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Saumil Mehta, global president of Ticketmaster
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Ticketing

Saumil Mehta

Global President, Ticketmaster

Company metric · Filed disclosure

$26B

Ticketing fee-bearing gross transaction value for concerts, the business he leads

FY 2025

Live Nation Entertainment's full-year 2025 results report ticketing fee-bearing gross transaction value for concerts of $26 billion, up 9 percent year over year. It is a measure of the Ticketmaster business Mehta leads as global president, not his personal income or wealth.

Source: Live Nation Entertainment — Live Nation Entertainment Full Year And Fourth Quarter 2025 Results (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.

Global president of Ticketmaster, responsible for the primary-ticketing platform's current product and operating direction.

Last updated 2026-09-15

In short

Saumil Mehta is Global President at Ticketmaster. Leads Ticketmaster during a period of intense scrutiny over ticket security, fees, resale and market structure. Saumil Mehta is global president of Ticketmaster.

Quick facts

Current role
Global President
Organisation
Ticketmaster
Primary category
Ticketing
Known for
Leading Ticketmaster; Ticketing product development; Ticket security

Executive summary

Saumil Mehta is global president of Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster's leadership page uses that title, while Live Nation's 2026 annual filing lists him as president of Ticketmaster. The company announced that his appointment became effective November 1, 2025.

His remit begins after ticketing has become one of the most scrutinised parts of the live economy. Product design, identity and security controls, transfer rules and the presentation of prices all affect how fans reach inventory and what they understand at checkout.

Ticketmaster is owned by Live Nation Entertainment, but its operating leadership is distinct from Live Nation's touring division. This profile reuses the existing internal organisation IDs so the graph represents that corporate relationship without merging the entities.

Why Saumil Mehta matters in live music

Primary ticketing is infrastructure: it controls onsales, seat maps, mobile credentials, transfer and much of the data that venues and promoters use. Ticketmaster's scale makes changes to those systems consequential across the market.

Mehta's tenure is also relevant to competition and consumer-protection research because technical changes arrive while regulators and courts are examining the parent company's structure and ticketing conduct.

Career record

  1. Before 2025Built a career in technology and product leadership before joining Ticketmaster.
  2. November 1, 2025Became global president of Ticketmaster.
  3. CurrentLeads Ticketmaster; Live Nation's filing lists him as president of the subsidiary.

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.

Primary ticketing
Core
He leads Ticketmaster, a primary ticketing platform operating at global scale.
Ticket security
Major
Current Ticketmaster releases place mobile-ticket security and fraud controls among the platform's priorities.
Ticketing product design
Major
The president's remit includes platform products and customer experience.
Concert promotion
Limited
Promotion sits elsewhere in the Live Nation group and is not his stated role.

Entity relationships

Current

Timeline

  1. October 2025Ticketmaster announced his appointment.
  2. November 1, 2025Appointment became effective.
  3. 2026Current role restated by Ticketmaster and Live Nation.

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