Built from theground up.Literally.

Jalen James Acosta slept on a park bench in Miami and called it his office. No money, no network, no plan B. His first shot came when he hosted the global launch of the Xbox for Microsoft. What he had was taste, nerve and a habit of walking into rooms he wasn't invited to. He built World Artists United out of that, one relationship at a time, until the rooms started calling him.

Over the years the group has worked with some of the biggest brands, names and companies in the world, from Microsoft and Ford to Avicii and Dwyane Wade, and has advised royal families and Fortune 100 boardrooms. None of it was handed to him, which is exactly why people trust him with what they can't afford to get wrong.

Dominican-American, born in Queens and raised between the Dominican Republic and Miami, he founded Beyond Cinema Studios in 2024 and is building MUSIC.INC, a rights and payments platform for music.

Rachel Lynn Karry grew up in Troy, Michigan on Motown and became the first in her family to finish college. She went into social work, then nonprofits, then a startup, and somewhere in the climb realized the thing missing from her life was music. In 2014 she met Jalen, saw what he was building before anyone else did, and never left.

As co-founder and president of World Artists United she runs the business so the creative can run, and she co-designed the Music Entrepreneur Conference, which started at Harvard and grew into a Microsoft Garage event powered by Live Nation Urban. Forbes called the two of them the co-founders closing the gap between creativity and business. She is the reason the gap stays closed.

She holds a master's in leadership and entrepreneurship from the University of San Diego.