Wendy Laister



Wendy Laister is the founder of Magus Entertainment, which has served as the management team for Duran Duran since 2001.

Magus is a New-York-based management company, representing both artists and mixers and producers.

Prior to establishing Magus Entertainment, Wendy was Manager of corporate press and public relations for Richard Branson's Virgin Group, and then founded and ran the European PR firm Laister Dickson, which served The Rolling Stones, Guns ‘N Roses, Paul McCartney, Janet Jackson, Aerosmith, Greenpeace, INXS and Tina Turner, among many others. She began serving as worldwide manager for Aerosmith from the early 1990s, then founded Magus, which now represents Duran Duran, Daniel Bedingfield, Fischerspooner, DJ Ferry Corsten, Carina Round, Trustfall, and producer/mixers Jimmy Douglass, Ben Allen, Ed Raso, John Fryer, and Michael Patterson.