PARTNER, MAVERICK MANAGEMENT
ADAM LEBER HAS LONG HELD on to what he calls an “oldschool mentality” — that “ representation is about the talent, not about yourself.” But when the company you work for, Maverick Management, collectively handles 40 of the biggest stars in music (Madonna, U2, Paul McCartney and Shania Twain among them) and is named manager of the year for 2016 at the Billboard Touring Awards (founder Guy Oseary accepted), a little celebration is certainly in order.
Leber, a Queens native who shares a roster with partner Larry Rudolph that includes Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, Steven Tyler and, as of January, Fifth Harmony, got his start running the street teams at hip-hop bastion Loud Records (“I was like an animal,” he boasts). That led him to manager Johnny…