About Sports
Happy Walters    |
Chief Executive Officer, Relativity Sports

Happy Walters has served as Relativity’s Co-President starting 2014 working alongside Tucker Tooley overseeing the company’s day-to-day operations, business divisions such as Music, Sports and Fashion as well as company personnel.  Prior to that Walters served as Relativity’s Co-Chief Operating Officer, helping to guide the company’s strategic direction.

Walters joined Relativity in 2008 as President of Relativity Music Group, bringing to the role more than 20 years of experience in a diverse array of entertainment disciplines including talent management, record-label ownership, film and television production, music distribution and publishing, music supervision and soundtrack production. He has supervised and created soundtracks for more than 60 films, including Immortals, The Fighter, Bridesmaids, Limitless, Brothers, Dear John, Spawn, There’s Something About Mary, Scream 2, American Pie, The Nutty Professor II, The Big Lebowski and Blade II.

Walters began his career in the early 1990s as owner and CEO of Buzztone Music, a management company representing recording artists. Later, he founded the independent record label Immortal Records, which launched and developed the careers of such seminal artists as Cypress Hill, House of Pain, Wu Tang Clan, Korn, Incubus, Rage Against the Machine, Velvet Revolver and Fleetwood Mac.

A certified NBA and NFL player agent, Walters also serves as CEO of Relativity Sports. The division, which was formed through the merger of Rogue Basketball, SFX Baseball and Maximum Football, ranks among the largest sports agencies in the United States. Walters has devoted a substantial part of his professional life to guiding and counseling pro athletes, participating in the management and negotiation of their team contracts in the U.S. and abroad, as well as shepherding their marketing and promotional activities. Athletes he represents include NBA stars Amar’e Stoudemire, Dwight Howard, Chandler Parsons, Monta Ellis, Jimmy Butler, Corey Brewer, DeJuan Blair, Maurice Harkless, Alonzo Gee, Bernard James, and Shane Larkin.

Josh
Swartz    |
President, Relativity Sports

Josh Swartz is President of Relativity Sports, managing the day-to-day operations of the division, one of the largest sports agencies in the United States. He also oversees strategy for the agency, including future acquisitions, both in and out of the athlete-representation arena.

Swartz is also the Managing Partner of Diamond Ridge Ventures, a sports and sports-media-focused investment fund sponsored primarily by the Bechtel family. It holds equity positions in a variety of properties, including Hong Kong-based Legend FC, a mixed martial arts promotional tournament, and Superheat Games, a skateboard-themed trading-card game featured on MTV Networks’ Street League Skateboarding.

Previously, Swartz served as Chief Operating Officer of Wasserman Media Group (WMG) for eight years. He was responsible for overseeing and negotiating WMG’s overall strategic opportunities and operations, including business development, communications and acquisitions. Swartz was also charged with handling all corporate governance matters for both WMG and the Los Angeles Avengers, an Arena Football League franchise. During his tenure, WMG grew to become one of the largest sports marketing agencies in the country, with clients and offices in Europe, Asia and North and South America.

Prior to joining WMG, Swartz served as special counsel for the Independent Committee of the Board of Directors of National Golf Properties (NGP), a publicly traded real estate investment trust that owned and operated more than 200 golf courses in the U.S. Representing shareholder interests, the Committee identified and managed a competitive process to privatize the business resulting in an acquisition led by Goldman Sachs and Starwood Capital for over $1 billion.

Before his work with NGP, Swartz served as general counsel for IFILM, a pioneering online video entertainment destination. While there, he managed all business affairs, as well as contract negotiations and relationships with such partners as Microsoft, Sony Pictures and Yahoo! He also helped facilitate the sale of IFILM to MTV Networks. Swartz holds a B.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.


About Sports

Relativity Sports, a division of Relativity Media, is one of the largest professional sports agencies in the world, providing more than 300 NBA, NFL and MLB athletes with services ranging from contract negotiation to custom film and television content production. Relativity Sports and its agents have negotiated contracts totaling in excess of $2.5 billion. Led by Relativity’s Chief Operating Officer, Happy Walters, and Relativity Sports President, Josh Swartz, Relativity Sports is the only sports management agency that is a division of a global entertainment company, offering athletes direct access to the studio’s extensive film, television and digital properties. This combination of sports business knowledge and unparalleled entertainment expertise allows Relativity Sports to create professional opportunities as unique as each athlete. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Relativity Sports also has offices in Chicago, Indianapolis, Washington D.C. and Miami.

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