The Smartest People In The Room^®

Matt Zarracina and John Valentine

Matt Zarracina is the co-founder and CEO of True Tickets, a platform that provides promoters and venue owners understand who's using actually tickets — not just who bought them. Throughout his career, he's been leveraging technology, blockchain, and AI to working to improve business processes in many industries.

John Valentine is the head of business development point.me, a real-time search and booking engine that makes it easy to book flights with points. Like his pal Matt, he has spent his career helping early stage companies with go-to-market strategies, growing and ultimately being acquired.

The Smartest People In The Room^® is a series of one-on-one conversations between music industry executives and personalities hosted by Tom Truitt, Managing Director of the Music & Live Entertainment practice. These hour long conversations draw an audience of hundreds and feature every type of global music industry executive, including agents, managers, attorneys, business managers, promoters, publishers, working musicians, songwriters. The audience is global, with strong concentration in music business centers like New York City, Los Angeles, Nashville, London, Toronto, San Francisco, Austin and more.