Kautz Launches Bespoke Consultancy
• Veteran music industry executive Andrew Kautz announces the launch of his new Nashville-based firm, Kautz & Associates, which he describes as “a bespoke consulting practice, advising a small number of hand-selected private clients as they navigate not only the music industry but the ever-changing opportunities and challenges that technology and progress present.”
Kautz & Associates will offer clients “real availability and candid counsel drawn from decades spent at the operational heart of this business, including label operations, publishing, distribution, royalties, catalog, rights, finance, business development, and mergers-&-acquisitions.” Kautz added, “This isn’t a firm built for volume — it’s built for depth.”
Kautz most recently served as President of Strategy & Operations for HYBE Label Service. His career began at Nashville’s Emerald Sound Studios in 1989, where he worked his way up from college intern to Chief Operating Officer. In 2005, Scott Borchetta brought him on as the first hire at Big Machine, where over the next two decades, they built it into the world’s most successful independent record label, with Kautz serving as General Manager, Chief Operating Officer, and ultimately, President of Label Operations.
“The music business has never been more complex, and it has never been more full of opportunity,” Kautz said. “The next decade of this industry will be shaped as much by technology as by talent. That counsel extends to the decisions leaders are facing right now. At Kautz & Associates, clients are labels, founders, and investors, as well as artists and their teams. All of them get the same thing: my full attention. I look forward to helping a select few make the most of it.”
Kautz can be contacted at andrew@kautz.llc. [Photo Courtesy of Andrew Kautz]
