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Independent

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

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](https://www.mammothlive.com/about).

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](https://sropr.com/portfolio/mammoth/).

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](https://news.pollstar.com/2024/10/10/executive-profile-jeff-fortier-josh-hunt-talk-mammoths-growth-the-relationships-forged-along-the-way/).

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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