ATC Group is the only independently owned company in the industry housing talent management, live booking, livestreaming and talent services within the same group

Top 10

global ranked
live and management
agencies

70 +

management
artists

500 +

live
clients

c. 1 m

livestream tickets
sold since June
2020

33 %

rev growth
in FY22

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About us

Founded in 1996, ATC was initially formed as a boutique ticketing and marketing business. The company then expanded beyond those areas to become focused on the management of music artists before expanding into other complementary music industry areas over the last few years. 

The Group’s growth has accelerated in recent years with a substantial increase in revenue. In addition, the business in the USA has expanded and new offerings including Driift have been developed. 

The Group is headquartered in London, with offices in Los Angeles, New York and Copenhagen. ATC Group Plc is led by an experienced management team who have operated across multiple music industry sectors. The Group’s established, long-standing client base, combined with innovative new offerings, give the Directors confidence that the Group is well positioned to capitalise on the opportunities emerging from a disrupted music industry.

The Board

Adam Driscoll

Adam Driscoll CEO

Adam has a wealth of experience running and managing music and entertainment related businesses, both public and private. He acquired his first business in 1994, floating it as A4 Holdings plc on OFEX in 1996.

He founded and floated channelfly.com plc on AIM in 1999. Following a management buy-out in 2003 the company returned to AIM in 2005 as MAMA Group with Adam as Co-CEO. The company grew to become a leading music business before being sold to HMV Group in 2010.

Adam served on the boards of Chrysalis PLC and Pulse Films Limited and more recently has led a number of other businesses including Vision Nine and Punchdrunk.

Brian Message

Brian Message Executive Co-Chair
Co-Founder

Brian has worked in the music industry for over 25 years having originally trained and qualified as a chartered accountant. Brian worked at EMI, and then Courtyard management which manages Radiohead.

He set up the Group’s artist management business in 2001 with Craig Newman and remains co-manager on several of ATC Management’s artists including Nick Cave, Johnny Marr and PJ Harvey. In addition, he oversees the Group’s Polyphonic business and established Driift with Ric Salmon in 2020.

Outside of the Group, he is Chairman of fashion house, the ‘Vampires Wife’, and Chairman of the ACES multi-academy trust.

Craig Newman

Craig Newman Executive Co-Chair
Co-Founder

Craig has over 30 years of experience in the music industry. He founded ATC originally as A Ticketing Company in 1996. He was co-manager of several ATC Management artists and also a partner in Courtyard management alongside Brian Message. Craig established the Group’s North American business in 2013 and continues to play an active role in the Group’s US operations.

Andy Glover

Andy Glover Senior Independent NED

Andy qualified as a chartered accountant and spent 12 years at PwC before joining Wagon plc as group chief accountant for two years. He was as an audit partner with Ernst & Young from 1996 to 2018. He handled an extensive portfolio of middle market clients, including some in the music industry, all undergoing significant change and was EY’s most experienced mid-market audit partner in London.

From 2007 to 2015, Andy chaired EY’s mid-market non-executive director program. He also presented on the Financial Times NED program during this time and has extensive experience of working with audit committees and Boards. Andy is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Rameses

Rameses Villanueva CFO

Rameses has extensive experience in senior finance roles across the globe. Most recently he held the position of Group CFO at classical music label Naxos Music Group for c.14 years and was a Director of its US-based subsidiary, North America Classical Company, Inc., concurrently for the last four. Previously, Rameses was Group Senior Vice-President for Finance at the SgT Group of Companies from 2006 to 2008, following a five year period in the role of Vice President for Finance & Admin at Paragon Travel Limited. Rameses qualified as a Certified Public Accountant in 1994 and a Certified Management Accountant in 2005. He holds an MBA from the Ateneo Graduate School of Business.

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Emma Stoker Executive Director

Following qualifying as a solicitor in 2004, after training at a leading media and entertainment law practice, Emma worked in private practice as a litigator for 10 years, principally in the music industry. Her clients included major record labels, publishers, executives, songwriters, performers and managers.  Emma joined ATC Group in 2016 when she was appointed Director of Business Affairs (sole counsel), working as a key member of the senior leadership team overseeing all business and legal affairs of the Group. Emma became an Executive Director of the Company in November 2023.

Strategy

The Directors are developing the Group’s model to provide a fully integrated service empowering creators and artists to build optimum commercial structures to generate increased revenues and profits.

As it houses numerous services within one Company, the relationship between Group and artist can evolve such that the artist is engaged across multiple Group offerings, fostering a genuine ‘creative/business partnership’.

The music industry remains a multi-billion dollar growth market and is forecast to see a sustained period of rapid growth, according to a Goldman Sachs report. Further, in the Director’s opinion the music industry remains fragmented in the mid-market, offering the opportunity to build a significant business through growth and acquisition.

Key Strengths

The Directors believe that the Group’s range of service offerings and strategy of developing ever deeper business relationships with artists through integrated investment, high-level service provision and long-term career planning will be a driver for substantial growth for the Group over the coming years. Supporting this ambition is the Group’s key strengths which can be summarised as follows:

Strong and experienced Board and management team, aligned with shareholders

Long-standing industry connections and networks, recognised by leading brands

Broad portfolio of clients and longevity of relationships

Attractive mix of products, solutions and ethos

Commitment to innovation instilled through a creative leadership team

Attractively positioned in a fragmented and disrupted market

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Our Services

ATC is a business capable of offering a wide spectrum of commercial interaction with performing artists. The Group’s five key business divisions are:

ATC Management

ATC Management represents a broad roster of artists out of the Group’s European and USA offices. It provides a full range of management services and consciously seeks to develop an entrepreneurial, collaborative and artist-centric culture.

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ATC Live

ATC Live is a live event booking agency for artists. It has built its reputation on finding and breaking the very best artists performing today and aims to guide the careers of its artists with a strong level of creative and strategic thinking.

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Live Streaming: Driift

Driift is part of a new format, merging streaming and live ticketed events. Driift presents artists with an end-to-end solution for their livestream requirements. This channel allows artists to complement their traditional touring strategy and income streams and the Group believes this new format will have a long-term effect on music consumption. ATC Group Plc has a 32.5% equity ownership of Driift.

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Live Streaming: Flymachine

ATC Group Plc owns 5.4% of Flymachine, a VC-backed livestreaming platform with a focus on communal and social interaction.

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ATC Services

This encompasses a range of offerings that the Group can provide to both its own management clients and to third parties.

Services include:

US electronic music promotions: Your Army

Synchronisation agency for music placement in film, tv and advertisements: Familiar Music Group

Technology solutions for digital development and distribution: Namethemachine

ATC Experience

This division has been launched to create and distribute artist-led digital and in-person experiences for global audiences.  

Led by Despina Tsatsas, an experienced theatre producer and creative leader, the division is designed to keep pace with today’s artists as they develop new formats to meet and inspire their audiences.  

The establishment of ATC Experience is a direct response to the changing commercial and creative models developing globally across the live entertainment sector. It represents a new opportunity to drive incremental revenue growth for the Group via co-commission, co-production, investment and partnership strategies.