Tony Khan is CEO, GM and Head of Creative of AEW, the professional wrestling league taking the world by storm. Under Khan’s leadership, AEW defies expectations with its meteoric rise, record ratings, world-class roster, pop culture infiltration and a highly entertaining product drawing the youngest-skewing wrestling audience on television.

In October, five years after Khan launched professional wrestling promotion AEW as a direct competitor to Vince McMahon’s WWE, he closed a multi-year media rights deal with Warner Bros. Discovery, worth a reported US$185m a year, which calls for AEW’s shows and events to be broadcast on TBS and TNT and stream on Max. The company is now valued at more than US$2bn, making it the third most valuable combat sports company globally.

Khan is also Chief Football Strategy Officer of the Jacksonville Jaguars, GM of Fulham F.C., partner in Activist Artists Management and board member of Black News Channel.