Nickole brings more than 20 years of extensive experience leading both business development, as well as business and operating units. A seasoned sports and entertainment industry executive with the heart and passion of a thoughtful entrepreneur, she has led multimillion global partnerships with several key Fortune 500 companies throughout her career and built a vast and strong network of connections with the entertainment industry. Prior to joining Cirque, she worked for AEG Worldwide where she headed the Global Portfolio division and oversaw the business development for AEG’s collection of global properties. As such, she engineered first-in-class partnerships for AEG’s top music festivals (namely Coachella and Stagecoach), naming rights of world class facilities (such as Crypto.com Arena and LA Live), and for storied sports franchises (with LA Kings and LA Galaxy). Previously, she held various roles at Topgolf where she built the national partnerships team and at IMG where she oversaw all business development for IMG Golf.