Adam Wilkes is the President & CEO of AEG Asia Pacific, a role he has held since 2016. For two decades, Adam has been at the forefront of the live entertainment industry in Asia Pacific, initially as an event producer and promoter and more recently as the chief executive leading AEG’s strategic growth in the region. In this capacity, Wilkes and his team are responsible for overseeing AEG’s real estate development, venue management, corporate partnerships, and event ticketing businesses currently active through joint ventures in South Korea with CJ E&M, China with Oriental Pearl Group, Thailand with The Mall Group, and in Japan with Mitsubishi Corporation. Additionally, Wilkes serves as President & CEO of AEG Presents Asia Pacific, a global leader in the live entertainment industry, where he oversees the company’s concert touring, sports and live event business that spans fifteen countries across Asia and the Pacific Rim. In that capacity he played a leading role in forming joint ventures with Australia’s Frontier Touring and Japan’s Avex Entertainment, establishing AEG Presents as the market leading live event promoter across the region. In conjunction to his regional responsibilities at AEG, in early 2022 Wilkes assumed the role of Frontier Touring’s Chairman.
