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Troy Carter

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Troy Carter is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Coalition Media Group. He manages multi-platinum Grammy award winner Lady Gaga, among other recording artists. Coalition is a talent management and full-service film and television production company. Carter began his career in Philadelphia working for Will Smith and James Lassiter’s Overbrook Entertainment. In 1995 he joined Bad Boy Entertainment where he worked in the marketing department under Sean “Diddy” Combs, with artists such as Notorious B.I.G. Carter formed the boutique urban talent management company, Erving Wonder, in 1999.

Erving Wonder quickly became one of the preeminent artist management firms, representing hip-hop / R&B stars Eve, Floetry, and Nelly, among others. In 2004 Erving Wonder was acquired by the Sanctuary Group. Carter formed Coalition Media Group in 2007, where he continues to successfully grow his company and their roster.

Milestones

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  Troy Carter added a position as CEO + Founder at Atom Factory.
  Posted 1/17/12 at 9:33pm
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  Troy Carter added a position as Co-Founder at Backplane. (1/1/11)
  Posted 6/21/11 at 3:59pm
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  Troy Carter added a position as Founder at Erving Wonder.
  Posted 3/26/11 at 2:04pm
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  Troy Carter added a position as Executive VP at Sanctuary.
  Posted 3/26/11 at 2:04pm
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  Troy Carter invested in LaunchRock. (11/8/11)
  Posted 11/8/11 at 7:19pm via techcrunch.com
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  Troy Carter invested in Turntable.fm. (9/13/11)
  Posted 7/8/11 at 1:22am via techcrunch.com
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  Troy Carter invested in Enflick. (10/19/11)
  Posted 10/19/11 at 5:39pm via techcrunch.com
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  Troy Carter invested in Shaker. (10/1/11)
  Posted 10/9/11 at 4:42pm via techcrunch.com
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  Troy Carter — Joined Ecomom as an investor. (12/10/11)
  Posted 12/12/11 at 2:38pm via techcrunch.com
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  Troy Carter — Joined Uber as an investor. (12/6/11)
  Posted 12/12/11 at 2:38pm
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  Troy Carter — Joined Uber as an investor. (12/6/11)
  Posted 12/7/11 at 9:15am
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  Troy Carter — Joined Launch Rock as an investor. (11/9/11)
  Posted 11/9/11 at 6:51am via techcrunch.com
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  Troy Carter — Joined Warby Parker as an investor. (9/20/11)
  Posted 9/30/11 at 10:13am
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  Troy Carter — Joined Moat as an investor (8/15/12)
  Posted 8/24/11 at 7:19pm
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  Troy Carter — Joined turntable.fm as an investor (8/3/11)
  Posted 8/12/11 at 4:40am
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  Troy Carter — Joined bre.ad as an investor. (5/1/11)
  Posted 7/21/11 at 5:07am via techcrunch.com

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11. LaunchRock Gets $800K In Funding, Launches (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. Enflick Raises $1M From Freestyle Capital, Menlo Talent Fund, Lady Gaga And Bieber’s Managers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. Turntable.fm Closes That $7 Million Round, Fred Wilson Joins Board (techcrunch.com) [edit]