Vivid Seats brings in Stan Chia as CEO
Former Grubhub COO Chia will take Vivid Seats to the "next phase of its corporate evolution", says Jerry Bednyak, co-founder of the leading US ticket marketplace
News By IQ | 29 October 2018
US secondary ticketing platform Vivid Seats has hired Stan Chia as CEO. Chia was formerly COO of online food ordering service Grubhub, and has previously held senior roles at Amazon, Cisco and General Electric.
He will take over daily operations at Vivid Seats – the largest independent ticket resale service North America, and a competitor to the likes of Ticketmaster Resale/TicketsNow and eBay-owned StubHub – from co-founders Eric Vassilatos and Jerry Bednyak, who remain co-chairmen of the company’s board.
“Stan’s…