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Dan DeMato

President, FutureTix

Dan DeMato is the President and Founder of FutureTix, the premier consulting company in the United States that specializes in consulting on ticketing practices and technologies for arenas, sports teams, universities, cultural institutions, and other entertainment attractions. Along with managing his crew of industry specialists, Dan enjoys working one-on-one with clients to manage and oversee projects, guiding potential opportunities into successful ventures. With over 30 years of ticketing sales and operations experience, Dan often draws upon his secret weapon, a network of contacts that includes some of the most progressive and savvy ticketing professionals in the business. Dan puts both this wealth of contacts and his own experience at his clients’ disposal through FutureTix.

Dan started FutureTix in 2008; as he recognized the need for someone to help organizations, both venues and vendors, stay abreast of the latest technologies, determine which ones were right for them, and to create a roadmap to bring them to fruition. During this time he worked with organizations across multiple genres and explored various platforms and third party solutions, gaining invaluable insight into industry trends and best practices. As the President of FutureTix, Dan strives to remain true to his self-pledged obligation of being on the forefront of ticketing by offering innovative consulting services that lead to smarter ticketing both for his clients and their patrons.

Dan has served as a speaker at industry conferences, including INTIX, ticketing platform user conferences, college conferences, regional ticketing associations, NATB and the MLB business meetings. In 2015, Dan was given the prestigious honor of winning the INTIX Life Time Acheivement Award.

As a longtime member of INTIX, Dan has served on the Standards and Ethics committee and as a Board Member. Additionally, for the past several years, he has also had the privilege of hosting the annual FutureTix Ticketing Symposium which takes place in a different city each year, offering a one day educational and networking event to live entertainment professionals within the area.

Prior to starting FutureTix, Dan had the opportunity to work with one of the finest box office crews in the industry, allowing him to enjoy many accomplishments while overseeing the ticket operations for the New York Mets. This fast-paced, high-tech environment processed in excess of 4,000,000 tickets in each of his last years and realized record setting ticket and ancillary revenues. At the New York Mets, Dan’s office ticketed World Series and National League Championship baseball; Rolling Stones, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel concerts; as well as International Soccer and other events. He has conducted numerous multi-channeled high-volume single day ‘on sales’, many in excess of 150,000 tickets. For 12 years of his Mets’ tenure Dan maintained all aspects of an in-house ticketing system as a profit center, including product functionality research and development.

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