Arash Pournouri

Arash Pournouri, (born 28 August 1981 in Iran) is an Iranian-Swedish record manager, record producer, songwriter and record executive. While he is most known as the former manager for Avicii, their artist-manager relationship ended in December 2016.[1] Arash is also known for co-writing the lyrics to Cazzette's song, “Beam Me Up”.[2] He owns the music label PRMD and the booking agency At Night Management.[2][3] He appeared in the documentary film Avicii: True Stories.[4]

In 2014, Pournouri was awarded as MVP (Most Valuable Person) at the Denniz Pop Awards founded by Denniz Pop.[5]

He along with Spotify founder Daniel Ek are the creators of the tech convention Symposium.[4] Pournouri studied law in high school and has also owned and run several restaurant and bars in Norway and arranged club nights in Stockholm.[2] On 9 July 2015 he was the presenter for Sommar i P1 on Sveriges Radio.[2] He is one of the founders of Brilliant Minds.[6] In 2018, he along with Brilliant Minds arraigned a conference at Grand Hotel in Stockholm where Barack Obama attended.[6] In 2019, Arash became part owner of the video platform Triller.[7]

References
  1. "Aviciis manager bemöter Tommy Körbergs kritik". Aftonbladet. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  2. Billboard. "Arash "Ash" Pournouri". Archived from the original on 25 December 2016. Retrieved 26 Dec 2016.
  3. "DagensPS.se – Avicii-geniets tabbe: "Ville bara att de skulle konka"". Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  4. "Symposium-grundaren talar ut om tiden innan "Aviciis" bortgång". Breakit. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  5. "Archived copyASH | Denniz Pop Awards". www.dennizpopawards.com. Archived from the original on 26 April 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  6. "Hjärnorna bakom Brilliant Minds". Expressen. Archived from the original on 2 October 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  7. "Aviciis ex-manager backar Tik Tok-utmanare". 20 December 2019. Archived from the original on 21 December 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.


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