Emil Ionescu has been a Romanian event organizer since 2004. He organized over 3.000 events from gigs in clubs to big arenas with headliners like Iron Maiden, Slipknot, Judas Priest, alt-J, Nightwish, Deftones, Disturbed, James Arthur, Garbage, Tom Odell, Slayer, Whitesnake, Goran Bregovic, Il Divo, Pantera or Evanescence. The shows he organized have had an audience of over 2 million fans combined, under the brands BestMusic Live Concerts and METALHEAD. The company organizes almost 200 shows every year from clubs to big arenas of 20.000 cappacity. With an accelerated growth in the last couple of years, BestMusic Live has had over 150.000 spectators in 2022.
Since 2012, Emil Ionescu is also the founder and GM of iaBilet.ro, the market leader of ticketing services in Romania with over 3.000 active B2B clients (promoters, clubs, venues, theaters and so on) and 2 milion tickets sold per year in Romania and around Europe.