VISION
Who we are
We are a leading provider of management and hospitality services to venues and events, with a vast array of services including venue & event management; sponsorship; corporate hospitality; membership; catering; staffing; technology; marketing and communications.
Proud operator of Optus Stadium and Industree Group Stadium.
Owners
DARYL KERRY
MANAGING DIRECTOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
One of Australia’s most accomplished and respected venue and sporting administrators, with more than 30 years’ experience in sports business and the event and venue industry.
His career in the venue industry stretches back to the early 1980s when he joined the State Sports Centre, well before the Sydney Olympic Park precinct became the centrepiece for Sydney’s bid to host the Sydney 2000 Olympic & Paralympic Games.
In 1998, Daryl secured a lead role in venue management with the Sydney Olympic Games Organising Committee (SOCOG) and joined the consortium that won the right to design and build Sydney’s Olympic Stadium, playing a key role in operating the Olympic Stadium on behalf of SOCOG.
Daryl’s sports business acumen has helped secure and deliver some of Australia’s most iconic sport and entertainment events. He remains passionate about sport and events and recognises the central role that stadiums have as vibrant hubs of community activities, bringing people together and making a positive difference in our communities.
STEVE HEYTMAN
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER & CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Steve is a highly-respected commercial and finance professional who has teamed his expertise with sports administration for the past 25 years.
Like Daryl, Steve has been with the core venue management team since prior to the Sydney 2000 Olympic & Paralympic Games and has played a key role in the execution of many of Australia’s most iconic sport and entertainment events. He is passionate about recreation as a way of binding family and friends and has seen first-hand how sport and entertainment contribute to economic growth through business investment and employment while also instilling a sense of city, community and national pride.
Steve has been central to various restructures of the business including the ICG Diversified Infrastructure Trust’s acquisition of Stadium Australia in 2007 and the delisting of the Stadium Australia Group, the acquisition of catering from Sodexho and internalising the catering operation at our venues, early reversion of ANZ Stadium to the NSW Government in 2016, and the ultimate establishment of VenuesLive.
He is Chief Operating Officer at VenuesLive and plays a lead role in all major event and commercial negotiations.
ASM GLOBAL
THE WORLD’S LEADING PRODUCER OF ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCES
ASM Global is a core partner of the VenuesLive business.
As the world’s leading venue management company and producer of live event experiences, ASM Global is the preeminent management and content partner with over 325 premier venues worldwide.
ASM Global is the No.1 partner of the world’s leading event promoters, annually hosting more concerts, professional and minor league sports, family shows, conventions, exhibitions and events.
As a company, it delivers live experiences to 164 million guests across five continents at 20,000-plus events hosting sports, music, entertainment and business.
