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Global

Advisory to Office of the President and C-SuiteCross-Functional Member of Executive Leadership Team as Corporate StrategistSpecial Advisor to CMO, CGO, CP&COCreative Lead- Agency-wide Innovation and Thought Leadership Content Thinking both "On" and "In" Spiro's current and future growth & market position/Differentiation/POV/Enterprise Cultural strategyCultural storytelling- creation and socializationCross-functional channel opener

Los Angeles, Ca

Fruition.co is a woman led Growth Strategy, Brand Coaching, and Innovation Consultancy based in Los Angeles. We help businesses and brands to stand out in their field, engage their audience, and tell their story.Fruition.co acts as both strategist and coach, aligning and energizing people around thoughtful solutions to tricky growth & innovation challenges. Fruition.co uses design thinking, multi-media technology and strategic intelligence tools to achieve competitive differentiation and revenue growth. Our ServicesBRAND COACHING: Articulating business capability + extracting unique value proposition + identifying market opportunity + story-izing = cool new stuff happens. MARKET STRATEGY DESIGN: Where to play and how to win. BRAND BUILDING: Finding ways for more people to know and love a brand and what it stands for. INSIGHTS: Identifying where the audience is, who the audience is, what they care about and how we talk to them. AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT: Answering why an audience would care and share, and, what do we want them to think, say and do.Our Super Powers: Story Sleuthing. Idea Fruitioning. Leading with Influence. Deep Curiosity. Empathy and Insight. Change Black Belt. Mission: To fruition ideas that inspire, impact, delight, enrich, empower and contribute to exponential change.www.hellofruition.co

Greater Los Angeles Area

A Hundred Years is a design studio committed to creating long-term impact. We are a team of designers, strategists, story tellers, technologists and change makers who share the belief that our future is full of possibility.

Austin, Texas

inKind fuels restaurant revenue growth through its new platform, House Accounts, a guest experience management and customer insights technology. House Accounts allows customers to prepay for meals in exchange for bonus credits, preferred access and a uniquely customized dining experience. inKind also finances selected restaurants through its House Accounts platform, providing zero-interest growth capital.inKind envisions a world where guests walk into their favorite restaurant and are delivered a customized dining experience that is tailored to their individual preferences. The staff instantly recognize them and know their likes/dislikes, previous dining behaviors, openness to suggestions and service preferences. At the end of an amazing meal, without taking out a credit card, the experience is automatically deducted from the House Account and the guest’s preference profiles are updated for an even more tailored next visit. Principal Responsibilities:• Increase global brand equity by defining and disseminating inKind’s unique businessvalue, while amplifying its in-person and digital market presence.• Oversee the creation and integration of evolving marketing/branding assets &activities to increase inKind’s market position.• Marketing strategy – lead and oversee marketing efforts across content, event anddigital/social channels to enhance inKind’s profile and serve business developmentstrategy and goals, per mutually agreed upon growth targets.• Represent the company through client visits, presentations, and industry events forthe purpose of Key Account Acquisition + Negotiations, including:• Build and supervise a high-performing inKind marketing, sales and businessdevelopment team

Los Angeles

Contend Immersive is the visual multimedia division of Contend, a leading content creation, video production and marketing agency in Los Angeles. We are a collective of innovators, instigators, storytellers and collaborators determined to disrupt the traditional marketing, media and entertainment industries. We are now part of the Mosaic Agency, a global leader in consumer-centric experiential marketing. Recruited to join the Contend and Mosaic agencies as VP of Contend Immersive, I am here to unleash rogue creative and radical technology through Inverted Reality. We remove the lines between human, digital, physical and analog to create mind-bending multi-sensory immersion.Responsibilities IncludeDevelop and implement Contend Immersive’s strategy as part of global strategy of Contend. Launch year 1 operations, ensuring conversion to profitability.Establish and maintain revenue strategy, product roadmap, market and competitive positioning.Impact the profitability of the company through ensuring strategic and tactical management decisions and new business development resultsManage the strategy and all revenue generation and execution activities; sales, marketing, business development, revenue ops, project management.Develop and maintain effective key stakeholder/partner/joint alliance relationships.Sales force management: sourcing, scaling and managing network of agents and sales representatives.Reporting directly to CEO

Greater Los Angeles Area

Sila Sveta Inc. is the US subsidiary of Russia’s market leading interactive multimedia and conceptual design agency.Recruited to lead Sila Sveta’s international expansion. Develop and grow profitable new business, expand company’s presence in new markets and establish long term strategic alliances to maximize profitability and shareholder returns.Responsibilities include:Generating scalable and repeatable revenue.Establishing and maintaining revenue strategy, product roadmap, market and competitive positioning.Managing the strategy, teams and all revenue generation and execution activities; sales, marketing, business development, revenue ops, project management.Sales force management: sourcing, scaling and managing in-house and outsourced network of sales agents and representatives.Launching year 1 green field operations, ensuring conversion to profitability within 18 months.Supervising local and international direct reports in the area of Project Management, Marketing (branding and creative), Communications and Operations.Reporting directly to the Board of Directors.

San Francisco Bay Area

RPM is the the music industry’s leading philanthropic strategy consulting firm.Recruited from Board of Directors to develop Strategic Partnerships and monetization initiative Implemented business partnerships with artists, non-profit organizations and corporations to ensure revenue optimization. Developed revenue generating programs, including concert tour-based philanthropy activities, fee-for-service consulting, and events with tier one internationally recognized recording artists.Responsible for internal and external communications strategy.Managed and supervised operations staff, and consultants.I transitioned from the position to pursue a Global Executive MBA at Georgetown.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Founder/CEO of AmyBMGMT, a Los Angeles based independent Artist Management Company. Market leader in strategic advisement, global expansion and career management of international touring and recording artists and producers.• Partner at Cookman/Nacional 2008-2013. Generated gross revenues of $10 million• Management partner at Tsunami Entertainment, 2004-2008. Generated gross revenues of $5 million.• Propelled multiple artists to Grammy award-winning status• Directed brand strategies and global business affairs • Managed million-dollar plus annual operating budgets • Annual client revenue exceeding $2 million gross per annum• Negotiated multiple six-figure publishing, recording, sponsorship and merchandising deals• Negotiated six-figure diversifying opportunities in non-traditional revenue generating arenas: composing/scoring/public-private partnerships/sponsorships.I was a US State Department Cultural Ambassador under the Bush and Obama administrations, sent to 18 countries to coordinate cultural exchange public diplomacy missions.Specialties: communications, sponsorships, licensing, promotions, branding, channel marketing/distribution strategy, loyalty programs, high-level stakeholder relationships. Clients/partners/collaborations: US Department State, Smithsonian, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, NCLR, National Symphony, Boston/NY Pops Orchestras, Apple, Google, Yahoo, TopSpin, Hewlett Packard, USC Annenberg School, Columbia/Georgetown Universities, USC, TED, Summit Series, Sony Pictures, EA Games, PBS, Warner Interactive, Pixar, Disney, Clear Channel, AEG, Live Nation, Goldenvoice, NBC, Comedy Central, Summit/Lionsgate, Grammy Foundation, Future of Music Coalition, Musicares, NFL, A&E, PRI, HBO, NPR, Ben&Jerry’s, Skullcandy, SXSW, Sundance, Heineken, AVP, Adidas, Human Rights Watch, Target, IBM, Zumba, Digidesign, Conrad Foundation, Revolutions Per Minute

Global Executive Mba, International Business

The Georgetown-ESADE Global Executive MBA program mirrors the complexity of the global business environment by integrating and packaging.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Anthropology And Education

Activities and Societies: Kappa Delta Pi High Academic HonorsMy masters is in cultural anthropology and education with a specialization.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum LaudePsychology major Cultural Anthropology minor Phi Beta Kappa Dean's List Magna Cum.