Mark Gillespie, founder and CEO of Three Six Zero, is Techno House CDA Magazine’s Music Manager of the Month for September 2026, recognized for his long-standing influence on electronic music management, global artist development and the evolution of the modern music business.
From his early years working in the UK club industry to building Three Six Zero into an international entertainment company, Gillespie has spent more than two decades operating at the intersection of music, culture, business and artist development.
His latest chapter arrives in September 2026 with the announcement that Eric Prydz has joined Three Six Zero for management, bringing one of electronic music’s most distinctive artists into a company with a long history of developing globally recognized careers.
The move provides a timely reflection of Gillespie’s broader approach to management: building long-term structures around artists while adapting those structures to an increasingly global and multidisciplinary music industry.
From Club Culture to Global Management
Gillespie’s career began in the UK club world.
Before founding Three Six Zero, he worked with Godskitchen as a talent booker and Clubs Director between 1998 and 2006. The role placed him directly inside one of the most influential periods of British dance music, giving him experience in talent discovery, event programming and the operational side of large-scale nightlife.
That experience would become an important foundation for his later work.
Rather than approaching management solely from a traditional record-industry perspective, Gillespie developed his career around the broader ecosystem surrounding an artist: live performance, touring, branding, partnerships, recordings and international expansion.
In 2006, he founded Three Six Zero.
What began as a management company would eventually expand into a wider entertainment business working across music, publishing, recording, film and television.
Building Three Six Zero
Three Six Zero has grown into one of the recognizable independent entertainment companies associated with the global music business.
The company has worked with major artists across electronic music and beyond, while developing business operations that extend into recording, publishing and other areas of entertainment.
Three Six Zero’s current publishing operation, for example, partners with artists and songwriters across electronic and contemporary music, including names such as Chloe Caillet, Josh Baker, Malugi, Marlon Hoffstadt, SG Lewis and others.
The company’s recording division has also released music from artists including Dom Dolla, Eats Everything, The Prodigy, WILLOW and Eric Prydz.
This broader infrastructure illustrates how the role of a modern music manager has expanded.
Management is no longer limited to negotiating bookings or coordinating an artist’s schedule.
For internationally established artists, it can involve building teams, developing commercial opportunities, overseeing partnerships, navigating publishing and recording, and creating long-term strategies that connect multiple areas of the entertainment industry.
The Artists Who Defined the Model
Gillespie’s career has included relationships with some of the biggest names in contemporary music.
Three Six Zero has represented artists including Calvin Harris, Frank Ocean and Louis Tomlinson, among others, while its broader operations have extended well beyond electronic music.
That diversity is important.
Electronic music management increasingly exists within a much larger entertainment ecosystem. Artists can simultaneously operate as performers, producers, entrepreneurs, label owners, brand partners and creators of immersive experiences.
The manager’s responsibility is therefore often to understand how all of these components can coexist without diluting the artist’s identity.
Gillespie’s career has developed around precisely that type of structure.
A New Chapter With Eric Prydz
September 2026 brings a particularly significant addition to the Three Six Zero story.
Eric Prydz has signed with Mark Gillespie and Three Six Zero for management, marking a new chapter for the Swedish producer and one of electronic music’s most technically ambitious live artists. Prydz publicly confirmed the move in September.
The timing is notable because Prydz’s career has increasingly extended beyond conventional DJ performance.
His HOLO concept has become one of the defining large-scale audiovisual projects in electronic music, combining original production, advanced visual technology and immersive live presentation.
Prydz’s official website describes HOLO as a tourable holographic live experience that has appeared at major festivals and sold-out arenas, while his newer Holosphere 2.0 project continues that emphasis on technological and visual innovation.
His current touring calendar also extends across Europe, North America and Mexico through late 2026, demonstrating the international scale of the project.
For Three Six Zero, the addition of Prydz brings an artist whose career sits at the intersection of progressive house, techno, technology and large-scale live production.
For Gillespie, it represents another opportunity to build management strategy around an artist with a highly developed creative world.
More Than Artist Representation
One of the defining characteristics of Gillespie’s career has been the expansion of management into a broader entertainment model.
Three Six Zero has moved beyond traditional artist management through recording, publishing and production.
The company operates Three Six Zero Recordings, while its publishing division works with a wide range of contemporary artists and songwriters.
The company’s activities have also extended into film and television.
Gillespie served as an executive producer on Vox Lux, the 2018 film starring Natalie Portman and Jude Law.
These developments reflect a wider transformation within the music business.
Artists increasingly operate across multiple creative industries, and management companies have had to develop the infrastructure necessary to support that expansion.
The Business Behind the Artist
For audiences, the visible side of electronic music is usually the performance.
The DJ on stage.
The festival crowd.
The production.
The visuals.
The release.
Behind those moments is an extensive network of decisions involving contracts, touring, publishing, partnerships, branding, finance, production and international strategy.
That infrastructure can determine how an artist’s creative work reaches audiences and how sustainable the career becomes over time.
Gillespie’s career demonstrates how the manager can become an architect of that infrastructure.
His work has involved building relationships across the music industry while creating a company capable of supporting artists through multiple stages of their careers.
Understanding Scale Without Losing Identity
As electronic music has become increasingly global, scale has become both an opportunity and a challenge.
Artists can reach millions of listeners instantly, perform on several continents within a single touring cycle and collaborate with brands and entertainment companies far beyond the traditional music industry.
But growth also creates complexity.
The larger an artist becomes, the more important it can be to maintain a clear creative identity.
Gillespie has previously discussed the importance of reassessing what success means rather than simply pursuing size for its own sake. In a Music Business Worldwide profile, he described Three Six Zero’s philosophy as not being focused on becoming the biggest company, but on understanding what success means after sustained growth.
That perspective offers an interesting lens through which to view the company’s development.
The objective of management is not necessarily simply to make an artist bigger.
It is to build an environment in which the artist can continue to develop.
Three Six Zero and the Modern Music Industry
The contemporary music manager operates in an industry that looks very different from the one Gillespie entered in the late 1990s.
Streaming changed how music is consumed.
Social media changed how artists communicate with audiences.
Global touring transformed the relationship between artists and international markets.
Publishing and catalog ownership became increasingly important.
And technological developments have opened new possibilities for both production and live performance.
Three Six Zero has evolved alongside those changes.
Its involvement in management, recording, publishing and entertainment allows it to operate across several parts of the modern music ecosystem rather than treating each area as completely separate.
That approach becomes increasingly relevant as artists build careers that are no longer defined by a single format.
The Importance of Long-Term Strategy
A successful electronic music career can take years to develop.
The decisions made behind the scenes can affect an artist’s positioning long after a particular release, tour or festival appearance has passed.
For managers, this means understanding timing.
When to expand.
When to protect an artist’s identity.
When to enter a new market.
When to develop a new business opportunity.
And when to allow the music itself to remain the central focus.
Gillespie’s career has been built around this long-term perspective.
From his early work in British club culture to the international expansion of Three Six Zero, the common thread has been the development of structures around talent.
Looking Ahead With Eric Prydz
The arrival of Eric Prydz provides another opportunity to see how this model operates.
Prydz already has a deeply established artistic identity through projects including Pryda, Cirez D, HOLO and his extensive live catalogue. His official site describes Pryda as one of the influential names in progressive house, while Cirez D represents his darker techno-oriented output.
That makes the management challenge less about creating an identity from scratch and more about supporting an established creative universe as it enters another phase.
With Three Six Zero now involved, the coming period will provide a new chapter in the international development of the Prydz project.
It also reinforces the company’s position within the evolving global electronic music landscape.
Why Mark Gillespie Is Music Manager of the Month
For September 2026, Techno House CDA Magazine recognizes Mark Gillespie for his contribution to the development of modern music management and the international expansion of electronic music careers.
His journey from the UK club scene to the creation of Three Six Zero demonstrates how deep knowledge of music culture can develop into a global management and entertainment operation.
His work across artist management, recording, publishing and entertainment reflects the increasingly interconnected nature of the music industry.
And the September 2026 addition of Eric Prydz to the Three Six Zero management roster provides a current example of the company’s continued development.
Gillespie’s career is ultimately a story about infrastructure.
Artists create the music.
Managers help build the environment in which that music can become a career.
And as electronic music continues to expand across borders, technologies and creative industries, that role becomes increasingly complex.
The Future of Music Management
The next generation of electronic music management will operate in an environment shaped by global touring, direct-to-fan communication, streaming, artificial intelligence, immersive technology, publishing and increasingly independent artist businesses.
The manager will need to understand all of these areas while keeping the artist’s creative identity at the center.
Mark Gillespie’s career offers a clear example of how that role has evolved.
From club promotion and talent booking to international artist management and entertainment, his professional journey mirrors the transformation of the music business itself.
With Three Six Zero continuing to expand across management, publishing, recording and entertainment, and with Eric Prydz entering a new management chapter in September 2026, Gillespie remains closely connected to the changing architecture of global electronic music.
For his contribution to artist development, music management and the wider business of electronic music, Mark Gillespie is Techno House CDA Magazine’s Music Manager of the Month for September 2026.