Jed Root
{{Short description|American businessman}}
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Jed Root{{Cite web |date=2014-11-13 |title=Jed Root |url=https://www.designscene.net/jed-root |access-date=2022-12-26 |website=DSCENE |language=en-US}} is an American businessman, and founder of Jed Root Inc, an artist management agency founded in 1989{{Cite web |date=2017-04-06 |title=Creative Agency Jed Root Could Face Lawsuit Over Pay Owed to Artists |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/style/jed-root-could-face-lawsuit-payment-owed-artists-991709/ |access-date=2022-12-26 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}}{{Cite web |title=Jed Root Inc - Company Profile and News |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0630122D:US |access-date=2022-12-26 |website=Bloomberg.com |language=en}}{{cite web|last=Gabriele|first=Amanda|title=Agent Provocateur: Jed Root Of Jed Root, Inc.|url=http://lookbooks.com/marketplace/lookbooks-interviews/news/agent-provocateur-jed-root-of-jed-root-inc|work=Lookbooks|accessdate=3 June 2013}}
Early life
Root moved to New York City in 1981. He began his career in fashion with temporary jobs as an assistant to hair stylists, makeup artists, and wardrobe stylists. After five years of freelance work, he became an agent for three years at Name Model Management, a boutique modeling agency.{{cite web|last=Yoon|first=Ryan|title=Jed Root Exclusive interview|url=http://www.thegroundmag.com/jed-root/|work=Work Magazine|accessdate=3 June 2013}}
Initially working from his apartment in East Village in 1989, Jed Root, Inc. eventually had over 50 employees and offices in New York, Los Angeles, London,{{Cite web |title=Creative Agency Jed Root Could Face Lawsuit Over Pay Owed to Artists |url=https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/creative-agency-jed-root-could-face-lawsuit-over-195103599.html |access-date=2022-12-26 |website=uk.movies.yahoo.com |language=en-GB}} Paris, Tokyo, and Manila representing over 200 individuals.{{Cite web |title=Jed Root {{!}} BoF 500 {{!}} The People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry |url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/amp/community/people/jed-root |access-date=2022-12-26 |website=www.businessoffashion.com}}
History of Global Offices
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In 1998 he formed an alliance with Chisato Kohno Management of Tokyo as a satellite office. In 2000 he assembled Jed Root Europe in Paris, and in 2006 Jed Root Limited in London. In 2005 he created a syndication department for the license and resale of photography and illustration, and in 2009 added fashion illustrators and prop and set stylists to his roster. In 2010, Root created Root Management, a modeling and talent agency in New York City. Soon after, he opened Jed Root Los Angeles, Inc. in the Luckman Plaza building on Sunset Boulevard, which focuses primarily on hair stylists, make up artists, manicurists, wardrobe stylists, and set designers.{{Cite web |last=Medina |first=Marcy |date=2012-04-12 |title=Jed Root and Tracy Christian Form Boutique Talent Agency |url=https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/company-takes-root-5853903/ |access-date=2022-12-26 |website=WWD |language=en-US}}
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