Adam Shomer and Eric Nguyen lead M&A and business development at Create Music Group (CMG), one of the fastest-growing music and entertainment companies, recently valued at over $1 billion. Shomer, a former Sony-signed artist and indie label owner, now serves as CMG’s VP of Business Development, spearheading over $100M in M&A outreach and expanding key verticals like sync and neighbouring rights. In 2023, he brought on Nguyen — formerly with SOCAN and KPMG — as SVP of M&A and Corporate Development. Since joining, Nguyen has helped deploy more than $200M in acquisitions of Enhanced and Ostereo, and played a central role in CMG’s $165M investment from Flexpoint Ford. One of the most eye-catching acquisitions was for the catalogue of electronic music star deadmau5 in addition to the catalogue of the electronic producer’s longstanding label, mau5trap. CMG has also entered into a deal to form a joint venture to release future recordings from deadmau5 and mau5trap, working with the Canadian producer. CMG now boasts 30 billion monthly streams and a roster that includes Marshmello, Ice Spice and rising Canadian-Punjabi talent via the newly launched World Records.