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Eventbrite boosts dance music credentials with new hires
By Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 29 July 2016
Ticketing platform Eventbrite has hired three new execs from the dance music and clubbing scenes in the US in a bid to enhance the firm’s services for and reach within that community.
Two of the new hires, Barak Schurr and Diego Carlin, come from the clubbing-focused Wanttickets.com, a rival ticketing platform that the former founded and the latter ran as CEO. The third is Senthil Chidambaram, founder of dance music website Dancing Astronaut, which he will continue to oversee in addition to his new full-time role with Eventbrite.
Confirming the new appointments, Eventbrite’s Director Of Music & Live Events, Greg Patterson, told reporters: “We’re excited to further our commitment within the dance music market and extend our proven success in dance music festivals to nightclubs and venues”.
He went on: “Barak, Diego, and Senthil share Eventbrite’s passion for live experiences and an aligned interest in helping nightclubs and venues run their event business as smoothly as possible. We look forward to marrying their deep industry knowledge with our global leadership in event technology to better serve this important and fast-growing part of the music ecosystem”.
