Cecil White

AGENT & EXECUTIVE, WME SPORTS

Cecil White is an Agent at WME Sports focused on building businesses around athletes and multihyphenate celebrities. His primary focus is securing brand partnerships and equity-based endorsements. As of late, given the recent legislation allowing college athletes to monetize their name/image/likeness (NIL), Cecil has negotiated groundbreaking, 1 of 1 deals for top talent such as Shedeur Sanders (JSU), Deja Kelly (UNC), Dior Johnson (Oregon), Gradey Dick (Kansas) and more. He plays a vital role in the consultation of the MEAC Conference as well, servicing the entire conference for all sponsorships & multimedia rights needs. Outside of these duties, he served on the programming team for the Social Justice Now Festival and has a hand in several non-scripted television projects including Why Not Us, a docuseries Executive Produced by NBA Superstar Chris Paul. He was also instrumental in creating and securing brand and media partners for the The Legacy Classic, an HBCU basketball event hosted by Michael B. Jordan.

Before joining WME, Cecil was a Senior Financial Analyst at Endeavor, WME’s parent company, where he helped secure deals to create revenue streams for Endeavor’s subsidiary companies. Prior to coming to Endeavor, Cecil began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Barclays. He currently serves on the McIntire Young Alumni Council at University of Virginia, is an Advisor to the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art and most recently joined the Emerging Leaders Council of New Heights Youth, Inc. Cecil was an Echols Scholar at University of Virginia where he received his Bachelor of Science in Commerce with concentrations in Finance, Management and Business Analytics and a minor in African American studies. In 2020, Cecil was listed on Forbes 30 Under 30 and Sports Business Journal’s New Voices Under 30