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BUSINESS GROWTH · SPORTS, ENTERTAINMENT, ENTERPRISE

I structure the partnerships that turn cultural investment into business outcomes.

Founder and Chief Experience Officer, Agency For Creatives. Fifteen years across institutional finance and enterprise partnerships.

Two of three engagements renewed into a second cycle.

Kirjuan "Free" Freeman. You see it, I achieve it.

Kirjuan Freeman, Founder and Chief Experience Officer of Agency For Creatives.
72andSunny
NFL
NBA
FIFA
Formula 1
Live Nation
Merrill
JPMorgan Chase
Bank of America Private Bank

Selected affiliations

Doc Rivers and Free seated together at Sport Beach during Cannes Lions
Cannes Lions, June 2026

You literally made my journey to Cannes Lions amazing. Thanks for everything. Best in class.

Doc Rivers

NBA Champion · Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame

The position

Brands spend heavily on culture and cannot defend the spend internally.

Athletes carry partnership value nobody has structured into a business.

Institutions need credibility they cannot purchase directly.

I sit between them. Not as a booking agent or a producer, but as the person who builds the structure: the deal, the room, the system that keeps producing after the event ends. My background is institutional finance, so the work survives a numbers conversation, not just a creative one.

Enterprises pay my fee. Talent is never charged.

PROOF

Proof of impact

CANNES LIONS 2026

The first head coach in Sport Beach history.

Doc Rivers and Free seated at Sport Beach
Sport Beach, Cannes Lions 2026

Four years of rosters built on athletes and broadcasters. No coaches. I architected, closed, and managed the placement of Doc Rivers into Coach's Corner, Indeed's leadership program at Sport Beach, activated with 72andSunny.

First
head coach in Sport Beach's four year history
First
activation of its kind for Indeed
6,343
attendee platform, 89 brands on stage
STATE PUBLIC HEALTH

Sold out in weeks. Renewed for a second cycle.

Free walking Kayshon Boutté through the convention center
Massachusetts Problem Gambling Conference, Springfield

Massachusetts needed to reach young men, the group most exposed to gambling harm and least responsive to public health messaging. I built the channel: three athletes across three sports with lived experience. Credibility with the audience was the selection criterion, not profile.

Sold out
in weeks, 500+ registered
Largest
conference of its kind in state history
Renewed
into FY27 with two athletes returning
LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

Venue of the year in seven months.

50 Cent performing on the Grace by Nia stage
Grace by Nia, Seaport

Grace by Nia opened in May 2023 into a saturated Boston market. As Head of VIP Talent I owned booking strategy and VIP program design, deciding not just who played but how each booking served the venue's positioning.

7 months
from opening night to Live Music Venue of the Year
3 awards
Boston Music Awards, Best of Boston, Eater Boston
All three
awarded for the live music

Full case detail available on request.

SERVICES

What I'm engaged to do

Partnership architecture

Enterprise to talent partnerships structured to survive legal, finance, and renewal.

  • Deal structuring
  • Contracting entity
  • Renewal architecture

Commercial strategy for cultural investment

Translating cultural spend into terms a finance function will accept.

  • Audience definition
  • Budget frameworks
  • Investment case

Institutional athlete placement

Matching athletes to institutional objectives rather than to bookings.

  • Talent sourcing
  • Procurement channel
  • Narrative stewardship

Live program architecture

Experiences engineered as business systems, not moments.

  • Program design
  • Platform curation
  • Festival talent architecture

Renewal and measurement advisory

The verdict on a partnership is whether it gets funded twice.

  • Success criteria
  • Cost per outcome frameworks
  • Renewal case

About

I build the rooms where creators, institutions, and outcomes meet.

I came up in institutional finance at Bank of America Private Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and Citizens Bank, where every recommendation had to survive a numbers conversation before it reached a client. I apply that discipline to a category that usually runs on instinct.

I started as a musician and I am a Berklee College of Music alumnus, which is why I can sit on both sides of the table. I know what a creative career costs, and I know what a CFO needs to see before approving the spend.

Free
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