Simon Moran | No 9

Live music promoter: managing director, SJM Concerts Take That 's 2009 tour was the ­biggest ever seen in the UK. But Simon Moran – whose offer to promote a tour was the catalyst for the group re-forming – will go one step further with the five-piece's new run of dates, ­starting on 27 May in ­Sunderland, for which a staggering 1.8m tickets have been sold. Not ­content with being arguably the country's ­leading ­concert promoter (SJM ­co-owns V festival and T in the Park , and puts on around 2,000 concerts a year), Moran also runs a management ­company, whose clients include the Script, and is a director of the Academy Music Group of venues. He is also a ­shareholder in a joint-venture label with Gary Barlow, Future Records, which has just signed the London group LBC. Things could hardly be going better: ­Warrington Wolves, the rugby league club he owns, won their second ­successive Challenge Cup last season, and Moran got to lead them out at Wembley.