Range Media Partners

A week after their high-profile exits, agents who represented A-list clients ranging from Michael Bay and Margot Robbie to Zac Efron and Tiffany Haddish have launched Range Media Partners, a new management and brand development company. Dave Bugliari, Mackenzie Condon Roussos, Rich Cook, Michael Cooper, Susie Fox, Sandra Kang, Rachel Kropa, Chelsea McKinnies, Peter Micelli, Lucinda Moorhead, Mick Sullivan and Jack Whigham, who left agencies CAA, UTA, and WME, are the founding partners in the new company. New York-based manager Byron Wetzel also joined last week. The initial focus will be on film and television talent, but the company said Wednesday that an additional founding member who will lead a music division will be announced soon. While having financial backing from Micelli, who recently led strategy at production company Entertainment One and was key in the company’s multibillion-dollar acquisition deal by Hasbro, Range also has a substantial minority investment led by Point72 Ventures, the early-stage venture capital firm founded by Steve Cohen. Other backers include former New York Knicks coach David Fizdale, former Microsoft chief marketing officer Mich Mathews-Spradlin, and Grubhub founder and CEO Matt Maloney.