Nabil Ayers is the President of Beggars Group US, where he has run campaigns for The National (GRAMMY award winner), Big Thief (5x GRAMMY award nominee), Grimes, Future Islands and St. Vincent as well as reissue campaigns including Pixies’ platinum-selling album, Doolittle.

Ayers is a Recording Academy Trustee who served as an elected Governor of the New York chapter from 2018-2022. Ayers was named one of Billboard magazine’s “Indie Power Players” consecutively from 2019-2023.

After co-founding Seattle’s Sonic Boom Records store at age 25, Ayers sold it to a longtime customer in 2016. As both an executive and an artist who began his career as a musician Ayers has performed on several albums on both independent and major labels. On his own label, The Control Group, Ayers has released music by Cate Le Bon, Lykke Li, The Killers, PJ Harvey and his uncle, the jazz musician Alan Braufman.

Ayers has written about race and music for The New York Times, NPR, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and GQ, and he published his memoir, “My Life in the Sunshine” with Viking/Penguin in 2022.