Events, Communications and Marketing

Summary of qualifications

·Six years of corporate events and marketing/communications experience

·International experience in the US, Europe and Asia

·Management and support of events ranging in size between 10 to 350

·Ability to effectively manage and collaborate with individuals across all levels of an

organization

·Understanding of design and web-based design software

Professional experience

2003 – 2009

Apax Partners

New York, NY & London, UK

Title: Events Executive

Previous titles: Marketing Associate, Marketing Assistant

Marketing/Communications

·Developing and preparing presentations, fundraising documents, and marketing/communications

collateral for internal and external audiences

·Writing biographies and case studies for the firm’s employees and portfolio companies

·Developing background documents for video production and monitoring production process

·Overseeing the production of all branded marketing collateral and ensuring that guidelines are

followed

·Tracking news relevant to the firm, its investments, and the industry and preparing summaries of

all relevant news articles and distributing to the firm locally and globally

·Maintaining media contacts and relationships and arranging and monitoring media interviews and

preparing briefing documents

Events

Member of the global events team. Worked in both the New York office and London office. While in London, both managed and supported local and global events. While in New York coordinated and managed all aspects of events for the firm’s US office and assisted on global events. Events range in size from 10 to 350 guests.

Duties include:

·Venue scouting and booking, strategy development, contract negation and review, and accommodation

bookings

·Designing and creating materials for events, including printed and online invitations and

registration forms, agendas and attendee books

·Creating and managing yearly and individual budgets for events

·Managing multiple support staff, venue staff, and vendors

·On-site event management

·Budget and invoice reconciliation

2002 – 2003

Firestone Polymers

Orange, TX

Intranet Administrator

·Maintaining and organizing the plant-wide intranet system which housed training presentations,

policies, procedures and reports and served as a communication and training tool for employees

·Designing and building training web pages and presentations for employee training compliance

·Assisting with and instructing employees on proper use of electronic training presentations and

tests

·Assisting department head to ensure employee safety training compliance enforced by OSHA

Education

City University of New York

New York, NY

Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Cultural Change

The Institute of Culinary Education

New York, NY

Culinary Arts Diploma

Skills

Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage, and InDesign. Knowledge of InterAction and Photoshop. Mac proficient.

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