Ask anyone who knows him, and they’ll tell you Andrew Meyer is the best, both as a business manager and all-around good guy. The Freemark Financial co-founder has built a reputation for being grounded, methodical, empathetic and kind — while representing some of the flashiest names in entertainment, including Jon Chu, Anna Kendrick, Adam Driver, Kathryn Hahn, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Ellen Pompeo, who presented him with The Hollywood Reporter’s Business Manager Icon award during a Nov. 9 virtual celebration. Meyer grew up in Monrovia, barely 30 miles from his current Beverly Hills office, but says, “I might as well have grown up 5,000 miles away because there was no connection to this business at all.” There were many stops on his path to launching the firm he’s run with co- founder Steves Rodriguez for nearly a decade — but two of them seem especially significant. First, shortly after Meyer started a bookkeeping job at Breslauer, Jacobson, Rutman & Chapman, Nancy Chapman left the firm to launch a business of her own alongside Terry Bird and Bonnie Grey. “They believed they could do something better, and they split off,” Meyer recalls. “I was able to watch from ground zero how…
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