Speaker Details
Bryan Lourd
Managing Partner, Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
Bryan Lourd is a Partner and Managing Director of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), an entertainment and sports agency based in Los Angeles, with offices in New York, London, Nashville, and Beijing. CAA represents many of the most successful professionals working in film, television, music, theatre, video games, sports, design, and the Internet, and provides a range of strategic marketing and consulting services to corporate clients. Mr Lourd represents many of the world's leading actors, actresses, directors, and producers.
A New Iberia, Louisiana native, Mr Lourd began his career as a page at CBS Studios before joining the William Morris Agency mailroom program in 1983, working his way up to agent. He moved to CAA in 1988.
Seven years later, in October 1995, Mr Lourd and his partners became the new owners of CAA. That same year, the partners created the CAA Foundation to further philanthropic efforts in the entertainment community and encourage organisations to lend their support to educational programmes. Mr Lourd helped create and currently co-chairs Project Angel Food's annual contemporary art fundraiser, Angel Art, benefiting those with HIV/AIDS and other serious illnesses.
Mr Lourd is a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities and is on the Board of InterActiveCorp (IAC). He attended the University of Southern California, earning degrees in Journalism and International Relations.
