Live Entertainment + Hospitality, Built By Operators
Crafting Worlds.
Curating Experiences.
The ROHO Group originates, builds, and operates restaurants, live events, festivals, tours, and destination experiences — led by an executive who helped invent the modern outdoor festival, three decades ago.
What We Do
Five ways in, one accountable partner.
Engage a single service or move through the full lifecycle as one continuous relationship — the same discipline whether the venture is a neighborhood restaurant or a multi-day festival.
Concept Origination & Ideation
Turn a location, a budget, or a blank page into a real, positioned concept before a dollar is spent on buildout.
Business & Operational Development
Financial modeling, staffing plans, licensing roadmaps, and design & construction management on your behalf.
Opening & Launch Management
Hands-on project management through the highest-risk window in any venture's life: the run-up to opening day.
Live Events, Tours & Corporate Productions
Concerts, festivals, domestic and international tours, corporate events, and trade shows — concept to teardown.
Charity & Special Events
Galas and fundraisers built to protect net-to-cause proceeds without sacrificing guest or donor experience.
Not sure which pillar fits? Tell us what you're building and we'll scope it together.
How An Engagement Runs
Five phases. One thread of accountability.
Every engagement follows the same framework, scaled to the client's stage — because the order genuinely matters.
The Network
Direct access to the people who actually built the biggest names in the room.
ROHO proudly employs and/or can provide access to many of the world's top festival, concert, and tour operators — the individuals responsible for promoting, producing, and directing some of the largest live entertainment brands and endeavors on earth.
Ryan G. Olesen
More than three decades of executive leadership across global live entertainment, music festivals, arena and stadium concerts, international touring, hospitality, and nightlife. Recognized as one of the early architects of the North American electronic dance music movement, having helped pioneer the large-scale outdoor festival production model in the early 1990s that became a global industry standard.
Co-founder and CEO of United Festival Organization (UFO); founder of Dusk2Dawn Inc. and theMusicAgency.com — the world's first premier tier-1 online booking agency, later sold into a top-three global artist management conglomerate. Partner, Group SEVP & Executive Producer of Live Events & Endeavors at WP1. Co-founder of the Storm Aid Foundation.
Where We Operate
Regional offices, global reach.
Headquartered in Florida, with a presence built to match a client base that has always been mostly outside the home market.
For IP Holders & Institutional Partners
You own the legacy. We build and operate the physical world around it.
Major IP-holding conglomerates own world-class cultural brands but rarely know how to build, engineer, and operate physical experiences or live tours. The ROHO Group is the turnkey execution engine that closes that gap — and syndicates the capital stack so neither side ties up its own balance sheet.
Discuss a Licensing PartnershipIn-House Pipeline
What we're building with our own capital and network.
Majority-owned by ROHO, with minority equity raised from private investors on a per-project basis.
Capone's Speakeasy & Desert Bar
A speakeasy and desert-bar concept planned for an existing 20,000-square-foot, three-story historic building.
REVIVE Music Festival
A large-format outdoor festival planned across 250+ acres of grounds, built on three decades of festival production experience.
Space Coast Entertainment Complex & Resort
A large-scale space-themed entertainment complex and resort concept, currently in confidential concept development ahead of presentation to a prospective aerospace entertainment brand partner.
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Let's build something worth remembering.
Whether it's a restaurant, a festival, a tour, a gala, or a licensing conversation for a portfolio brand — tell us what you're building.