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Eventbrite targets club sector with new hires

Barak Schurr and Diego Carlin of Wantickets and Dancing Astronaut's Senthil Chidambaram will spearhead Eventbrite's plans for the nightclub/DJ market

By IQ on 28 Jul 2016

Senthil Chidambaram, Barak Schurr, Eventbrite

Senthil Chidambaram and (right) Barak Schurr, two of Eventbrite's new hires


Barak Schurr and Diego Carlin, the former president and CEO, respectively, of recently sold US nightclub ticketer Wantickets, have joined Eventbrite.

They are joined by Senthil Chidambaram, founder and CEO of EDM news website Dancing Astronaut, as the event management and discovery platform plots further expansion into ticketing for dance music venues/nightclubs.

“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,” says Greg Patterson, Eventbrite’s director of music and live events.

“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”

“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.”

Wantickets was acquired by live music streaming service LiveXLive last week.

 


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