Kwame Amankwa Kwaten (born 13 May 1967) is a British manager, music consultant, musician and record producer.

Past and present artists managed by Kwaten include Laura Mvula, The Night VI, Steve Brown, Shannon Saunders and Kerry Leatham.

In 1989, Kwaten was part of a band, D-Influence, who were opening acts for Michael Jackson, and produced tracks for a number of prominent musicians including Shola Ama, Jay-Z and Mick Jagger.

[1] Kwaten started his artistic career in the middle of the eighties at the Warminster Athenaeum[2] as part of the school band Outcry.

Kwaten had started working at the Borderline Club in London as a compère employed by Neil Conti of Prefab Sprout and Raye Cosbert when he and Steve formed the band D-Influence with Ed Baden Powell, Sarah Anne Webb and Ned Bigham (who was to leave the band after the release of the first album).

Kwaten gave one of these records to London DJ Tim Westwood and it was he who played D–Influence first on Capital Radio.

Many stars from the music world spoke and gave free advice at these events such as Kanye West, Jazzie B, Tim Westwood, Kanya King, Trevor Nelson, Damon Dash, Mathew Knowles, Norman Jay.

One of his earlier mentees, Spitfire Audio CEO, Will Evans, has credited Kwaten as an enormous help in the early stages of his career development.

It enables students to network with like-minded people and has called upon acts such as Kanye West, Stormzy and Darcus Beese from Island Records among others.

The Ultimate Circle was created after a noticeable lack of mentoring programmes available for people wanting to break into the music business.

The programme is designed to help break down barriers and open doors for employment by arming those seeking to pursue a career in music with one to one help from those already established within the business.

In 2014, Kwaten started his own management company called Ferocious Talent, where he worked with acts like Rumer.

More recently, he has been working with acts like Amrit Kaur, Vivienne Chi, Kaidi & NK-OK, Blue Lab Beats and Caitlyn Scarlett.