Matt Bialkowski
Chief Operating Officer
Matt Bialkowski is SoldOut’s Chief Operating Officer, bringing deep experience across major events, sport governance, government relations, and commercial partnerships in Australia. His career spans leadership roles with SoldOut Event Management, Rowing Queensland, Brisbane Economic Development Agency, and the AFL, where he has led high-performing teams, managed complex stakeholder environments, and delivered major event and sport programs with strong commercial and governance discipline. He has built a reputation as a trusted advisor to boards, senior executives, and community stakeholders, with particular strength in aligning strategy, operations, and public-sector engagement. His background includes high-profile event environments such as the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games and the G20, alongside sport leadership roles that required financial stewardship, compliance, and long-term planning.
Professional Bio (Survey)
As Chief Operating Officer at SoldOut, I oversee the strategic and operational frameworks that allow our teams to deliver complex, high-profile events at scale. My background spans major events, sport governance, government relations, and commercial partnerships — with leadership roles across the AFL, Rowing Queensland, the Brisbane Economic Development Agency, and SoldOut itself. I’m focused on aligning strategy with execution, and building the structures that allow great work to happen consistently.
The Masters. Augusta is the gold standard of event presentation — the attention to detail, the tradition, the way every element of the experience is considered and controlled. As someone who thinks deeply about how events are run, I’d love to be on the inside of that operation.
My 6-year-old daughter’s family drawing. It’s hanging in my office and nothing in any gallery competes with it.
Blink-182. No further justification required.
The Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. The scale, the complexity, the coordination across government, sport, and community — and then watching it all come together and genuinely move people. That’s the benchmark everything else gets measured against.
