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Executive, promoter, manager, ticketing and venue profiles mapping the people who shape the modern live-music economy.
Ownership records explain what a company holds. They do not explain who decides that a tour plays stadiums rather than arenas, which festival gets bought, or how a ticketing contract is negotiated. Those decisions belong to a small number of people, and this directory records them the same way the industry register records companies: a current role, the sources that state it, and a clear separation between what a person does now and what they once did.
Each profile carries a sourced career record, a qualitative reading of where the person's influence actually reaches, and typed relationships to the companies, venues and festivals documented elsewhere on Live Index. Influence is described in categories rather than scores, because no published method would make a number here meaningful.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Live Nation Entertainment
159M
Fans at Live Nation-promoted events, the company he leads
FY 2025 · Company metric · U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)
Live Nation's longtime chief executive and one of the central figures in global concert promotion, ticketing and venue strategy.
Founder, Red Light Management
Founder of Red Light Management, whose influence spans artist management, touring, festivals, venues and direct-to-fan businesses.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AEG Presents
12,000+
Shows promoted annually by AEG Presents, the division he leads
As stated 2026 · Company metric · AEG Worldwide
Chairman and chief executive of AEG Presents, overseeing one of the world's largest concert-promotion and touring organisations.
Chairman — Global Music and President — Global Touring, Live Nation Entertainment
$1.02B
Combined gross of tours he promoted in 2025 (Beyoncé, Oasis, Lady Gaga)
2025 · Company metric · Pollstar
His remit sits at the centre of Live Nation's arena and stadium touring business.
President — Touring, Live Nation Entertainment
22,690,347
Tickets sold by Live Nation, the touring business he heads
Pollstar 2026 Mid-Year Promoter Chart · Company metric · Pollstar
Helps direct touring operations inside the world's largest concert-promotion company.
Chief Executive Officer, Oak View Group
400+
Client venues and institutions served by Oak View Group, the company he leads
As stated 2026 · Company metric · Oak View Group
Leads a company whose venue services and development work reach arenas, stadiums and cultural facilities across multiple continents.
President, Global Touring, AEG Presents
112,408
Tickets sold for the AEG Presents-promoted Zach Bryan show at Michigan Stadium, the largest ticketed show in U.S. history
September 2025 · Company metric · Pollstar
Runs the global touring function of Live Nation's largest direct competitor in concert promotion.
Founder, Danny Wimmer Presents
230,000+
Attendance at Welcome to Rockville, produced by Danny Wimmer Presents
2025 · Company metric · CelebrityAccess
Built a multi-market festival portfolio outside the two largest corporate concert groups.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Another Planet Entertainment
440,000+
Attendees across Outside Lands and Golden Gate Park concerts produced by Another Planet Entertainment
2025 · Company metric · Pollstar
Leads an independent regional promoter with a durable portfolio of festivals and major Bay Area venues.
Global President, Ticketmaster
$26B
Ticketing fee-bearing gross transaction value for concerts, the business he leads
FY 2025 · Company metric · Live Nation Entertainment
Leads Ticketmaster during a period of intense scrutiny over ticket security, fees, resale and market structure.
Managing Director, Creative Artists Agency
Her 2026 move from WME to CAA shifted a senior agent and client relationships between two major representation firms.
Independent music entrepreneur, promoter and venue operator, Dayglo Ventures
2,000+
Shows staged by The Rock and Roll Playhouse, the touring family-concert series he originated
As stated 2026 · Company metric · Shore Fire Media
Connects independent venue operation, concert promotion and artist-community projects in a durable multi-venue business.
President, Live Nation Urban
1M+
Tickets sold annually by Live Nation Urban, the joint venture he leads
2023, as reported in 2024 · Organisation metric · Pollstar
Leads a dedicated promotion business spanning festivals, tours and professional development within the Live Nation system.
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, SeatGeek
Runs a venture-backed ticketing platform that competes with Ticketmaster on both the resale marketplace and primary enterprise-ticketing sides of the business.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, DICE
Built a ticketing platform built around upfront, all-in pricing that positions itself as an alternative to dynamic-pricing resale ticketing.
Chief Executive Officer, AXS
$3.5B+
Annual transaction value processed by AXS, the ticketing company he leads
As stated 2026 · Company metric · LinkedIn (AXS company description)
Leads a major primary ticketing platform serving venues including Crypto.com Arena and London's O2 Arena, and AXS's role as a joint ticketing provider for the LA28 Olympic Games.
Chief Executive Officer, Vivid Seats
$2.2B–$2.6B
Vivid Seats' projected 2026 marketplace gross order value, the company he leads
2026 outlook, issued November 2025 · Company metric · Vivid Seats LLC
Leads a Nasdaq-listed secondary ticketing marketplace through a period of declining revenue and gross order value.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Full Stop Management
Manages a management roster that has included Harry Styles, U2, Kings of Leon and John Mayer, sitting alongside his father Irving Azoff's wider Azoff Company operation.
Founder, Good World Management
Runs a management company that received a strategic investment from Initial Group in February 2026 while managing several of pop and dance music's highest-profile current artists.
Founder, September Management
Has managed Adele's entire recording and touring career and leads a company whose clients include Little Simz, Jamie T and Glass Animals.
Music Agent and Co-Head, Global Touring, Creative Artists Agency
Sits atop CAA's global touring leadership alongside Darryl Eaton and Rick Roskin, overseeing a division of more than 340 employees.
Senior Agent and Head of Electronic, International, Creative Artists Agency
Represents a roster of leading electronic and dance artists including David Guetta and The Chainsmokers, and led CAA's 2012 expansion into dance music.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Gate 52
70+
Independent venues in Gate 52's booking and promotion network
As reported 2025 · Company metric · Billboard
Runs a network of more than a dozen owned venues and a booking partnership spanning over 70 independent venues, after two decades leading WME's global music division.
Founder and Chairman, I.M.P.
5 venues / 20,000+ events
I.M.P. venues operated and cumulative events staged in Washington, D.C.
as of 2025-2026 · Company metric · FINCHANNEL
Runs one of the largest fully independent concert operations in the United States without a major-company acquisition or ticketing partnership with Ticketmaster.
CEO and President, Jam Productions
Leads one of the country's largest surviving self-funded independent promoters and is among the most visible advocates for antitrust action against Live Nation-Ticketmaster.
President, Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest Regions, AEG Presents
1,100+ events/year
Annual events promoted by AEG Presents Rocky Mountains
as of 2024 · Company metric · Pollstar
Directs one of AEG's largest regional promotion operations, which stages more than 1,100 events a year across Colorado, Washington and neighboring markets.
Chairman, Live Nation Georgia, Live Nation Entertainment
Has directed Atlanta's dominant concert-promotion operation for more than four decades, spanning its transition from independent promotion into Live Nation's regional structure.
Executive and Artistic Director, Big Ears Festival
Curates one of the country's most distinctive genre-crossing festivals after selling his former promotion company, AC Entertainment, and his Bonnaroo interest.
Promoter and South Region President, U.S. Concerts, C3 Presents
One of the most senior festival executives in the country, running talent buying for C3's flagship festivals while overseeing Live Nation's broader South Region concert business.
CEO, Frank Productions
Runs a regionally rooted promoter that has expanded into venue development, opening Milwaukee's Landmark Credit Union Live in February 2026 in partnership with Live Nation.
Co-President, Frank Productions / FPC Live
Has led FPC Live's national touring and venue-development strategy since 2014, including its recent expansion into Milwaukee.
Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Outback Presents
5.5M+ tickets / 2,200+ shows
Outback Presents tickets sold and shows produced in the past year
as of 2026 · Company metric · Outback Presents
Built Outback Presents into a Billboard top-10 and Pollstar top-10 ranked promoter while remaining independently owned, and led its 2026 strategic partnership with AEG Presents.
Chief Executive Officer, Mammoth
1,000+ events/year
Concerts and live events produced annually by Mammoth
as of 2023 · Company metric · SRO PR
Co-built Mammoth from a regional Midwest promoter into a national independent operator with venue holdings, festival dates and an international joint venture.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Goldenvoice
Sold out in 3 days
Coachella 2026 both-weekend sellout speed
2026 · Company metric · Pollstar
Built and continues to run the promotion company behind North America's highest-profile multi-genre festival.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Insomniac
~200,000 per day
EDC Las Vegas 2026 daily attendance
2026 · Company metric · Billboard
Built and still runs the company that produces EDC Las Vegas, one of the largest dance-music festivals in the world.
Managing Director, Festival Republic
240,000
Leeds Festival site capacity, 2026
2026 · Company metric · Yorkshire Evening Post
Runs the promotion company behind some of the UK's largest and longest-running annual festivals.
Founder, Solo Agency
Combines a major international booking agency with sole promotion of one of the UK's flagship annual festivals.
Chairman, Chugg Entertainment
150+ shows, 1M+ tickets
Chugg Entertainment and Frontier Touring shows delivered, 2024–25
2024-2025 · Company metric · The Music
One of the longest-serving promoters in the Australian live-music market, still active in touring and festival promotion.
Executive Vice President, Goldenvoice
One of the primary talent buyers shaping Goldenvoice's country and alternative-genre festivals, including Stagecoach and Coachella booking input.
Chief Executive Officer, UK and European Festivals, AEG Presents
600,000
BST Hyde Park attendance across its 2026 run
2026 · Company metric · AEG Global Partnerships
Runs AEG's European festival portfolio, which draws more than a million festival-goers a year across multiple countries.
Co-Founder and Partner, Founders Entertainment
Built and continues to run the company behind New York City's largest annual music festival.
Co-Founder, Superfly, A Range Company
Co-created two of the United States' most established music festivals and continues to lead festival and experiential business development after Superfly's acquisition.
President and Chief Executive Officer, AEG (Anschutz Entertainment Group)
160M+
Guests AEG, the company he leads, entertains annually
As stated 2026 · Company metric · UCLA Anderson School of Management
Runs one of the two vertically integrated promoter-venue-ticketing conglomerates that dominate large-scale live entertainment.
Senior Vice President, AEG Presents
Leads touring relationships for major artists inside AEG's concert-promotion division, one of the largest promoters in the world.
President and Chief Financial Officer, Live Nation Entertainment
$23.2B
Live Nation Entertainment's fiscal 2024 revenue, the company he serves as president and CFO
Fiscal year 2024 · Company metric · Live Nation Entertainment
Serves as Live Nation's top financial officer and a lead public voice defending the company during its Department of Justice antitrust case.
Executive Vice President, Global Music, Ticketmaster
Directs the ticketing technology and relationships that Ticketmaster, part of Live Nation Entertainment, uses to sell tickets for touring artists worldwide.
Chairman, TEG (Ticketek Entertainment Group)
Built TEG's integrated ticketing and live-entertainment model and now chairs the company as it operates more than 30 businesses globally.
Group Chief Executive Officer, TEG (Ticketek Entertainment Group)
Runs Australasia's leading live-entertainment and ticketing group following its second CEO transition in just over a year.
Chief Executive Officer, Legends Global
450+
Venues worldwide in the Legends Global network he leads
As stated 2025-2026 · Company metric · Legendsglobal.com
Leads the world's largest venue-management company by portfolio size, overseeing more than 450 venues worldwide.
President and Chief Operating Officer, Sphere, Sphere Entertainment Co.
Runs the day-to-day business of Sphere, the immersive entertainment venue in Las Vegas with further locations planned in Abu Dhabi and National Harbor.
Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Sphere Entertainment Co. and MSG Entertainment Corp.
$942.7M
MSG Entertainment's fiscal 2025 revenue, one of the companies he leads as executive chairman and CEO
Fiscal year 2025 (ended June 30, 2025) · Company metric · Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. (SEC filing)
Controls the corporate leadership of Sphere, Madison Square Garden, MSG Networks and the New York Knicks and Rangers.
Managing Director and Owner, SJM Concerts
£487M
SJM Ltd turnover, 2025
Year ended 31 December 2025 · Company metric · Warrington Guardian
Runs the promoter behind the Oasis reunion tour and long-running relationships with Coldplay, Take That and other UK arena and stadium headliners.
CEO and Promoter, KMJ Entertainment
4.5M
Combined annual ticket sales across KMJ Entertainment's brands
As of January 2026 · Company metric · Music Business Worldwide
Built Kilimanjaro Live into a leading UK promoter and now leads the wider KMJ group spanning promotion, festivals, theatrical production and ticketing.
Chairman, Live Nation UK & Ireland, Live Nation Entertainment
3M
MCD Productions/Live Nation projected Irish concert ticket sales
2024 · Company metric · RTÉ
Directs Live Nation's combined UK and Ireland promotion business, including MCD's Irish stadium and festival calendar.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Lionfish Entertainment
One of the most senior Latin-music managers in the touring business, shaping global routing decisions for several of the genre's top-grossing artists.
Chief Executive Officer, Rimas Entertainment
$225.2M
Bad Bunny touring gross, first half of 2026
H1 2026 · Company metric · Pollstar
Directs the management and business operations behind Bad Bunny's stadium and residency touring, among the highest-grossing runs in the world.
Head of Global Latin Music Touring, Creative Artists Agency
One of the most senior booking agents in Latin music, coordinating tour deals for the agency's Latin roster across the Americas and Europe.
Co-Director, Westwood Entertainment; Founder, Socios Music, Westwood Entertainment
15,000+
Shows produced by Westwood Entertainment across 15 countries
Since 1999 · Company metric · Billboard Latin Music Week
Manages the touring career of one of música mexicana's biggest global crossover artists while co-running a promoter with more than 15,000 shows produced across 15 countries.
Founder, Executive Chairman and CEO, Grupo CIE / OCESA
$646M
Live Nation's 2025 purchase of an additional 24% stake in OCESA
Announced July 2025 · Company metric · Live Nation Entertainment
Leads the promoter behind most of Mexico's largest stadium concerts, festivals and the Formula 1 Mexico City Grand Prix, with his tenure as CEO secured through 2032 under Live Nation's ownership.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Move Concerts
30+
Stadium shows on Move Concerts' 2026 Latin American calendar
2026 · Company metric · Music Business Worldwide
Runs one of Latin America's leading independent promoters, routing major international and Latin stadium tours across the region.
Chief Executive Officer, Time For Fun (T4F)
Leads a publicly traded promoter that has brought Madonna, U2, Taylor Swift and other global headliners to Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Peru.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Live Nation Entertainment
159M
Fans at Live Nation-promoted events, the company he leads
FY 2025 · Company metric · U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)
Runs the company that promotes concerts, owns Ticketmaster and builds venues at a scale no other operator matches.
Founder, Red Light Management
Built the management company Pollstar describes as the largest in the world, with reach well beyond management itself.
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Messina Touring Group
One of the few promoters outside the two largest corporate groups whose work routinely operates at stadium scale.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AEG Presents
12,000+
Shows promoted annually by AEG Presents, the division he leads
As stated 2026 · Company metric · AEG Worldwide
Leads the principal structural competitor to Live Nation in global promotion, festivals and venue programming.
Co-founder and partner, C3 Presents
450,000
Attendance at Austin City Limits Music Festival, produced by C3 Presents
2025 · Company metric · Austin American-Statesman
Helped build the festival portfolio that now sits inside the Live Nation group, and remains a partner in it.
Co-founder and partner, C3 Presents
460,000+
Attendance at Lollapalooza Chicago, produced by C3 Presents
2025 · Company metric · Block Club Chicago
Partner in the company that produces Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits Music Festival and exported the format internationally.
President, U.S. Concerts, Live Nation Entertainment
Runs day-to-day American promotion for the largest concert company, across clubs, theatres, amphitheatres, arenas and festivals.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Azoff Company
One of the few figures whose career touches management, ticketing history, performance rights and arena development.
Chief Executive Officer, Black Promoters Collective
$100M+
Top-line revenue reported for Black Promoters Collective, the coalition he leads
2025 · Organisation metric · Pollstar
Leads a coalition of independent promoters operating at a revenue scale the trade press now reports in nine figures.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cárdenas Marketing Network
$415.8M
Gross of Luis Miguel's tour, promoted by Cárdenas Marketing Network
16-month run, reported 2025 · Company metric · Pollstar
Built the leading United States promoter of Latin touring, working in partnership with AEG Presents.
