Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Eventbrite names Casey Winters as Chief Product Officer | Music Business Worldwide

Ticketing and event technology platform Eventbrite has hired Casey Winters as Chief Product Officer.

Winters will lead the global product management, design and research teams.

Winters has advised companies including Airbnb, Tinder, reddit, Thumbtack, Canva, and Hipcamp.

Most recently, he served as a strategic advisor to Eventbrite, where he was focused on identifying and creating new opportunities for consumers to engage with the platform, including increased personalization of event recommendations and the ability to follow creators.

In 2018, Eventbrite served 795,000 creators, processing 265 million tickets to nearly 4 million events around the world.

“Casey is both a proven industry leader and an advisor who deeply understands our business and our customers, which positions him to make an immediate impact in this new role.”

Julia Hartz, Eventbrite 

Winters said: “For the past two years, I’ve analyzed the behaviors of event attendees and the complex needs of event creators and developed products to find creative and impactful ways to meet their needs.

“I’m excited for this new opportunity to work with the world-class product and engineering team at Eventbrite to craft and execute a product strategy and vision that will better serve all of our customers, both immediately and in the long term.”

“For the past two years, I’ve analyzed the behaviors of event attendees and the complex needs of event creators and developed products to find creative and impactful ways to meet their needs.”

Casey Winters 

Julia Hartz, co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite added: “Casey is both a proven industry leader and an advisor who deeply understands our business and our customers, which positions him to make an immediate impact in this new role.

“The opportunity in front of us is massive, both across our self-sign on business and with our higher touch creators like music venues, promoters and festivals.

“Casey brings the exact type of leadership that will guide us to continue striking the right balance between continuous product innovation, serving a diverse set of customer needs and accelerated growth.”Music Business Worldwide

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