Dion Brant, the CEO of AEG Presents\u2019 Australian concert promoter Frontier Touring, has been appointed President and CEO of AEG Presents Asia Pacific, effective immediately.<\/p>\n
Brant will continue in his role as chief executive at Frontier Touring, and will retain his seat on the company\u2019s Board of Directors working out of Melbourne, AEG said in a statement on Tuesday (July 8).<\/p>\n
In his new roles, Brant will report to Adam Wilkes<\/strong>, President and CEO of AEG Presents Europe and Asia Pacific. He will spearhead AEG Presents\u2019 ongoing growth and development in Asia, working to further strengthen the company\u2019s footprint and strategic direction.<\/p>\n Brant\u2019s involvement with Frontier Touring began in 2013, when he was recruited by the Mushroom Group<\/strong> to head strategy and development across the company. He moved full-time to Frontier Touring a year later.<\/p>\n He worked closely with Mushroom Group and Frontier co-founder Michael Gudinski<\/strong>, and was a key player in negotiating Frontier\u2019s joint venture with AEG Presents<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n Brant took on the CEO role at Frontier following Gudinski\u2019s untimely passing<\/a> in 2021, after which AEG Presents took a controlling stake in the company.<\/p>\n \u201cDion is a highly respected executive who has played an integral role in our success,\u201d Wilkes said in a statement.<\/p>\n \u201cHis leadership at Frontier has been transformational, proving he\u2019s a steady hand capable of guiding our business into the future. I couldn\u2019t be happier to name Dion to this position.\u201d<\/p>\n “[Dion’s] leadership at Frontier has been transformational.”<\/p>\n Adam Wilkes, AEG Presents<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Brant added: \u201cI’ve worked closely with Adam for over a decade and have first-hand knowledge of the exceptional team he has built in AEG Presents\u2019 Asia Pacific operations. And of course, our incredibly talented group at Frontier gives me the ability to split my time and take on this extra responsibility with the confidence that we\u2019ll continue to lead the Australia and New Zealand markets.<\/p>\n \u201cI look forward to getting involved and helping to maintain positive momentum from what has been a successful period under Adam’s leadership. This further opens opportunities for us to bring the Frontier Touring and Asia Pacific businesses closer together, sharing insights, building capabilities, and enhancing our offering for artists across the region.\u201d<\/p>\n Brant\u2019s appointment comes in the wake of a spate of personnel changes at the top of AEG Presents, notably a restructuring in January under which Wilkes assumed responsibility<\/a> for AEG Presents\u2019 European and Asia-Pacific operations, while Alex Hill<\/strong> assumed leadership<\/a> of all of AEG\u2019s global real estate and venue operations outside of the US, in the new position of President and CEO, AEG International.<\/p>\n Shortly thereafter, Andrew Klein<\/strong> was promoted<\/a> to President of Global Partnerships. The company\u2019s Global Touring division has also seen new faces at the top, with Angie Rho<\/strong> named<\/a> Senior Vice President of the division last November, while Weston Herbert<\/strong> was named<\/a> Vice President in January.<\/p>\n “This further opens opportunities for us to bring the Frontier Touring and Asia Pacific businesses closer together.”<\/p>\n Dion Brant, Frontier Touring, AEG Presents<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n In March, AEG Presents promoted seven executives<\/a> to Senior Vice President roles in the Global Partnerships division, namely Andrew Bersch<\/strong>, Holli Branam<\/strong>, Samantha Fernandez<\/strong>, Brianne Grimley<\/strong>, Bret Heiman<\/strong>, Eric Kohler<\/strong>, and Alex McArthur<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Most recently, Andrew Spencer<\/strong> was named<\/a> Chief Operating Officer at AEG Presents Europe, and Joe Jaeger<\/strong> was promoted<\/a> to the role of AEG Presents’ Vice President, Integrated Marketing and Strategy.<\/p>\n A division of Anschutz Entertainment Group<\/strong>, AEG Presents is the world\u2019s second-largest live music and entertainment company, behind Live Nation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brant will report to Adam Wilkes, President and CEO of AEG Presents Europe and Asia Pacific<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":235713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[134389,4162,134388,5888],"class_list":["post-235712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-adam-wilkes","tag-aeg-presents","tag-dion-brant","tag-frontier-touring"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235712"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235793,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235712\/revisions\/235793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}