Aki Kaneko
Veteran industry trade sales and sponsorships executive Aki Kaneko has joined Oak View Group's media and conferences division as vice president of sales.
Kaneko comes to OVG after nearly 20 years at Billboard, most recently as executive director of entertainment for the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group.
Kaneko will steer international advertising and sponsorship across all OVG media platforms and conferences, including Pollstar, Pollstar.com, Pollstar Daily Pulse, VenuesNow, VenuesNow.com, VenuesNow Pulse, and SportTechie.
He will also steer sponsorships sales for the PollstarLive! Conference & Awards, which will mark its 30th anniversary in 2019, and the VenuesNow Conference, which ran June 19-20.
Kaneko will work alongside recently appointed VP of Operations Jon Guynn and report directly to OVG Media & Conferences President Ray Waddell.