Dion Brant, the CEO of AEG Presents’ Australian live performance promoter Frontier Touring, has been appointed President and CEO of AEG Presents Asia Pacific, efficient instantly.
Brant will proceed in his position as chief government at Frontier Touring, and can retain his seat on the corporate’s Board of Administrators understanding of Melbourne, AEG mentioned in an announcement on Tuesday (July 8).
In his new roles, Brant will report back to Adam Wilkes, President and CEO of AEG Presents Europe and Asia Pacific. He’ll spearhead AEG Presents’ ongoing progress and improvement in Asia, working to additional strengthen the corporate’s footprint and strategic path.
Brant’s involvement with Frontier Touring started in 2013, when he was recruited by the Mushroom Group to go technique and improvement throughout the corporate. He moved full-time to Frontier Touring a 12 months later.
He labored carefully with Mushroom Group and Frontier co-founder Michael Gudinski, and was a key participant in negotiating Frontier’s three way partnership with AEG Presents in 2019.
Brant took on the CEO position at Frontier following Gudinski’s premature passing in 2021, after which AEG Presents took a controlling stake within the firm.
“Dion is a extremely revered government who has performed an integral position in our success,” Wilkes mentioned in an announcement.
“His management at Frontier has been transformational, proving he’s a gradual hand able to guiding our enterprise into the long run. I couldn’t be happier to call Dion to this place.”
“[Dion’s] management at Frontier has been transformational.”
Adam Wilkes, AEG Presents
Brant added: “I’ve labored carefully with Adam for over a decade and have first-hand information of the distinctive group he has inbuilt AEG Presents’ Asia Pacific operations. And naturally, our extremely gifted group at Frontier provides me the power to separate my time and tackle this further accountability with the boldness that we’ll proceed to steer the Australia and New Zealand markets.
“I sit up for getting concerned and serving to to keep up constructive momentum from what has been a profitable interval beneath Adam’s management. This additional opens alternatives for us to deliver the Frontier Touring and Asia Pacific companies nearer collectively, sharing insights, constructing capabilities, and enhancing our providing for artists throughout the area.”
Brant’s appointment comes within the wake of a spate of personnel modifications on the high of AEG Presents, notably a restructuring in January beneath which Wilkes assumed accountability for AEG Presents’ European and Asia-Pacific operations, whereas Alex Hill assumed management of all of AEG’s world actual property and venue operations exterior of the US, within the new place of President and CEO, AEG Worldwide.
Shortly thereafter, Andrew Klein was promoted to President of International Partnerships. The corporate’s International Touring division has additionally seen new faces on the high, with Angie Rho named Senior Vice President of the division final November, whereas Weston Herbert was named Vice President in January.
“This additional opens alternatives for us to deliver the Frontier Touring and Asia Pacific companies nearer collectively.”
Dion Brant, Frontier Touring, AEG Presents
In March, AEG Presents promoted seven executives to Senior Vice President roles within the International Partnerships division, particularly Andrew Bersch, Holli Branam, Samantha Fernandez, Brianne Grimley, Bret Heiman, Eric Kohler, and Alex McArthur.
Most just lately, Andrew Spencer was named Chief Working Officer at AEG Presents Europe, and Joe Jaeger was promoted to the position of AEG Presents’ Vice President, Built-in Advertising and Technique.
A division of Anschutz Leisure Group, AEG Presents is the world’s second-largest dwell music and leisure firm, behind Reside Nation.Music Enterprise Worldwide
