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Josh Hunt

Chief Executive Officer, Mammoth

Company metric · Trade-reported

1,000+ events/year

Concerts and live events produced annually by Mammoth

as of 2023

Company-level figure for Mammoth's annual concert and event production across its national offices; it is not a personal measure of Hunt's earnings.

Source: SRO PR — MAMMOTH (retrieved 2026-09-16)

Hero metrics are sourced, person-specific measures of live-music economic footprint. Company metrics are labelled as company metrics; no synthetic score is used.

Co-owner and CEO of Mammoth, an independent concert promoter and venue operator based in Lawrence, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri.

Last updated 2026-09-16

In short

Josh Hunt is Chief Executive Officer at Mammoth. Co-built Mammoth from a regional Midwest promoter into a national independent operator with venue holdings, festival dates and an international joint venture. Josh Hunt is chief executive officer and co-owner of Mammoth, the independent concert promoter he built with Jeff Fortier, according to the company's own leadership page, which lists Hunt as CEO and Fortier as president [1](https://www.mammothlive.com/about).

Quick facts

Current role
Chief Executive Officer
Organisation
Mammoth
Primary category
Independent
Known for
Mammoth; Midwest independent promotion; CTS Eventim joint venture; Rod Wave Nostalgia Tour
Last verified
2026-09-16

Executive summary

Josh Hunt is chief executive officer and co-owner of Mammoth, the independent concert promoter he built with Jeff Fortier, according to the company's own leadership page, which lists Hunt as CEO and Fortier as president 1.

Founded in 2006 and based in Lawrence, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri, Mammoth has grown to more than 50 full-time employees producing over 1,000 concerts and events annually, and it owns and operates more than 60 boutique amphitheatres and historic theatres nationally 3.

Under Hunt and Fortier, the company expanded into Nashville, New York and Portland offices, formed regional partnerships in Los Angeles and Atlanta, and entered a 2023 international joint venture with CTS Eventim, alongside co-promoting arena tours such as Rod Wave's 2023 'Nostalgia Tour,' which grossed more than $42 million according to Pollstar Boxoffice reports 2.

Why Josh Hunt matters in live music

Mammoth's growth under Hunt from a Kansas regional promoter into a national operator with an international touring joint venture demonstrates a scaling path for independent promoters that does not depend on acquisition by Live Nation or AEG.

The company's ownership of a large portfolio of small and mid-size venues gives Hunt direct influence over booking access in secondary and tertiary touring markets that larger national promoters often bypass.

Career record

  1. 2006Co-founded Mammoth with Jeff Fortier in Lawrence, Kansas.
  2. 2019-2023Expanded Mammoth's office footprint to Portland, New York and Nashville, and formed regional partnerships in Los Angeles and Atlanta.
  3. 2023-03Entered an international joint venture with CTS Eventim through Mammoth and AG Entertainment Touring.
  4. 2023Co-promoted Rod Wave's arena 'Nostalgia Tour' with AG Entertainment, grossing more than $42 million per Pollstar Boxoffice reporting.

Sphere of influence

Levels are categorical — Core, Major, Significant, Limited — and each is stated with the evidence it rests on. No numeric score is published, because none would be defensible.

Independent promotion
Major
Co-leads Mammoth, a national independent promoter producing more than 1,000 events a year.
Venue operation
Significant
Mammoth owns and operates more than 60 venues nationally, per company-sourced trade coverage.

Entity relationships

Current

  • Josh Hunt co-founded and leads as CEO Mammoth.

  • Josh Hunt co-owns Mammoth with Jeff Fortier.

    Fortier serves as president of Mammoth.

  • Josh Hunt entered a touring joint venture with CTS Eventim.

Timeline

  1. 2006Founded Mammoth with Jeff Fortier.
  2. 2021Opened Mammoth NW in Portland.
  3. 2022Opened Mammoth NE in New York and formed a Los Angeles partnership with Sugar Monkey.
  4. 2023-03Entered an international joint venture with CTS Eventim.
  5. 2024-2025Mammoth backed the launch of Challenger Artists, a management venture built from its infrastructure.

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