VenueConnect 2025

Todd Hunt
Senior Vice President
Venue Coalition


Todd Hunt, CVE is currently Senior Vice President for Venue Coalition, a live entertainment consulting company focused on booking artists, attractions, and touring productions in arena and theatre venues. Prior to assuming this role in May 2020, Hunt was Executive Director of the Cadence Bank Arena and Conference Center in Tupelo, MS for thirteen years. In that position he converted a struggling venue in a tertiary market into a source of pride for the community, landing artists such as Sir Elton John, Jason Aldean, James Taylor, Chris Stapleton, Tim & Faith, Cirque du Soleil, Eric Church, and many more. He oversaw various capital improvement projects focused on keeping the property current and was also instrumental in extending the facility’s naming rights deal through 2035. Hunt is very active in IAVM, currently serving as a member of the Arenas committee as well as on the Board of Regents for VMS. He chaired the VMS Board of Regents from 2018-2019 in addition to serving as a board member from 2015-2021. He has also served on the IAVM Board of Directors three separate times in addition to chairing the Arenas Committee. In 2022, Hunt received the Ray Ward Award at VMS, an honor recognizing his dedicated service and extraordinary contributions to the overall success and quality of the school. From 1999-2007, Hunt was the Director of Humphrey Coliseum and Athletic Concessions for Mississippi State University. He held his first general manager position from 1997-99 at the Tupelo Coliseum, where he negotiated the first venue naming rights deal in the state of Mississippi and brought professional sports (ice hockey and indoor soccer) to the area for the first time. He also held positions at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga and Auburn University, and he served as assistant venue manager of the Ocoee Whitewater Center during the 1996 Olympic Games.

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