Songkick loses a CEO, gains a chairman

The dual-CEO setup at the music discovery-cum-ticketing service has come to an end, with Crowdsurge founder Matt Jones remaining CEO and Ian Hogarth becoming chairman

News By IQ | 7 January 2016

Ian Hogarth (left) and Matt Jones © Songkick

Songkick’s Matt Jones has become sole chief executive officer of the famously dual-CEOed music-discovery and ticketing service. Company founder and former co-CEO Ian Hogarth will move into the role of chairman.

The Silicon Roundabout-based concert-tracking website merged with white-label ticketing company Crowdsurge, founded by Jones, in June, creating the world’s largest artist-to-fan ticketing platform. Hogarth told IQ at the time that combining forces would help Songkick expand its ticketing business in America, where many venues have exclusivity deals…

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