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New York, NY, US

NY, NY

Providing agenda research, development, speaker recruitment, and onsite/online management for legal conferences and webinars in Canada and the US. Enabling sponsors and speakers to drive revenue and/or extend their brand,

New York, New York, United States

Create, recruit speakers, produce, and manage virtual, blended and live events for the financial advisory industry and wealth management. Special focus is on fintech, women/diverse advisors, retirement, investments, and practice management.

New York, NY

Produced 9-10 legal forums (live and virtual) per year for in-house counsel and law firm partners on litigation, intellectual property, tax, and women/diversity topics. Also conducted the research for Benchmark Litigation Labor & Employment 2020 and several Women in Law Awards rankings.

New York, NY

Program Manager responsible for providing insights to professionals in highly complex, regulated industries through conferences and special educational events. Programs included Women in Law, SuperConference, Executive Leadership Development, Bank Tax Institute, Insurance Executives, RealShare programs, and InHouse Innovates.

- Alliance of Mergers & Acquisitions Advisors - developed the program content and recruiter speakers for their January '15 conference including managing the Thought Leader of the Year award process and the Piranha Pool panel. Over 500 executives attended.- HB Litigation Conferences - developed content, recruited speakers, created marketing and web copy.

New York, NY

Administrative Director for The Media Program at Columbia Business School responsible for planning, budgeting, marketing, logistics, and program implementation of various events and services for business school students interested in Media. Served as the administrator for the Media Forum, a group of senior media executives who meet to discuss current.

• Thomson Reuters - Handled the meeting logistics (hotel bookings, AV, catering, contracts, room blocks, on-site management support, invoices, and budget/actual reporting for West Law and Federal Publications seminars.
• New York Society for Security Analysts (NYSSA) - Researched and recruited sponsors for industry conferences for Certified Financial Analysts on InfrastructureInvesting and Elder Care Investing
• Cohn Creative Group, an award-winning training and e-learning video production company - Project managed a sales training video
• a Private Grammar School – Managed the hiring of the School Finance Manager. Created job description, posted to websites, screened resumes, setup interviews and performed reference checks
• a Private Girls High School - Managed development and communications/ branding projects.
• a Church – Handled all their office management tasks – paying bills, managing collections, creating bulletins, space rentals, payroll, and supervising staff of 5

Program/project manager for 4-5 annual IT conferences that generate $10 million revenue.· Introduced innovative programming formats (analyst workshops and SecondLife conference sessions) which attracted and engaged 15% more attendees · Created program content for webinars, ATC calls, e-newsletters, and blogs to drive integrated marketing campaigns with.

Re-established a conference department to produce and market conferences, forums, breakfasts, and webcasts on leading-edge business topics to build the brand, attract and retain members, and provide a new revenue stream. · Launched AMA-Apprentice Forums with Donald Trump and NBC to focus on “Business Lessons Learned from The Apprentice” · Created, marketed.

Developed, marketed and managed conferences for companies, organizations, and publications to drive revenue, extend their brand and build their customer/membership base. · AIChE – developed and managed their first Sustainability Conference· AMA – created and managed their annual Corporate Branding Conference for 4 years · IBF Conferences –developed and.

New York, New York, United States

Researched, developed, marketed, and administered conferences in the Banking, Law, Insurance, and Natural Gas fields. Conferences focused on explaining the latest governmental regulations.

Managed the back-office operations (21 people) of a $16 million conference and seminar organization. Operations included registrations, administration, desktop publishing, hotel bookings/logistics/billing, and computer services. Created and managed a new division to develop, market, and administer 6 IT conferences.

Managed a portfolio of high-quality public seminars for the Information Systems and Technology division producing $2.5 million annual revenue.

Solely responsible for the technical and administrative management (recruiting, salary reviews, budgets/forecasts, proposals, and client relationships) of the NY-NJ branch of an international computer consulting firm. Prior to this promotion, worked for 3 years as a computer consultant, coding mainframe systems for a variety of Fortune 100 clients.