Department of Finance and Commercial Law Outstanding Alumni Award

Kai Blache, B.B.A.’03

Chief Financial Officer and President, TicketSocket

Graduating magna cum laude in finance from Western Michigan University’s Haworth College of Business, Kai Blache played for the WMU Men’s Championship Tennis Team and was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity during his time at Western.

Blache is the chief financial officer, president and a board member of TicketSocket, a white-label ticketing platform. He has worked in different capacities within the company since its inception in 2013. He currently oversees the financing, banking, revenue growth, business development, new client acquisition, corporate mergers and acquisitions, and international expansion for the company. TicketSocket is now used in over 50 countries globally. 

Blache has served in several executive positions for a number of startups since 2013, among them Digitzs, Protecht, CrayPay and Intrepid Payments. Prior to these roles, he worked for JPMorganChase and BNP Paribas for over 10 years.