A fourth generation Los Angeles native, Kirk attended New York’s historic Trinity-Pawling School before moving on to New York’s Hofstra University, where he attended business school with a concentration in Financial Accounting. After College he was a Financial Analyst and Royalty Analyst for both Sony and the Universal Music Group’s, taking part in the merger of Sony BMG in 2005 and Universal Music Group’s acquisition of Sanctuary Music (Elton John, Robert Plant, Black Sabbath, etc.) in 2007; as well as working closely with the catalogs of Interscope, Geffen and A&M at Universal and RCA at Sony.

In 2008 Jesse joined the William Morris Agency, now William Morris Endeavor Entertainment (WME), working on Commercial Endorsements and Agency Packaging for the Agency until 2015. Starting on the William Morris Agency side, he saw the merger and the seamless blending of the Endeavor Agency culture to form WME in 2009.  During his tenure in WME’s Commercial Endorsement Group he worked with such brands as L'Oreal, Unilever, Revlon, Procter & Gamble, Danone North America, Mars, and Aflac, to name a few. In WME’s Agency Packaging Group he worked with such networks as CBS, ABC, NBC, Viacom (MTV, VH1), A&E, etc.

In 2015, he moved from WME to German media conglomerate ProSieben’s Studio71, where he was Director of Content Packaging, helping build up the current digital network assets and transition them over to traditional media partnerships and long-term brand partnerships. From there he moved to WarnerMedia now Warner Bros. Discovery and AT&T owned Fullscreen Media, before coming to SME.

At SME, Jesse works with brands to help achieve their given goals while maintaining quality control on execution.