Pollstar’s 2025 Impact 50 Honorees

Welcome to Pollstar’s 2025 Impact 50, our annual list recognizing the top executives in the live industry. These best-in-class leaders are selected by our editorial team based on Pollstar Boxoffice data combined with an examination of their extraordinary accomplishments and demonstrated excellence over the last year in this business.

Nadine Eliya, 2025’s Impact 50 cover honoree and Shakira’s manager, personifies this. She helped engineer the Colombian superstar’s wildly successful comeback after being off the road for seven years and facing myriad challenges. One would never know this looking at the runaway success of the She Wolf’s aptly named “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour” (“Women No Longer Cry”), which is the second highest grossing tour on Pollstar’s 2025’s Mid-Year Top 100 Worldwide Tours.

This year’s honorees are shifting paradigms and are thankfully our most diverse class yet with nearly half of Pollstar’s 50 honorees either people of color, women and/or LGTBQ. While we understand this industry is still a long way from parity, we also recognize it’s come a long way. When we started this list diversity was challenging to find in this industry; today, we are grateful this more inclusive slate of honorees happened organically with this business’ best-in-class executives having more varied hues than ever before.

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2025 Impact 50 Cover Honoree
Nadine Eliya
CEO of Versatile Creative

2025 Impact 50 Honorees