Maestro Talent and Management Sdn Bhd was a

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

talent management Talent management (TM) is the anticipation of required human capital for an organization and the planning to meet those needs. The field has been growing in significance and gaining interest among practitioners as well as in the scholarly deba ...

recording A record, recording or records may refer to: An item or collection of data Computing * Record (computer science), a data structure ** Record, or row (database), a set of fields in a database related to one entity ** Boot sector or boot record, re ...

, and

publishing Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

company. It is wholly owned by

Astro All Asia Networks Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad () is a Malaysian media and entertainment holding company that began as a paid digital satellite radio and television service, Astro. The company is owned by Usaha Tegas Sdn. Bhd., which also owns Astro Oversea ...

, the dominant pay-TV provider in Malaysia. The company was closed down in Astro's restructuring exercise because of job losses on March 31, 2009.

History

Maestro was established in July 2003 and operated from the former headquarters of Betarecs Sdn Bhd in

Petaling Jaya Petaling Jaya (), colloquially referred to as "PJ", is a city in Petaling District, in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. Originally developed as a Satellite city, satellite township for Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, it is part of the G ...

. It started out as a three-man operation headed by music veteran and former performing arts academy ''

Akademi Fantasia ''Akademi Fantasia'' (commonly abbreviated as ''AF'') is Malaysia's first reality television show in which a number of contestants called students compete for the winning title and a chance to start their career in the entertainment industry. T ...

'' principal Freddie Fernandez, with the goal of managing, promoting and identifying aspiring talents. In early 2009, the

late 2000s recession The Great Recession was a period of market decline in economies around the world that occurred from late 2007 to mid-2009.

, combined with Maestro's irrelevant conventional business module led to the closure of Maestro. However, the Maestro staff was not thrown in the lurch without compensation, and it was absorbed into the talent management division of Astro Entertainment Sdn Bhd, another of Astro All Asia Networks' subsidiary.

References

External links

Maestro Talent and Management website
{{Astro All Asia Networks Defunct companies of Malaysia 2003 establishments in Malaysia 2009 disestablishments in Malaysia Mass media companies established in 2003 Mass media companies disestablished in 2009