Luke Wood Biography Luke Wood, born on 2 August 1995, is an English cricketer representing England and Lancashire. Known as a left-arm fast-medium bowler, he is also a left-handed batsman. Wood played his first first-class match for Nottinghamshire against Sussex in September 2014. American musician and music executive Luke Wood was president of DGC Records from 2007 to 2010 and Beats Electronics from 2012 to 2020.
Luke Wood Biography
Luke grew up in Pittsford, a suburb of Rochester, New York, and graduated from Wilson Magnet High School in 1987. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in American Studies in 1991 from Wesleyan University and is a member of the university’s board of trustees.
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Luke Wood Biography Summary
Full Name
Luke Wood
Born
August 02, 1995
Age
28 Years, 8 Months, 2 Days
National Side
England
Sport
Cricket
Luke Wood Biography Profile
Luke Wood is a left-handed swing bowler who can swing the ball back into the right-hander, which makes him a formidable opponent. Wood progressed through Nottinghamshire’s age-group system and was called up to the England U-19 squad after playing for the Under-17 team. After rising through the ranks, Wood played his first-class debut at Trent Bridge against Sussex in 2014. He did, however, demonstrate growth as a bowler in 2015, as he ended the campaign with 30 wickets and was called up to the ECB bowling camp in South Africa.
Luke attended Wilson Magnet High School in 1987 after graduating from Pittsford, a Rochester, New York, suburb. He is a member of the university’s board of trustees and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree with an emphasis in American Studies.
Career
Wood held the positions of president of Interscope Geffen A&M’s rock label DGC Records and chief strategy officer before joining Beats Electronics. In his capacity as president of DGC, Wood oversaw all marketing, Artists & Repertoire (A&R), and artist development and guidance for the label’s artists, which included Yeah Yeah Yeahs, All-American Rejects, Weezer, and Rise Against. Wood was active in the firm’s marketing and PR prior to joining A&R.
Wood worked for Geffen Records as director of PR in 1991, representing artists including Sonic Youth and Nirvana. Later on, he worked for DreamWorks Records as vice president of A&R and Geffen Records as director of marketing. When Interscope Records merged with DreamWorks in 2003, Wood became an executive vice president of A&R there.
Personal life
Wood met writer Sophia Nardin while attending Wesleyan University, and the two are now married. Along with his wife and two daughters, he resides in Los Angeles. Shortly after Apple paid $3 billion to acquire Beats, Wood paid $8.55 million for Silvertop, a 4,700-square-foot (440 m2) home in Los Angeles in August 2014. John Lautner, an architect, created the mansion, which was constructed in 1956 for inventor Kenneth Reiner. However, Reiner never lived there since he finally filed for bankruptcy. In 1974, an adjacent couple purchased the incomplete property, finished it, and spent forty years living there. Upon acquiring Silvertop, Wood hired Barbara Bestor, an architect known for designing the Beats Electronics offices in Los Angeles, to carry out renovations on the property.
