Touring Power Players: Billboard’s 2026 List Revealed
Categoria: Musica
As selected by Billboard's editors, these are the executives moving the live sector forward, from promoters and agents to marketing and production pros.
Por Billboard | 06/11/2026
As the live sector evolves with the times, Billboard ’s list of executives — led by MSG Entertainment’s Josephine Vaccarello — highlights the teams around artists devising new ways to serve and entertain audiences. Related Meet the ‘Unflappable’ Exec Bringing Superstars To Madison Square Garden and Sphere Kenny MacPherson, Veteran Music Publisher and Big Deal Music Co-Founder, Dies at 71 Diddy Moved From New Jersey Prison to Similar Facility in Pennsylvania Promoters AEG International Alex Hill President/CEO Adam Wilkes President/CEO of AEG Presents Europe and Asia-Pacific, AEG Presents John Langford President of Asia-Pacific Emma Bownes Senior vp of programming Simon Jones Senior vp of global touring international, AEG Presents AEG Presents Jay Marciano Chairman/CEO Rich Schaefer President of global touring Debra Rathwell Executive vp of global touring Michael Harrison Angie Rho Kelly Stelbasky Senior vps of global touring All Things Go Will Suter Stephen Vallimarescu Co-founders Another Planet Entertainment Sherry Wasserman Co-founder/president Gregg Perloff CEO Allen Scott President of concerts and festivals; co-founder/producer of Outside Lands Bizarro Live Entertainment Alfredo Alonso Founder, Bizarro Chile; president, Live Nation Peru Daniel Merino Entertainment director, Bizarro Chile; entertainment director, Live Nation Peru Black Promoters Collective Gary Guidry Partner/CEO Shelby Joyner Partner/president Troy Brown Partner/chief marketing officer William “Bill” Ingram Partner/CFO Shahida Mausi Partner/chief strategy officer/senior vp Breakaway Adam Lynn Co-founder/CEO Zach Ruben Co-founder C3 Presents Charles Attal Charlie Walker Partners Amy Corbin Promoter; South region president, U.S. Concerts, Live Nation Huston Powell Promoter Cárdenas Marketing Network Henry Cárdenas CEO Alex Cárdenas Carolina Daza Senior vps of live entertainment City Parks Foundation SummerStage Erika Elliott Executive artistic director Goose at Central Park SummerStage in June. Merissa Blitz This year, SummerStage marked a monumental accomplishment — 40 years providing free concerts for New Yorkers — with a similarly monumental season. “We were lucky enough to get some really amazing funders who gifted us with additional resources to celebrate the 40th,” executive artistic director Erika Elliott says. “It gave us a chance to look back and also look forward.” That included shows with “important cultural icons — and distinctly New York people” including La India, Angélique Kidjo and Laurie Anderson, “bookings that felt really intentional.” This season’s programming spoke to the diversity of the five boroughs. “No other festival is doing a Taiwanese day, or a dedicated C-pop [Chinese pop] day, or a day fully focused on Morocco,” she says. Another major moment came when the next-gen jam band Goose did a surprise pop-up show in June in Central Park the night after two Madison Square Garden gigs. Says Elliott: “For me, that was a big coup this year — to ha