Vector merges with Peter Rudge's PAM

EMINENCE FRONT: Nashville-HQ’d Vector Management and London-based Proper Artist Management have combined into one entity under the Vector brand name, Music Week reports. The agreement brings together three veteran managers in Vector co-Presidents Ken Levitan and Jack Rovner and PAM principal Peter Rudge, best known for working with The Who, The Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd. As with Vector and Proper previously, the merged company is part of the Artist Nation group. Rudge turned philosophical in his offering, musing, “Management can be a lonely game,” Rudge mused, Ulysses-like, in his official quote, “but finally, after many years, I feel we've found a home.” (3/5a)