Q Prime manages the careers of many multiplatinum acts, including Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Muse,[3] Smashing Pumpkins, Hole, Veruca Salt, Snow Patrol, Lost Prophets and Jimmy Page.
He attended Brandeis University and worked as a music director for the college radio station, where he met Cliff Burnstein.
[2] As a tour accountant with Aerosmith, Mensch came upon the Australian rock band AC/DC, and persuaded them to swap their previous manager, Michael Browning, for Leber-Krebs.
[6][8] On the advice of his friend Cliff Burnstein, then at Mercury Records, Mensch targeted the British group Def Leppard.
In the early nineties, their roster expanded to include alternative rock bands such as the Smashing Pumpkins, Hole, and Veruca Salt.
The firm's present roster includes Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Muse, Snow Patrol, Foals, Silversun Pickups, Cage the Elephant, Dawes, and others.
They additionally manage country acts from their Q Prime Nashville imprint, including Eric Church, Gillian Welch, and the Black Keys.
[5][10][11] According to an interview with The Sunday Times, Mensch stated that he had assisted with the sale of "hundreds of millions" of records, adding "I can't be more specific than that.