Treasury & Risk - December/January 2012

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One of a Kind
Live Nation Lives Large........ by RUSS banHam
Where does Kathy Willard find the time? As CFo of the giant entertainment and e-commerce company live Nation entertainment since 2007, Willard has handled the financial details of multiple divestitures, spin-offs and more than 200 acquisitions, including the prized though contentious acquisition
of Ticketmaster in 2010. she then pulled off a complex post-merger refinancing and integra-
tion of two massive companies, forging a singular business that has no equal in the industry.
Today, Willard manages an extraordinary global financial structure that supports more than
11,000 venue clients like New York’s madison square Garden for which Ticketmaster sells tickets,
and supports the concert tours at these venues that live Nation secures for more than 2,000 artists,
about 20,000 shows each year.