A trading desk for the secondary ticket market.

Mac is a serial entrepreneur. After graduating from UC Davis in 2011, he found a rock & roll band on MySpace that was looking for a manager. He took them from a basement practice space in San Francisco’s Tenderloin to recording with Gordon Raphael—producer of The Strokes’ Is This It and Room on Fire—and touring with national acts. Ultimately the band was a swing and a miss.

During that run, Mac also produced live events at most of the notable small-capacity rooms in San Francisco, building relationships with venues, talent buyers, and touring agents. Along the way he started learning the supply and demand curves of live-event ticketing.

In 2015 he pivoted to the secondary markets, where he saw volatility, liquidity, and scale. Over the next decade he built Sky Strike from selling a few Coachella tickets into a $10M+ annual revenue business. Under his direction—and amid continual change in the space—the firm has kept transforming.

Grace joined Sky Strike in 2022 during her final year at UCLA, starting as an admin assistant. She worked her way up to portfolio manager, where she now analyzes live-event markets and pricing direction and makes the desk’s daily buy and sell decisions.

Mina also joined the team in 2022 as an admin assistant. She handles the moving parts behind every purchase and sale. Unlike equities, responsibility for a position does not end when you liquidate—Mina works with our partners and vendors to keep Sky Strike operationally compliant from start to finish.