2025 Women Of Live: Gillian Zucker

Gillian Zucker
CEO | Halo Sports & Entertainment
President Business Operations | LA Clippers & Intuit Dome

SHE SAID IT | “We hope each person noticed the care and attention to detail that went
into every decision made. If we did our job right when you walk out ot Intuit Dome, you
feel like we thought of you.”

It’s been a year since Steve Ballmer, the effusive and ebullient owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, announced the formation
of Halo Sports And Entertainment, which consolidated the Clippers, the team’s G League affiliate in San Diego, the iconic Kia Forum and the whizbang $2 billion Intuit Dome. And what a year it’s been for Gillian Zucker, the natural person for Ballmer to tap to lead this new conglomeration. She was, after all, his first major hire after purchasing the Clips a decade ago when she was named the team’s president of business operations.

In her first year helming the new group, Zucker opened the Intuit Dome to widespread acclaim.

A passion project for Ballmer and his team, the 18,000-seat basketball-first building features the 38,375 square foot Halo Board with its 233 million LEDs, seating with interactive features, bathrooms and concession stands numerous enough to meet Ballmer’s two-minutes-or-less standard and the intimidating Wall, a nearly endless row of seats behind one of the baskets that stats gurus have shown significantly impact opposing teams’ free throw percentage. But Intuit Dome is more than the headline features.

Details, front and back of house and including amenities in the referees’ locker room that NBA officials have clamored for for years, are what makes the building hum.

And hum it did when it co-hosted — along with its venerable big brother Kia Forum — the genre- and decade-sprawling, nearly six-hour FireAid show Jan. 30 to raise money in the wake of the wildfires that devastated Los Angeles in January.
In between, the Forum hosted its usual packed concert calendar, the Dome did plenty of its own — including multiples from Angelenos Olivia Rodrigo and Billie Eilish — and the Clippers are in the thick of the playoff chase.

There’ll be plenty more of that to keep Zucker and her team busy in the next few years before the world’s eyes turn once again to the corner of Century and Prairie. In 2028, Intuit Dome is slated to host basketball when the Summer Olympics return to Los Angeles.