2025 Impact NextGen Honoree: Kyle Jean

KYLE JEAN
Director, Event Accounting
Los Angeles Football Club / BMO Stadium

WHAT WILL MAKE HIM A GREAT BOSS: “With the increased advancement in AI and data, still understanding that employees are individual humans and can’t be distilled into 1’s and 0’s.

Live events have not only become Kyle Jean’s life, but it led him to meet his wife. Jean, 35, recalls that early in his career a promoter rep took him to the front row of a Bruce Springsteen show and he stayed all the way through the encore “in awe,” noting, “the music business 100% got into my blood at that point and I knew I would be doing this for life.”

Jean got his start as a Tour Business Manager at Feld Entertainment with Disney on Ice/Disney Live and Ringling Brothers Circus, giving him the chance to travel to about every venue, theater, and city in the U.S. as well as Japan, Taiwan and Australia. He adds, “I also met my wife at Feld, who was one of the Disney performers.”

Jean has spent the last five years as the Director, Event Accounting at Los Angeles Football Club / BMO Stadium. It’s a hybrid role involving settlements, forecasts and budgets related to concerts, soccer friendlies, and special events, as well as booking and negotiating soccer friendlies and assisting with concerts.

A highlight of the past year for Jean was helping turn BMO Stadium into a major international boxing destination in August 2024 with a bout topped by Terence Crawford that attracted 24,000 people.

Jean adds, “Eminem performed four songs before the final fight, which was very cool to see him perform live.”

Another show at BMO that blew Jean away was two nights of blink-182 in 2023. He recalls, “It was so cool to see them live. When I was a kid, an older friend gave me one of their CDs, which was promptly taken away from me by my parents. It always gives me a laugh to think about anytime I see them live.”

Jean points to Steve Nazro, the former event booker at TD Garden, as one of his mentors. Jean says. “I had the chance to work directly with him for a few years before he retired. He had loads of live entertainment stories dating back to the ’60s and ’70s. Steve had seen it all in this business and through those stories was able to convey meaningful lessons via laugh-out-loud storytelling. He always had the perfect anecdote for any situation.”

Asked about how we can help improve the world in these trying times, Jean says: “I think whatever your political stripe, everyone loves music. Concerts are a great chance for everyone to come together no matter their differences and enjoy a live show away from reality for a few hours.”

Upcoming concerts at BMO Stadium include ATEEZ, $uicideboy$, Netón Vega, TOMORROW X TOGETHER and Twenty One Pilots.