About Us
FutureTix provides consulting on ticketing practices and technologies for arenas, sports teams, universities, cultural institutions, and other attractions. Leveraging our years of ticketing industry experience and our proprietary analytical tools, we deliver strategic insight to our clients and drive smarter, more effective ticketing practices.
Dan DeMato - Principal
Working with one of the finest box office crews in the industry has allowed Dan to enjoy many accomplishments as Senior Director of Ticket Operations for the New York Mets. This fast-paced, high-tech environment processed in excess of 4,000,000 tickets in each recent year and realized record setting ticket and ancillary revenues.
During his 22 years in the industry Dan has worked in all types of ticketing environments including both in-house and out-sourced solutions. He possesses the rare perspective of knowing the business from both the software development and end-user sides. Over this period of time he has established a network of contacts that includes some of the most progressive and savvy ticketing professionals in the business. Dan puts both this wealth of contacts and his own experience at your disposal through FutureTix.
Dan has been in the forefront of the ticketing industry with variable pricing and other revenue generating services. Dan is well versed in all aspects of ticketing and has served as a speaker at industry conferences, including Intix, Pacnet and the MLB Business Meetings.
He is versed in all state-of-the-art internet applications such as online sales, subscriptions, renewals, transfers, secondary market, print-at-home, lotteries and auctions with specific focus on developing and capitalizing on potential revenue streams while enhancing the customer experience.
His box office oversight included staffing, inventory control, subscriptions and packages, internet sales and transactions, database integrity, CRM, group sales, complete in-house call center, bar-coded gate access control, mail orders, remote outlets, gate sale, fulfillment and distribution, ticket sales reconciliation and reporting. For over 12 years Dan maintained all aspects of in-house ticketing system as a profit center, including product functionality research and development.
Dan's office has ticketed World Series and National League Championship baseball; Rolling Stones, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel concerts; as well as International Soccer and other events. He has conducted numerous multi-channeled high-volume single day 'on sales', many in excess of 150,000 tickets.
As a longtime member of INTIX, Dan has served on the Standards and Ethics committee.
Contact Dan DeMato: demato 'at' futuretix.com.
Peter Berman - Business Consulting Coordinator
Peter has enjoyed a variety of work experiences and schooling that have reinforced his passion for sports and venue marketing. Peter's sports and entertainment career began while working under the Director of Marketing & PR at the Louisiana Superdome. He helped successfully market and host premiere events like the NCAA Final Four, SEC Men's Basketball Tournament, NFL & NBA games and more.
Peter successfully sold radio advertising and sponsorship at Sportsradio610 WIP, the radio home of the Philadelphia Flyers, 76ers and Eagles. This experience was integral in his acceptance to the prestigious MBA/Masters in Sports Administration program at Ohio University. While in school Peter honed his marketing and business consulting skills working with Lenny Dykstra, the Cincinnati Reds, Vitamin Water and other regional companies.
Peter most recently worked with professional sports teams and various ticketed venues providing strategic advice for the roll out of their stored-value ticketing initiatives. Peter has great understanding and appreciation for the inter-relationships between ticketing systems and CRM platforms, social networking, price scaling, and overall marketing strategies and the inherent value returned when these components are blended together properly.
Contact Peter Berman: peter 'at' futuretix.com.
Dan Bartlett - Development Resource
Dan conceived of the SplitSeasonTickets suite of services as a part owner of San Francisco Giants season tickets. Dan built the services from the ground-up from a fans perspective. Using best of breed technology Dan has used his cross-functional skills to create fan-friendly sophisticated services that provide true results to professional sports teams.
Prior to SplitSeasonTickets, LLC, Dan was on the founding team of Intraware, Inc, a software services company. Dan helped Intraware grow from five people with a business plan to a large public company. Dan was an integral part of the development of the company's architecture and systems and played a pivotal role developing all customer-facing applications. In addition, Dan has held high-pressure sales and marketing positions. Dan has computer science and political science degrees from U.C. Berkeley.
Contact Dan Bartlett: dan 'at' splitseasontickets.com.