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Brad Griffith would like you to leave the house
A printer nearly kept Brad Griffith out of a Giants playoff game. He built Gametime to make getting in easier - and has spent the years since thinking about what gets people off the couch.
Brian Fenty has a seat for you
A friendship made at theatre camp became TodayTix. Now Brian Fenty is taking the same question from Broadway ticket queues to Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap: how do you bring the next audience through the door?
Steve Brown and the business of a day out
He started selling merchandise at Disney, built a ticketing business, and opened a café inspired by his mother’s kitchen. Steve Brown’s career connects the machinery of a day out with the details people remember.
Eric Baker and the price of a second act
He co-founded StubHub, lost his place in it, and built the company that bought it back for $4.05 billion. Eric Baker’s return is a story about tickets, ownership, and the stubborn business of getting back in.
Chris O’Brien and the price of a pleasant surprise
He built TickPick’s technology, then helped turn a complaint about ticket fees into a business. For Chris O’Brien, the next question is what happens after the fan gets through the gate.
Ant Taylor and the trouble with an empty seat
A sold-out Olympic event with room to spare sent Ant Taylor into ticketing. His journey through Lyte, its shutdown and a new role in AI is a story about the distance between a clever system and a working business.
Michael Nabarro and the Art of Getting Out of the Way
A computer science graduate with a lighting desk habit, Michael Nabarro built Spektrix after running a theatre. His work keeps returning to the same question: what could people do if the machinery stopped getting in their way?
Travis Janovich and the business of getting in
He wanted a concert ticket he could print at home. Etix led Travis Janovich into the workings of live entertainment, from venue software to a stake in Raleigh’s Hopscotch Music Festival.
Brett Goldberg and the price of a simple night out
A few spare concert tickets sent Brett Goldberg into the resale business. With TickPick, he and his college roommate turned a familiar checkout irritation into a company built around showing the price upfront.
Jeff Kreuser and the price of a promise
A two-month software project became a ten-month disappointment. For Softjourn co-founder and CEO Jeff Kreuser, that familiar story explains why the work begins before the coding does.
Avante Price Is Building the Exit Door From the Feed
He learned to DJ at five, built a marketplace at 15, and left NYU to turn a student-party workaround into Posh. His wager is simple: the next useful social network may be the one that persuades you to close it.
Jack Groetzinger
Jack Groetzinger is the co-founder and CEO of SeatGeek, the mobile-first ticketing platform he started in 2009 to make buying and selling tickets for sports, concerts and theater simpler and more transparent. Under his leadership SeatGeek has raised roughly $400 million, reached a valuation above $1 billion, and won primary-ticketing deals with Major League Soccer, the Dallas Cowboys, the Brooklyn Nets and dozens of Broadway theaters. A Dartmouth economics graduate and serial entrepreneur, Groetzinger has become one of the most vocal challengers to Ticketmaster's dominance, testifying before the U.S. Senate on competition in live-event ticketing.
Sara Providence
Sara Providence is Vice President and Chief of Staff to the CEO at SeatGeek, the New York-based ticketing marketplace. She arrived from McKinsey & Company in 2023, bringing an unusual triple-degree background - a BA from Harvard, a JD from Columbia Law, and an MBA from Columbia Business School - to the corner office of a company whose product is essentially the trust that a stranger's PDF will get you into a stadium.
Andrei Stefan
Andrei Stefan is the co-founder and CEO of Oveit, an Austin-based event technology company that bundles smart ticketing, online bookings, access control and cashless payments into one platform. A Romanian operator with two decades in general management and finance, he moved from corporate boardrooms into startups, helped build a live-shopping and streaming platform during the pandemic, and pushed Oveit early into NFT and blockchain-based tickets through partnerships with Crypto.com and Polygon. Oveit was named by the UN World Tourism Organization in 2019 as one of the five most disruptive startups in tourism.
Mark Kozlowski
Mark Kozlowski is the founder and CEO of Upped Events, a Philadelphia event-experience platform he built to drag festivals, fairs and community events out of the spreadsheet era. A Penn State and Wharton-trained operator, he started by trying to pour a beer in under ten seconds (BeerMe), then turned that obsession with friction into a full registration, contactless-payment and analytics stack. In May 2025 Upped was acquired by Events.com.
Steven Sunshine
Steven Sunshine is the CEO of Ticketure, the cloud ticketing platform that runs admissions, memberships and donations for museums, zoos, aquariums, gardens and immersive venues from Meow Wolf to the Philadelphia Zoo. He co-founded TixTrack in 2008 and ran it through acquisition by The Nederlander Organization in 2022; in July 2025 the Ticketure business was spun out as a standalone company backed by Dahlia Equity, with Sunshine at the helm. Before ticketing he spent the late 1990s and early 2000s commercializing the 'electronic nose' as president and CEO of Cyrano Sciences, a Caltech spinout whose handheld Cyranose device used a 32-polymer sensor array to identify smells, later acquired by Smiths Detection.
Ari Daie
Ari Daie is the founder, CEO and president of FEVO, a New York social-commerce platform that turns the lonely online checkout into a group activity. After a career that ran through Goldman Sachs, two startups he built and sold, and a senior dealmaking seat at Ticketmaster/Live Nation, Daie built FEVO on a simple bet: people would rather buy tickets and merchandise together than alone. The platform now powers more than 750 partners across the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, MLS and Formula 1, and FEVO has reported scaling past a billion dollars in sales while raising tens of millions in venture funding.
Nathan Stewart
Nathan Stewart is a founding engineer at Merge (merge.dev), the unified API platform that lets B2B SaaS companies connect to hundreds of HRIS, ATS, CRM, accounting, and ticketing systems through a single integration. Based in New York and educated at The Ohio State University, Stewart is a backend developer who joined Merge in its early days and has helped scale the company to over 140 employees and $74.5M in funding. He describes himself as a 'Software Engineer & Puzzle Aficionado,' an apt description for someone building the connective infrastructure that keeps the modern SaaS stack wired together.
Bob Kupbens
Bob Kupbens is the Chief Executive Officer of StubHub International, the world's largest ticket marketplace, a role he assumed in January 2024. A seasoned digital commerce executive with an MIT engineering pedigree and Michigan MBA, Kupbens has spent three decades reshaping how consumers interact with major brands - from launching the Fly Delta mobile app at Delta Air Lines to running Apple's global online retail operation to orchestrating the ADT-Google partnership. Now based in Madrid while living in Millbrae, California, he is focused on deploying AI-driven customer experience improvements and defending StubHub International's position in key markets like the UK.
Humza Rahat Siddiqui
Humza Rahat Siddiqui is a UK-based content development and marketing specialist currently working as Ticketing & Support at Virgin Atlantic's Heathrow Airport operations. With a cross-industry career spanning digital marketing, aviation, supply chain, and corporate communications, he has driven social media growth to over 200,000 Facebook followers, collaborated with aviation executives to build a new airline training academy in Pakistan, and contributed content for high-profile events including Pakistan Fashion Week and Unilever product launches. His academic background combines a BSc in International Business from Coventry University with an MSc in Supply Chain from the University of South Wales.
Kevin Hartz
Kevin Hartz is a Silicon Valley serial founder and venture investor who co-founded Eventbrite (NYSE: EB) and Xoom (acquired by PayPal for $1.1B), made seed-stage bets on PayPal, Airbnb, Uber, Pinterest, Palantir, Square, Stripe, and Slack, and now runs A* Capital — a $300M early-stage fund that bets heavily on teenage founders. His career spans 30+ years of building and backing transformative tech companies from Berkeley to the world stage.