The CEO and co-founder of SAVELIVE, a platform created in 2020 to help live music venues recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Geiger co-founded Lollapalooza and ARTISTdirect.
10 Facts About Marc Geiger
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Marc Geiger was the global head of the William Morris Endeavor Music Division from 2003 until 2020.
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Marc Geiger was born in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up in Stamford, Connecticut.
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Marc Geiger moved with his family to Palo Alto, California after his father, a Budapest, Hungary-born Holocaust survivor, accepted a job as a satellite communication engineer in Silicon Valley.
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Marc Geiger would go on to create the Lollapalooza Festival with Jane's Perry Farrell and veteran agent Don Muller.
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Marc Geiger served as CEO and Vice Chairman of ARTISTdirect until 2003.
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Marc Geiger went public in March 2000, one week prior to the stock market crash of 2000.
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Marc Geiger left ARTISTdirect in 2003 to join The William Morris Agency as a Senior Vice President in the music division.
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Marc Geiger left WME in June 2020; it was rumored that he would take on a senior role at Spotify.
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In 2020, Marc Geiger founded SAVELIVE, an initiative to offset the economic impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on live music venues.