Fort William Artist Management was forged by the partnership of Ami Spishock (formerly of Zeitgeist Artist Management) with Ben Swanson, Chris Swanson, and Darius Van Arman (co-founders of Secretly Group, which includes labels Dead Oceans, Jagjaguwar, The Numero Group and Secretly Canadian).

"Fort William Artist Management is a wholly independent, female owned and operated management company representing Grammy Award winners The War On Drugs, Fleet Foxes, Beirut, Grizzly Bear, M. Ward, Dehd, Kevin Morby and Tamino, among others. Owner/Founder Ami Spishock resides in New Orleans, LA, and is the mother of two small children. She is on the Executive Boards of HeadCount, NITO and is the co-chair of the Grammy Southern region Education council. She was a part-time professor at Drexel University in 2019."