Bruce Wimbish Email & Phone Number

Columbus, OH, US

Columbus, Ohio, US

ASM Global, the leader in privately managed public assembly facilities, manages the Greater Columbus Convention Center. This role is responsible for maximizing rental revenues and occupancy of the GCCC, via the sales and contracting of events in the sports, multicultural and religious markets.It will work with the Greater Columbus Sports Commission and.

The Sports Business Executive Accelerator, powered by the National Society of Black Sports Professionals (BSP) and RISE, is a leading professional development platform for rising and emerging sports, entertainment, agency professionals, college athletics practitioners, and media executives. The program fosters personal and business-oriented professional.

The CBPA is a community-building resource established with the purpose of connecting, educating and empowering parents, as they guide their student-athletes through the ever-evolving complexities of NCAA basketball. The CBPA is a national, independent association that will prepare and educate parents throughout their athlete’s college experience, including.

The National Society of Black Sports Professionals, Inc. (BSP) connects, empowers and works to advance it members within the business operations of sports to positions of leadership and influence within the industry.

ADVANCE, powered by Anomaly Sports Group and TeamAltemus, is a premier resource for athlete development and engagement by college and professional sports organizations. We are rooted in a passion to help provide critical life skills, professional readiness, NIL and elite programming to athletes at all levels beyond their sport. Our team’s diversity.

Columbus, Ohio, US

Porter Wright’s Sports Law Practice, headquartered in Columbus with eight offices around the country, helps professional athletes navigate the complex business and personal matters they face every day. With active and retired clients across the country, Porter Wright has significant experience advising sports clients in contract and agreement review.

• Joined the commission as Senior Marketing & Communications Manager in 2010, promoted to Director in 2012 and in 2017, as part of integration of marketing department with Experience Columbus’ marketing and.
• Direct the organization’s overall strategic communications efforts in generating positive exposure, especially in the area of earned media, for Columbus nationally as a premier destination for sporting events.
• Support business development, event marketing, special projects and corporate partner functions with overall communications efforts.
• Support the Executive Director on all public-sector engagement initiatives including City of Columbus and the Mayor’s office, City Council, City, Franklin County and State of Ohio, along with civic leaders and.

Cleveland, Ohio, US

• Supported the basketball communications team’s efforts to coordinate the team’s relationship with the media while helping to develop and distribute team information to key internal and external stakeholders and fans.
• Covered practice and assisting with day-to-day media availability
• Issued all media credentials and scouting requests; preparing game seating charts
• Assisted in writing press releases and player bios.
• Was lead author of team’s game notes distributed daily media along with statistics.
• Authored press releases, player bios and team pages for season media guides.

Cleveland, Ohio, US

• Maintaining a high profile for organizational business activities and achievements in marketing, corporate sales, ticket sales and community relations within local and national trade publications and media outlets.
• Facilitating media exposure that supports corporate partnerships and marketing promotions; tracking media exposure to measure added value.
• Building relationships with members of the media in the areas of sports, business, entertainment, metro and community relations.
• Working closely with city government on collaborative team initiatives.

Cleveland, Ohio, US

• Proactively collaborated with all other internal departments to generate, develop and execute business-oriented public relations opportunities
• Analyze internal and external data and statistics to create messages that provide informational background on growth and achievements.
• Coordinated event publicity, set up interviews, escort spokespersons to TV/radio appearances.
• The creation of the Cavaliers Black Heritage Celebration, a fan development program for the team’s African-American fan base.

Cleveland, Ohio, US

• Coordinated the Cavaliers Caravan summer schedule including event planning, structure, setup, layout and staffing coordination.
• Being a member of audience segmentation (African-American, Latino), marketing matrix, external idea network and team hospitality task forces.
• Created unified photo database through coordination with all departments about compiling respective team photos.
• Managed team fan mail including replying and cataloguing in database.

Columbus, OH, US

• Developed and revising the corporate partnership proposals for prospective partners while managing layout templates and element structures through league research and benchmarking.
• Updated corporate partnership recaps, contracts, photos radio/television affidavits and ratings for the 2003-05 seasons.
• Worked on launch of AFL Columbus Destroyers and team's corporate sponsorship department.

Columbus, Ohio, US

I was responsible for the recruitment of ethnically diverse candidates to the Fisher College of Business full-time MBA program. In my two years, we saw a concerted increase in the number and percentage of diverse candidates who were admitted and enrolled in the program, which consisted of only 150 candidates per class.

Master'S, Sports Management

Mba, Marketing

Bachelors, Business Adminstration - Marketing

Bachelor'S, Business Administration

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