Veteran Sotheby's and Entertainment Executive
David
Goodman
Appointed CEO; Antiques
Roadshow Appraiser and The Collectors Lab Founder Laura
Woolley Named Head of Consignments & Appraisals; Erica
Ollwerther Joins as Head of Client Experience & Digital
Julien's Auctions Founders Darren Julien and Martin Nolan Will Continue to
Lead Auction Business Operations and Acquisitions
LOS ANGELES, March 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Julien's Auctions
today announced a series of additions to its senior leadership,
bringing in highly experienced executives to work alongside
Darren Julien and Martin Nolan and their team, to build on
Julien's Auctions' success as the world's leading music,
entertainment and Hollywood
auction house and further expand the business.
The new executives include:
- David Goodman, a top C-suite
executive at global brands, Sotheby's, CBS and Madison Square Garden, has been appointed Chief
Executive Officer. Goodman has served as consultant to Julien's
leadership since May 2023.
- Laura Woolley, one of the
auction industry's leading appraisers including on the acclaimed
PBS series Antiques Roadshow will serve as Managing
Director, Head of Consignments & Appraisals. Woolley began
her career at Sotheby's and brings nearly two decades of experience
running her own appraisal company The Collectors' Lab. She returns
to Julien's after working with the company for many years and
served as its first COO.
- Sotheby's veteran Erica
Ollwerther has been named Managing Director, Head of Client
Experience and Digital Transformation. She served as Sotheby's
Senior Vice President of Global Product Management and Head of
Client Experience at TheKey. She has been working with Goodman as a
strategic adviser to Julien's.
- Darren Julien, co-founder of
Julien's and its former President and CEO, and Martin Nolan, co-founder and longtime Chief
Financial Officer, will continue to oversee Julien's auction
business practices and acquisitions of its world-class
collections, serving as Executive Directors.
The Company also announced that Geller, a wealth management
firm that provides family office and strategic advisory services to
ultra-high-net worth individuals and their families, businesses and
nonprofit institutions, and its founder, Martin Geller, have assembled and are part of an
investment group that has invested in Julien's, providing new
capital and management expertise to drive its next stage of growth.
Mr. Julien and Mr. Nolan, who founded Julien's Auctions twenty
years ago, continue to have stakes in the business. In connection
with the investment, Geller will serve as the outsourced CFO
of Julien's, with Frank Aldridge, a
highly experienced finance executive at Geller leading the Julien's
finance team.
Mr. Julien said, "As we celebrate two decades in the
Hollywood auction business, it is
clear that our company is positioned for ongoing growth due to the
excitement among collectors for one-of-a-kind items from legendary
artists and celebrities. In order to harness this opportunity, we
are expanding our work with an exceptional group of executives,
including our new CEO David Goodman,
one of the auction world and entertainment industry's top
strategists and innovators, Laura
Woolley, who has worked with us since our earliest days on
some of our highest-profile auctions, and Erica Ollwerther, whose deep experience in
elevating the client experience and digital transformation will be
enormously valuable going forward. We are also thrilled to have
Marty Geller and his organization
playing a significant role in our next stage of growth. With this
extremely talented team on board, I am more excited than ever about
the future of Julien's."
Mr. Goodman said, "Throughout my years in the industry, I
have admired Julien's and the following it has built as the premier
player in the music, entertainment and Hollywood auction business. As we look ahead,
we could not have a better team in place of both current and new
leaders to build off of Julien's unique place in the business and
take it to its next level of success by elevating the client
experience, digitally transforming the business for the future, and
continuing to drive audience expansion. The initial steps we have
made have been very well received, and there is much more to
come."
Mr. Geller said, "In the Hollywood and music auction business, Julien's
is second-to-none. Having known Darren
Julien well and followed the business closely for many
years, Julien's Auctions' potential has always been evident. The
talented leadership and new shareholders the business has attracted
reflects this, and I look forward to Julien's exciting next chapter
of success."
Recent Successes and Record-Breaking Auctions
In their
roles as strategic advisors since mid-2023, Goodman, Woolley and
Ollwerther helped drive the company to one of their best years in
its two-decade history, including million-dollar sales of the most
legendary guitars in rock history, its first-ever series of music
auctions in Nashville and
Dallas, the launch of a new
website, record numbers of new registrants/bidders from around the
world, and three new world records that included the world record
sale of Princess Diana's
$1.1 million dress, which helped make
the "Hollywood Legends" auction its most successful entertainment
sale in Julien's history. In addition, for the first time, Julien's
held its annual "MusiCares® Charity Relief Auction"
as a webcast, available across multiple platforms, from the Grammy
Museum in Los Angeles on the day
of the awards ceremony, with iconic items donated by
Jon Bon Jovi, Taylor Swift, Christine
McVie, Harry Styles and
more. Julien's also opened its first exhibition in
Hong Kong to support marketing for
the upcoming March 28th auction of
property from Playboy Enterprises, Hugh
Hefner and Marilyn Monroe in
Los Angeles and announced the
auction of property from Tony Bennett
April 18th-19th in New
York.
Biographies and photos of Julien's leadership team can be found
here.
About Julien's Auctions
For the moments that
matter.
You know that moment when the lights dim, right before your
favorite band starts playing? Or that feeling right before the
credits roll on a movie that changed your whole world in an
instant? The air is charged with anticipation and words are never
going to do it justice because you just really had to be
there.
At Julien's, we exist to bring those moments back into your life
through iconic artifacts and one-of-a-kind collections. Whether
collaborating directly with artists, partnering with legendary
estates, or working closely with discerning collectors, our
auctions make culture pop with the promise of discovery and
reconnection. From Elvis Presley,
Marilyn Monroe, and Ringo Starr to Lady Gaga, Banksy, and Kurt
Cobain—from LA to the world, we are where originals find their
kind.
PRESS CONTACT
Mozell Miley-Bailey
(646) 653-3105
mozell@homagepr.com
info@juliensauctions.com
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