OTA LEADERSHIP INDEX

DJ Mormile

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R&B Money

ARCHETYPE

The Orchestrator

Scaling people and moving parts into one working whole.

DJ Mormile reads as The Orchestrator because his influence has always been routed through relationships rather than credit. Championing Black Eyed Peas from a dorm room, threading Polo G into the Interscope ecosystem, and persuading Jimmy Iovine to re-sign Timbaland by reading the room in Miami are not scattered wins.

IN THEIR WORDS, WHY ORCHESTRATOR

I kind of became like the therapist at Interscope — the person who could thread the line and help things move forward because I was able to help people get their ideas and get their artists across the finish line without feeling like I needed to bogart it.

ON HIS ROLE INSIDE INTERSCOPE

If I believe in something, my whole career is based on believing in artists and songs and writers and producers and arguing with them till I'm out of breath. But the second we leave that room, we are a united front.

ON HIS MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY

I never worked with anyone on purpose in my business that I didn't know very well. Everything was like a derivative of something — a relationship built first.

ON HOW HE BUILDS HIS CLIENT ROSTER

R&B MONEY

R&B Money: “DJ Mormile”

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