Empire Entertainment

Empire Entertainment
Founder(s)	Lucious Lyon Cookie Lyon
CEO	Lucious Lyon (co-CEO) Cookie Lyon (co-CEO) Jamal Lyon (temporarily) Hakeem Lyon (briefly)
CFO	Andre Lyon
Chairman	Vernon Turner (formerly) Lucious Lyon (formerly) Mimi Whiteman (formerly) Camilla Marks-Whiteman (former interim/proxy)

Empire Entertainment ("Empire Enterprises"; NYSE: EMPE) (commonly referred to as "Empire") is a publicly traded company that was founded by Lucious and Cookie Lyon.

Although it is primarily first and foremost a multi-platinum recording label and studio, Empire also has its own fashion line, high-end liquor as well as involvement in sports management, publishing and electronic gaming.

Empire also owns a spin off label, Gutter Life Records, which focuses primarily on artists from the streets who possess a raw talent, hence the name "Gutter Life"; SwiftStream, a multi-platform online streaming service; as well as Lyon Dynasty, another spin-off label initially formed by Cookie & Hakeem Lyon as a competitor for Empire.

Employees

Current Employees

• Lucious Lyon (co-founder; co-CEO; former CEO)
• Cookie Lyon (co-founder; co-CEO; Head of A&R; record producer; artist manager; former Member of the Board of Directors)
• Andre Lyon (Chief Financial Officer/CFO)
• Jamal Lyon (artist, former vice-chairman & former interim CEO)
• Hakeem Lyon (artist; former CEO)
• Becky Williams (former executive assistant to Lucious; promoted to A&R)
• Thirsty Rawlings (Member of the Board of Directors; Legal Consultant)
• Porsha Taylor (executive assistant to Cookie Lyon)
• Carol Hardaway (possible executive assistant to Cookie Lyon)

• Steve Cho (Member of the Marketing Team)

Former Employees

• Vernon Turner (former chairman; deceased)
• Marcus 'Bunkie' Williams (formerly; assassinated)
• Anika Calhoun (former head of A&R; left Empire briefly for Creedmoor)
• Malcolm DeVeaux (former head of security)
• Mimi Whiteman (former Chairman and majority shareholder; deceased)
• Camilla Marks-Whiteman (appointed proxy and interim chairman; deceased)

Artists

Current Artists

187 Kevin Carmen (via Lyon Dynasty) Coagulation Crank Master (signed to Gutter Life Records) Crossfadezz Delphine Elle Dallas Frankie Fly Freda Gatz (via Gutter Life Records) Hakeem Lyon (via Lyon Dynasty) Hi-Fi Hunts Point Blank Trio Jamal Lyon J. Poppa (via Gutter Life Records) Laura Calleros (via Lyon Dynasty) Lil' Flippa

Lowboy Marisol Martina MC Noize Michelle White Muscle Mouse P. Busta (via Gutter Life Records) Ratzo Royale-T Tiana Brown (via Lyon Dynasty) Titan (via Gutter Life Records) Valentina Galindo Wallywowwow

Former Artists

• Black Mythology (former artist; left Empire for Creedmoor)
• Black Rambo (former artist; left Empire due to homophobia)
• Industry (former artist; left Empire for Creedmoor)
• Kidd Fo-Fo (former artist; dropped)
• L'il Cherry (former artist; left Empire for Creedmoor)
• Veronica (former artist; left Empire for Creedmoor)