CAA has announced the formation of leadership groups of managing directors and an agency board to support CAA co-Chairman and CEO Bryan Lourd, co-Chairmen Kevin Huvane and Richard Lovett and President Jim Burtson.

Managing directors, who will work alongside executive leadership on a wide range of strategic business and operational matters, include Rob Light, Howard Nuchow, Joe Cohen, Michael Levine, Joel Lubin, Maha Dakhil, Chris Silbermann, Tiffany Ward and Paul Danforth. CFO Carol Sawdye and Chief Legal Officer Hilary Krane continue to serve in their leadership roles.

The agency board will work with the CAA co-chairmen and president to bolster the company’s culture and ethic of client service. Among other areas, it will focus on organizational excellence, state-of-the-art dealmaking, training and development and sustained innovation.

CAA Music's Rob Light, Emma Banks and Jeff Krones

Agency board members include Katie Anderson, Emma Banks, Lorrie Bartlett, Matt Blake, Alan Braun, Austin Brown, William Brown, Libby Bush, Ben Dey, Jaime Feld, John Garvey, Liz Gray, Sloan Harris, Jeff Krones, Franklin Latt, Brandon Lawrence, Michelle Kydd Lee, Joe Machota, Lisa Joseph Metelus, Matthew O’Donohoe, Praveen Pandian, Dan Rabinow, Rachel Rusch, Roeg Sutherland, Nick Thimm, Natalie Tran and Ida Ziniti.

“Today’s announcement highlights not only the strength, momentum, breadth and depth of today’s CAA but the incredibly exciting promise of our future, with two new teams of exceptionally talented, proven leaders, committed to serving our clients and colleagues,” said Lourd.

In related news, HITS has also appointed a board of managers to focus on organizational excellence. You can imagine how that worked out.