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 function as chief govt at Frontier Touring, and can retain his seat on the corporate’s Board of Administrators figuring out of Melbourne, AEG stated 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 growth 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 growth throughout the corporate. He moved full-time to Frontier Touring a 12 months later.
He labored intently 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 function 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 govt who has performed an integral function in our success,” Wilkes stated 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 intently 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 proficient group at Frontier offers me the power to separate my time and tackle this additional accountability with the arrogance that we’ll proceed to guide the Australia and New Zealand markets.
“I sit up for getting concerned and serving to to take care of constructive momentum from what has been a profitable interval beneath Adam’s management. This additional opens alternatives for us to carry 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 adjustments on the prime 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 World Partnerships. The corporate’s World Touring division has additionally seen new faces on the prime, 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 carry 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 World Partnerships division, specifically 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 function of AEG Presents’ Vice President, Built-in Advertising and marketing and Technique.
A division of Anschutz Leisure Group, AEG Presents is the world’s second-largest stay music and leisure firm, behind Stay Nation.Music Enterprise Worldwide