ABOUT

Established in 2014, Milk & Honey Music + Sports + Ventures is a 21st-century hybrid entertainment management company based in Los Angeles, New York, Nashville, Dallas and London with employees in 10 other states in America. The company was launched by Founder and President Lucas Keller, a 20-year veteran of the music industry who in 9 years has built one of the biggest global management companies for songwriters, producers, artists and athletes. Milk & Honey is a traditional management company for the music division, and an agency and marketing company on the sports side.

The company quickly became known as kings of the songwriter and producer management world, with a strong foundation of hit songs representing the people who make them. With over a billion albums sold in aggregate, run a finger down the Billboard Hot 100 in any given week and you’ll quickly find a song penned or produced by a Milk & Honey songwriter, from David Hodges to Oak Felder, Stuart Price to J. White Did It, Jamie Hartman to Andres Torres & Mauricio Rengifo, Jenna Andrews, and more.

Counting 1500 shows on tour in 2024, the company also represents artists in the electronic music space with DJs like Oliver Heldens Benny Benassi, Joel Corry and nearly 30 others managed out of both the US and London offices. The company’s clients have had some of the biggest global hits of the century, including Dua Lipa’s “Levitating,” BTS’ chart-topping “Butter,” Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber’s “Despacito,” James Arthur’s “Say You Won’t Let Go,” Christina Perri’s “A Thousand Years” “I Had Some Help" Post Malone / Morgan Wallen and many more with current records on the chart from David Guetta, Doechii, Doja Cat, Travis Scott, Morgan Wallen and more.

The sports division represents over 80 athletes in the NFL and Major League Baseball including Travis Kelce (Kansas City Chiefs), Courtland Sutton (Denver Broncos), Kamren Curl (Los Angeles Rams), Paris Johnson (Arizona Cardinals) and more.

Quickly approaching 50 employees, Milk & Honey is full service with in house A&R administration, brand marketing, day to day management, DSP promotion, content and creative direction, international strategy, financial literacy training, music catalog sales, synch licensing, sports agents and legal services, tour marketing, venture development, writer producer creative A&R, and more.

Since the pandemic, the company has sold over nine figures in publishing catalogs and are considered to be thought leaders in the sale of music rights. Just in the songwriter producer space, the company has a 15-person creative team.

Milk & Honey is a one stop shop for talent - Keller still categorizes the company as a mid-sized boutique and intends to keep that spirit as the company continues to expand in a strategic manner. Milk & Honey exports more songs to the international marketplace than any other songwriter producer management company and holds a record of 25 songs in the Spotify billion streamers club and had 10 Grammy nominations for the 2024 64th Grammy Awards®. Milk & Honey also launched Web3 properties with the Picasso estate.

The company is passionate and vocal about advocating for songwriter’s rights. Prior to founding Milk & Honey, Lucas Keller spent 5 years at Beverly Hills music/tv/film powerhouse, The Collective (a group who represented Linkin Park, Kanye West, Enrique Iglesias, Slash, Peter Gabriel and others) and staged come backs with legends like Jimmy Cliff and Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots.

In the past few years, Keller has been featured on the Billboard 40 Under 40, the Billboard Power 100, Billboard’s inaugural Top LGBTQ Executives List, Billboard 2024 Ballers in Music and Sports List, Variety New Leaders List 2022 and awarded the top 20 percentile on Inc Magazine’s fastest-growing privately held companies two years in a row.