Avant Gardner has named Josh Wyatt its new CEO. He formally took cost of the membership advanced that homes Brooklyn Mirage, the Kings Corridor, and Nice Corridor yesterday. As CEO, he’ll oversee a wave of additives to one in every of North America’s greatest membership websites together with a music venue that doubles as a mocktail bar, a hi-fi listening room, new VIP areas, and an artwork and visible program.
The appointment of Wyatt, who has lengthy labored alongside enterprise capital and personal fairness within the hospitality and nightlife sectors, follows the implosion of Electrical Zoo after its chaotic 2023 version, a 12 months after the competition’s acquisition by Avant Gardner. That resulted in a much-delayed refund course of, a class-action lawsuit by pissed off followers, and loads of work for Wyatt to make amends. “It’s one thing I wished to handle head-on,” he advised Billboard. “If I had been to make a constructive criticism of the corporate up to now, it’s that they haven’t at all times executed a superb job of speaking with the varied [Electric Zoo] stakeholders.”
