Kylie Jeffrey has joined Australasian concert promoter Frontier Touring as Ticketing Director, while Claire Marshall will take on the role of Partnerships Director.
Jeffrey has worked in a variety of roles in ticketing and event operations.
Jeffrey was most recently National Tours Manager at Ticketek, where she worked across a number of major stadium and arena tours, music festivals and theatre shows.
Jeffrey’s career highlights include Robbie Williams’ stadium tour in 2006, Elton John’s 2019/2020 Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, Prince’s final tour in 2016, Live Earth in 2007, Fire Fight 2020, P!NK, One Direction, Taylor Swift, and Ed Sheeran’s 2018 tour.
Jeffrey will report to Frontier COO Susan Heymann, and will work across the company’s repertoire of tours.
Claire Marshall previously spent 17 years at Nova Entertainment, where she held various leadership roles in programming before becoming Music Marketing Director for the network in 2014.
At Nova, Marshall helped lead procurement of over 200 live music events for the network, and mediated commercial opportunities for music partners and artists.
Marshall moved to Sony Music Entertainment as Senior Director, Catalogue Streaming & Strategic Partnerships, in 2020.
There, she led the marketing of catalog repertoire on streaming platforms, and developed brand partnerships for Sony Music artists.
Marshall reports to Frontier CMCO Reegan Stark.
“The appointment of Kylie and Claire is another exciting step for Frontier Touring, adding to our talented team.”
Dion Brant, Frontier Touring
Dion Brant, Frontier Touring CEO, said: “The appointment of Kylie and Claire is another exciting step for Frontier Touring, adding to our talented team.
“Frontier has a long and rich history with Claire in her previous roles, and we built great mutual respect and rapport over many highly successful projects.
“Kylie, I have personally known and worked with for 24 years. The regard with which she is held across our industry is deserved and reflects her incredible character and work ethic.
“Frontier is built on its great people and with these appointments we are bringing in two of the best as we look to some exciting touring times ahead.”
In March, Frontier Touring announced a new leadership structure for the company which, it said at the time, was created to “ensure the legacy, mission, and culture of Frontier is preserved and nurtured” following the passing of its founder Michael Gudinski in March 2021.
In 2019, the company also entered into a strategic joint venture with AEG Presents.Music Business Worldwide