Jeremy Young, EVP of Business Development at RockForce, took the stage at Pollstar Live! 2026 at Loews Hollywood as a panelist on Tour Logistics: The Fine Art of Being in the Right Place at the Right Time — a session built around a premise that the live entertainment industry knows but rarely talks about openly: the moment audiences see on show day is the product of hundreds of decisions made weeks and months earlier, by people the audience will never see.
Moderated by Steve Dixon, the panel paired Jeremy with Wayne Linder (Pioneer Coach), Ben Ikwuagwu (Soundcheck Live), Shelbi Curtis-Moehle (Family Entertainment Live), and a representative from United Talent Agency — a deliberately cross-functional lineup spanning booking, transport, technology, operations, and workforce. The conversation moved through three areas: the pre-production decisions that determine whether a tour ever has a chance to succeed; what separates the teams that recover cleanly when something breaks from the ones that spiral; and where the tour ecosystem is actually heading in the next five years versus where it is most resistant to change.
Jeremy's vantage on those questions is unusual. Over nearly three decades in live entertainment, he has worked the venue marketing side at SFX/Clear Channel in Cincinnati, tour managed acts including Maroon 5, Gavin DeGraw, and All American Rejects, managed Gavin DeGraw's career through Vector Management/Live Nation, and spent the latter part of his career inside touring, festival, and venue payroll at CAPS / Cast & Crew Live Entertainment before joining RockForce in 2024. That arc — artist side to operations side to workforce and payroll infrastructure — is exactly the lens the panel was built to surface.
It is also the lens RockForce brings to the market every day. Tours, festivals, and stadium events do not run on goodwill; they run on the people, contracts, payroll, and crew systems that get deployed long before a single truck rolls. That is the work RockForce is built to do.
