Opus Origin 任命 Greg Topalian 出任北美主席，加快区域投资扩张

9/8/2026

Veteran builder, operator and investor takes on expanded role as Opus Origin sets its sights on its next phase of investment and expansion

NEW YORK, NY – Opus Origin today announced the appointment of Greg Topalian as Chairman of North America, bringing one of the events and media industry's most accomplished builders, investors and operators into a senior leadership role as the company accelerates its investment and growth strategy across the region.

The appointment signals Opus Origin's growing ambition in North America and comes as the investment group continues to build and scale a new generation of B2B events, media, data and information businesses.

Topalian has spent three decades building, scaling and investing in businesses across the events and media industry. During 17 years at Reed Exhibitions, he rose to Senior Vice President, launched New York Comic Con and acquired Penny Arcade Expo, helping build one of the world’s leading portfolios of fan and pop culture events. He later co-founded LeftField Media, building a portfolio of experiential events before selling the business to Clarion Events in 2016.

As CEO and later Chairman of Clarion Events North America, Topalian led the business through a period of significant expansion, growing annual revenue fivefold through organic growth, new launches and M&A. More recently, he has returned to his entrepreneurial roots, investing in and working alongside founders through On Deck Ventures and EVG, where he has helped develop and scale a dozen emerging brands.

Topalian’s appointment builds on a four-year relationship with Opus Origin and longstanding relationships with Simon Kimble and Sam Jennings. Over that time, he has worked alongside the Opus Origin team across several of its investments and businesses, including Yotta—formerly part of the Opus-backed InfraXmedia platform—as well as RETCON and CloudFest Americas. As Chairman of North America, he is now bringing that builder's perspective to an expanded role—and helping shape what comes next.

"I have always believed the future belongs to builders," said Topalian. "The people willing to see a market differently, take a risk and create something that didn't exist before are the people who move this industry forward. That's what attracted me to Opus Origin, and has kept me close to the team over the last four years. The opportunity at Opus is bigger than building great events. It’s about building great hybrid businesses. We have the capital, operating expertise and entrepreneurial mindset to back exceptional businesses and build them into category leaders."

As Chairman of North America, Topalian will work alongside the Opus Origin leadership team to identify new investment opportunities, support management teams across the portfolio and accelerate the company's presence in the North American market.

His appointment comes at a significant moment for Opus Origin. The company recently completed the successful sale of a majority stake in InfraXmedia to Bowmark Capital following a period in which the platform grew revenues by more than 40 percent annually. Built around the rapidly expanding digital infrastructure market, InfraXmedia combined DataCenterDynamics, Yotta, Data Center Nation and SDxCentral across events, media, intelligence and learning.

The transaction offered a powerful proof point for the Opus Origin model: identify high-growth markets and businesses poised to scale, invest behind them, and build across formats to create something significantly more valuable than the sum of its parts.

"Greg is a builder in every sense of the word," said Sam Jennings, CEO, Opus Origin. "He has launched businesses from scratch, scaled organizations through extraordinary periods of growth, led major acquisitions and integrations, and backed entrepreneurs building the future. Very few people in our industry have that combination of operating experience and entrepreneurial instinct. His expanded role reflects the scale of our ambition in North America."

Opus Origin takes a different approach to traditional events and media investment—its model combines active capital with hands-on operating expertise to build integrated businesses across events, media, first-party data and intelligence. For Topalian, that model, and its potential in North America, is central to the opportunity ahead.

"The industry is at an inflection point, and that creates an enormous opportunity," Topalian added. "The next great B2B businesses aren't going to look exactly like the ones we built 10 or 20 years ago. Events, media, data, technology and intelligence are converging. Opus Origin understands that, has the capital to act on it and, importantly, has a team that knows how to build. We've already shown what this model can do. We're just getting started."

His appointment signals Opus Origin’s growing ambitions in North America—and the beginning of what comes next.

About Greg Topalian
Greg Topalian is an entrepreneur, investor and executive with nearly 30 years of experience building and scaling events, media and information businesses. He spent 17 years at Reed Exhibitions, where he created ReedPop and launched New York Comic Con, before co-founding LeftField Media in 2014. Following LeftField's acquisition by Clarion Events, Topalian served as CEO and later Chairman of Clarion Events North America, leading a period of rapid organic and acquisition-driven growth. He is also the founder of On Deck Ventures, through which he invests in and advises emerging businesses across events, media and technology.

About Opus Origin
Opus Origin builds category-defining platforms that move industries forward.

Opus Origin invests in, builds, and grows category-defining businesses across events, media, and data. Built by entrepreneurial operators and backed by experienced investors, Opus Origin combines active capital with hands-on operating expertise, proprietary intelligence, and strategic guidance to help ambitious founders and management teams turn strong businesses into market-leading platforms.

Opus Origin looks for opportunity where industries are moving fastest, identifying the unstoppable trends reshaping markets, behaviors and economies in real time. Opus Origin backs businesses with deeply engaged communities, proprietary insight and the potential to become essential to the markets they serve. Rather than simply acquiring businesses, Opus Origin works alongside its teams to build across live experiences, original media, first-party data and new products, transforming connections into communities, communities into intelligence and intelligence into category-defining platforms that create lasting market value.

For more information visit www.opusorigin.com.

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