Nathan Hubbard
Nathan Hubbard
Nathan Hubbard is an American Business Executive and Musician who served as CEO of Ticketmaster and Vice President of Global Media and Commerce at Twitter.
He is based in Los Angeles, California.
Early Life and Education
Speaking at an event
Nathan grew up in Maryland and graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School. He attended Princeton University and graduated Suma cum laude in 1997 with a degree in Politics. He earned his MBA in 2004 from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Professional Career
Nathan was the CEO of Musictoday from 2002-2006.
In January of 2007, he was appointed the CEO of Ticketmaster after Live Nation acquired MusicToday. During his tenure, Nathan led a dramatic turnaround of the business by pioneering the integration of primary and secondary ticketing, and leading the broad scale launch of dynamic pricing and analytics. After his success at Ticketmaster, Nathan brought his knowledge and expertise to Twitter as Vice President of Global Media and Commerce. Nathan led the company's media and commerce strategies and pushed into distributed mobile commerce in the social and messaging space, building innovative products for merchants, brands, and influencers to build direct distribution relationships with consumers on the platform. In addition, he managed the global team responsible for all content acquisition on the platform around the world, working across media companies and culture influencers to bring the most engaging and real-time content to Twitter every day. He announced his departure from Twitter in a tweet thread and explained that he wanted to spend more time with his family.
Personal Life
Nathan resides in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.
In his free time, Nathan enjoys songwriting and his in the band Rockwell Church which describes its music is wussy suburban accoustic rock.
He is a supporter of Charity Water which aims to bring clean and safe drinking water to people across the world.
Nathan writes articles for Bill Simmons' website, The Ringer.