Jay Sures

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Jay Sures
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Sures in 2022
Born (1966-11-02) November 2, 1966 (age 57)
NationalityAmerican
Education University of California, Los Angeles
Employer United Talent Agency
Title Vice Chairman
Board member of Regents of the University of California
SpouseLinda Nyvltova [1]
Children3

Jay Sures (born 1966) is an American entertainment industry executive and talent agent, currently serving as vice chairman of United Talent Agency.

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Early life and education

Born in 1966 [2] [3] in Canada, Sures was raised in Los Angeles. [4] He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he has also served as an assistant visiting professor for the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. [5]

Career

Sures' career with United Talent Agency (UTA) began with the establishment of the agency in 1991, where he worked in the mailroom and assisted co-founder Peter Benedek. [5] [6] [7] He became a talent agent when UTA first formed, [8] and was promoted to partner in 1998. [9] Sures joined the board of directors in 2003. [8] He and David Kramer held managing director roles starting in 2010, [6] [10] and both became co-presidents in September 2017. [6] [10] Sures was named vice chairman of UTA in September 2022. [11] Sures is also a co-founder of the UTA Foundation, the agency's non-profit organization. [5]

Sures leads the agency's news, broadcast and television divisions, [6] as well as the acquired Greater Talent Network speakers division. [5] [7] [10] He began managing UTA's news and broadcast division after leading the agency's 2014 acquisition of N.S. Bienstock. [5] [12] [13]

Sures was appointed to the Television Academy's Executive Committee in 2014, [14] and inducted into Broadcasting & Cable 's Hall of Fame in 2016. [15]

Throughout his career, Sures has represented Fareed Zakaria, David Muir, Anderson Cooper, Bret Baier, Norah O'Donnell, Margaret Brennan, Jen Psaki, [16] Jake Tapper, [17] Chuck Todd, Elizabeth Vargas, Jenna Hager Bush, Chuck Lorre, Steve Levitan, Darrren Star, and Larry Wilmore, among others. [5] [18]

Sures led contract negotiations between United Talent Agency and the Writers Guild of America. Focusing primarily on a practice known as packaging, the impasse resulted in a lawsuit and WGA members firing their agents in April 2019. [19] [20] After months of backchannel negotiations, [21] Sures announced that United Talent Agency had reached an agreement with the Writer's Guild, becoming the first major talent agency to do so. [21]

Beginning in 2016, Sures has hosted an annual party in Washington, D.C., the night before the White House Correspondents Dinner that blends the worlds of politics, entertainment and media. [22]

In September 2023, Sures was named chairman of the board of Triad National Security, which manages the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He also serves as Chairman of the board of governors that oversees the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Both labs are managed in part by the University of California and the Department of Energy. [23]

In October 2023, Sures in his role as a UC regent, publicly rebuked the UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council request that UC leaders retract their statement declaring the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel “an act of terrorism…that deserves and requires our collective condemnation.” [24] In November, the UC Regents committed $7 million to emergency mental health services, programs focused on better understanding antisemitism and Islamophobia, and training for faculty and staff on how to navigate their roles as educators. [25]


Personal life

Sures is a political activist and a longtime supporter of the Democratic Party. [12] In 2016, he hosted a fundraiser for Senator Tim Kaine, then Hillary Clinton's selection for vice president in the U.S. presidential election. [26] [27] Earlier in the race, he had supported Joe Biden. [28] He pledged his support for Democratic candidate Gavin Newsom in California's 2018 gubernatorial race. [29]

Sures joined the Entertainment Industry Foundation's board of directors in 2008. [30] [31] Sures was appointed to the Regents of the University of California [32] in January 2019 by former Governor Jerry Brown. He was reappointed for a 12-year term by Governor Gavin Newsom in 2020. [33]

In January 2019, it was announced that Sures, along with Rande Gerber and his spouse Cindy Crawford, Michael Meldman, and Jeff Shell would purchase the iconic Hollywood deli, Nate ‘n Al, to keep its doors open after three generations of family ownership. [34]

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