AEG Presents chairman and CEO Jay Marciano will likely be honored with the Metropolis of Hope’s 2024 Spirit of Life Award, the most cancers analysis and therapy group has introduced.
“It’s deeply significant to be honored for this recognition,” says Marciano, an everyday entry in Billboard’s Energy 100 record. “Our business’s work contributes to bringing the brightest minds on the earth to make breakthrough medical discoveries — discoveries that give again the reward of time to individuals.”
The award is the charitable group’s most prestigious honor and is introduced these business leaders who’ve made notable contributions to their neighborhood and occupation.
Earlier recipients from the music business embody Lyor Cohen, Shelli and Irving Azoff, Edgar Bronfman Jr., Coran Capshaw, Eddy Cue, Clive Davis, Sir Lucian Grainge, Sylvia Rhone and extra.
“I’m honored to affix this admirable group of Spirit of Life recipients,” Marciano provides, “and stay up for persevering with the custom of leaning on music, movie and the humanities to boost consciousness of and funding for Metropolis of Hope’s vital work in opposition to most cancers, diabetes and different life-threatening illnesses.”
Metropolis of Hope’s Music, Movie and Leisure Trade fundraising group will current Marciano with the award throughout a gala dinner this fall in Los Angeles.
A pacesetter within the stay leisure enterprise, Marciano started presenting reveals in his 20s, earlier than taking over senior management roles at Common Concert events, AEG Europe and Madison Sq. Backyard Leisure, then returning to the AEG fold in 2011.
With Marciano on the helm, AEG Presents has promoted excursions from most of the music business’s greatest artists, together with stadium juggernauts Elton John, the Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran, and overseen a pageant portfolio upwards of 30 manufacturers from Coachella Valley Music and Arts Pageant to Stagecoach, Electrical Forest, British Summertime Hyde Park and extra.
Marciano has additionally overseen the corporate’s international development with the opening of a number of worldwide workplaces and an growth into Australia, Singapore, Japan and France.
In its 50-plus-year historical past, Metropolis of Hope’s MFEI group has raised over $150 million for good causes, particularly most cancers analysis. Marciano has a popularity “as an business chief who is raring to speed up Metropolis of Hope’s mission and give attention to making breakthrough discoveries that transfer us nearer to placing an finish to most cancers,” mentioned Kristin Bertell, chief philanthropy officer at Metropolis of Hope. “We stay up for partnering with him and the bigger music neighborhood to develop new cures, save affected person lives and be sure that everybody has an equal alternative to safe their highest degree of well being.”
The announcement launches Metropolis of Hope’s year-long fundraising initiatives that embody the Style of Hope in NYC in April, Future Hope Poker Event and Songs of Hope.
To contribute or be taught extra go to jaymarcianospiritoflife.com and cityofhope.org.
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