Carey Archer

Founder & CEO of Asqr, Inc.

Carey Archer has spent more than 20 years building and running businesses around major music festivals and high-stakes destination events. He has owned nearly every core function along the way, from strategy and finance to guest services, ticketing and systems, and he knows the work end to end, from the boardroom to the gate.

He co-founded CID Presents, producing destination events at all-inclusive resorts with artists including Phish, Dave Matthews, Dead & Company and Luke Bryan. He also co-founded Dataflow Enterprises, one of the early festival and event logistics software companies, and built technology and operations for Bonnaroo Music Festival and Goldenvoice. He was directly involved in private equity diligence and the sale of CID Entertainment, and in the integrations that followed with PrimeSport, Endeavor and Live Nation.

In 2025 Carey left his executive role to build Asqr, a guest intelligence platform that replaces helpdesks for the people who produce events. AI answers most guest questions across chat and email, hands the rest to the right person with full context, and spots trending issues while there's still time to act.

Carey lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, with his wife and 14-year-old triplets.