EXCLUSIVE: A WME agent who beforehand performed a pivotal function within the launch of Joe Sugg and Caspar Lee’s MVE is shifting to the UK company.
Matthew Harvey is becoming a member of MVE after eight years at WME to tackle a Expertise Director function.
At WME, Harvey repped the likes of Tilly Ramsay, Emma Bunton, Nigel Ng and Afua Hirsch, the latter of whom he continues to handle, with new signings set to be introduced quickly. Previous to WME, the veteran agent ran his personal boutique company, MHA Administration, working with expertise that included Ricky Gervais, Tim Minchin and Katherine Ryan.
As agent to MVE co-founders Sugg and Lee, Harvey performed a pivotal function within the launch of what was then Margravine Administration (now MVE) throughout his time at WME. MVE represents expertise primarily within the digital house.
Minnie Harding, Head of Expertise UK and Dean Ondrus-Coulson, Senior Vice President at MVE, stated Harvey’s hiring “alerts our continued curiosity in hybrid expertise who blur the strains between digital affect and mainstream success.”
Harvey added: “This can be a uncommon alternative to assist form the following period of expertise illustration.”
MVE has been busy hiring in latest months, bringing within the likes of Expertise Director Meisha Kelly from InterTalent. The company has additionally been co-signing expertise with WME of late together with Love Island star Uma Jammeh and TikTok creator Ellie Evelyn.
At present has seen an enormous shakeup of the UK company scene, with Deadline revealing in simply the previous jiffy that 4 of Hamilton Hodell’s 5 companions have moved to B-Aspect, taking expertise together with Naomi Ackie, Aaron Pierre, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Emilia Clarke with them.