Taylor Jones is the Founder & CEO of The Hello Group. He is an award-winning, multi-dimensional entertainment executive, manager, A&R, agent, songwriter, executive producer, creative director, and showrunner. Overseeing THG's entire 15 division-wide operations, Taylor is an experienced leader with strong expertise in business strategy, global marketing initiatives, and project management across talent management, music, tv/film, publishing, digital, live, web3, and tech. Taylor is globally recognized as an A&R Executive / Manager in the K-Pop genre having worked on and placed songs resulting in 40 Billboard #1s and 70+ gold & platinum certifications for artists including BTS, SuperM, Victon, KAI (Exo), THE9, NCT 127, ITZY, TWICE, IVE, Cravity, Girls Generation, WayV and more.
Taylor has represented winners of The Voice Kids, Pop Idol, Eurovision, The Masked Singer, I Can See Your Voice, The Four, and currently manages a prominent roster of influencers, artists, songwriters, and producers. Taylor's direct roster includes MTV EMA Winner Emma Heesters (Republic Records), teenage popstar Rosie McClelland from The Ellen Show, the UK's most followed prankster Kristen Hanby (35M followers), dance-DJ sensation Matt Steffanina (30M followers), and multi-platinum producer/writers Alawn (SuperM, Flo Rida, NCT 127), Andy Love (T.X.T, SuperM, Super Junior, Girls Generation), Dyson (BTS, Astrid S, Loud Luxury) and Carlos Battey (Justin Bieber, Madonna, Got7, Charlie Wilson) to name a few.
Taylor sits on the Executive Committee of City of Hope's 'Future Hope' board, is an Advisory Board member of music tech company LabelRadar, is an executive member of the Recording Academy (Grammys), and a member of Music Biz. Taylor was awarded Entertainment & Multimedia 'CEO of The Year' two years running at the Global CEO of Excellence Awards (2021 & 2022) and was listed by Yahoo Finance in the 'Top 10 Entrepreneurs U30 to watch in 2021'.