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September 21-22, 2020
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Todd Goldstein

CRO, AEG

With more than 20 years’ experience in the sports and entertainment industry, Todd Goldstein serves as the Chief Revenue Officer for AEG.  In this capacity, he is responsible for the company’s global business development, marketing and sales functions, and oversees all its revenue generating operations which include AEG’s Global Partnerships division, its premium seating activities and LA LIVE.   
Under Goldstein’s leadership, AEG’s Global Partnerships division has grown its brand partner roster to over 1,000 companies, including such Fortune 500 brands as American Express, Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, Mercedes-Benz, Sky, Netflix, Microsoft, O2, T-Mobile, Toshiba, and Toyota among others.  The division, which represents AEG’s portfolio of facilities, sports, music, entertainment districts and real estate assets across five continents, delivers partners the largest sports and live music marketing network in the world.  With the ability to activate and engage customers at over 10,000 events annually, the AEG Global Partnerships division generates more than $550 million in revenues annually and was named “Best In Property Consulting, Sales and Client Services” for both 2017 and 2018 by the renowned industry trade publication, Sports Business Journal. 
 
As AEG’s Chief Revenue Officer, Goldstein also oversees AEG’s ownership agreement for the 1001-room JW Marriott and The Ritz-Carlton hotels at L.A. LIVE, as well as the 224-unit RitzCarlton Residences at L.A. LIVE. 
 
Since joining AEG in 2001, Goldstein has been instrumental in developing and executing the company’s global sales strategies including its premium seating activities and its sponsorship and naming rights agreements.  Under his direction, the company has secured comprehensive naming rights deals for Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena, Kansas City’s Sprint Center, San Diego’s Valley View Casino Center, Carson California’s StubHub Center and L.A. LIVE’s Microsoft Theater, among others.   
 
On the international front, Goldstein was directly involved with securing naming rights relationships for such properties as AccorHotels Arena in Paris, the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm and the Mercedes-Benz Arenas in Shanghai and Berlin, as well as the Mercedes Platz entertainment district in Berlin.  
 
Since the opening of LA LIVE in 2008, Goldstein has developed several stand-alone events that take place at the entertainment district, including the annual Nike 3ON3 Basketball Tournament and the All-Star Chef Classic. Additionally, he was involved with the creation of the GRAMMY Museum and the establishment of ESPN’s west coast broadcast headquarters at LA LIVE. 
 
Prior to joining AEG, Goldstein served as Vice President of Marketing and Director of Sales for Ascent Sports and Ascent Arena Company in Denver.  While there, he helped lead the production of the initial collateral materials for the Pepsi Center.  He also oversaw a division that was responsible for initiating and completing all sponsorship, suite-and club-seat sales and the naming rights agreement for the arena. 
 
Goldstein holds an MBA from the University of Colorado at Denver and received a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the University of Colorado at Boulder.  In 2009, 2010 and 2011, he received Sports Business Journal’s “Forty Under 40” award, being named as one of industry’s most influential sports executives under the age of 40.  Upon receiving the third award, he was inducted into the Sports Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 Hall of Fame. 
 
Goldstein is involved with and serves on a number of local and national boards including The GRAMMY Museum.  He previously served as a Board member for 2015 Special Olympics World Games and is being honored by the Special Olympics of Southern California at their Pier del Sol event in October 2018.   He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their three children.