Kevin Lyman

CEO & Founder, Kevin Lyman Group

Award-winning entertainment and music industry icon Kevin Lyman has reimagined the live show and festival experience, shaped popular culture and rocked corporate branding. Lyman founded the Vans Warped Tour in 1995 and has curated and ran the groundbreaking festival throughout its 24-year run. In addition, he has produced or promoted such live-music experiences as Taste of Chaos, It’s Not Dead Festival, the Alternative Press Music Awards, Pilgrimage, Mayhem Festival and Country Throwdown, among others. His punk rock intrepidness, his steely commitment to philanthropic pursuits, his savvy business instincts and his on-the-pulse aesthetic sensibility have guided him on a successful and winding career that has spanned 37 years. Today, he embraces a new era of unbound creative and business opportunities with The Kevin Lyman Group, a premier event production and strategy firm.