Milk & Honey Music + Sports was launched in 2014 by Founder and President Lucas Keller, who in 10 years has built one of the leading global management companies representing the top songwriters and producers in the world with nearly 80 clients in the space.  The company also represents 30 DJs, some of which are on the top 25 grossing list like Oliver Heldens, Benny Benassi and others.  The company had well over 1000 shows booked in 2023, and the artist management department continues to expand.  Keller and his sports agency represent 20 athletes in the NFL and another 20 in Major League Baseball.  With a staff approaching 40 people, he currently has offices in Los Angeles, London and Dallas, with employees in New York, Sydney, Nashville, Las Vegas and Phoenix.

Milk & Honey boasts over a billion albums sold within its roster across the pop, hip hop, R&B, rock, country, latin and electronic charts and have 25 songs in the Spotify billion streamers club.  Over the past 4 years, Keller has sold over 9 figures in music publishing assets, and his company are considered to be experts in the world of valuing and brokering music rights deals.  The company continues to have hits currently with Travis Scott, Doja Cat, Morgan Wallen, the Charli XCX hit from the Barbie soundtrack and this month another #1 song with Doechii’s “What It Is.”  Keller’s clients have 10 Grammy nominations for the upcoming 2024 64th Grammy Awards.  

The company exports more songs to the international marketplace than any other songwriter producer management company in the world.  The group’s clients have had some of the biggest global hits of the century, including Dua Lipa’s “Levitating,” BTS’ chart-topping “Butter,” Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber’s “Despacito,” James Arthur’s “Say You Won’t Let Go,” Christina Perri’s “A Thousand Years” and many more.  In 2022, Keller launched Milk & Honey Labs which quickly signed blue chip brand like the Picasso estate, and Chuck Norris as a digital creative studio focusing on web 3 properties.  The company’s football division represents athletes like Courtland Sutton (Denver Broncos), Kamren Curl (Washington Commanders), Tyson Bagent (Chicago Bears) and more.  Keller’s third prong of the Milk & Honey business is building ventures in partnership with clients.  To date, the group has built multiple companies that have been sold, with many more in development.

Prior to founding Milk & Honey, Lucas Keller spent 5 years at Beverly Hills music/tv/film powerhouse, The Collective (a group who represented Linkin Park, Kanye West, Enrique Iglesias, Slash, Peter Gabriel and others) and won a Grammy with come-backs with legends like Jimmy Cliff and Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots.  In the past few years, Keller has been featured on the Billboard 40 Under 40, the Billboard Power 100, Billboard’s inaugural Top LGBTQ Executives List, Variety New Leaders List 2022 and awarded the top 20 percentile on Inc Magazine’s fastest-growing privately held companies two years in a row.