Executive Liaison to the Chairman of the Board

Sourcing, vetting, and securing participants for in-person design research interviews and conversations.

Sourcing, vetting, and securing participants for in-person design research interviews and conversations.

Initiated and designed host company recruitment process, created relationship management tracking tools, crafted marketing communications, recruited 100+ companies for this international festival start up.

Food conference taste pavilion curation including recruitment of 70+ luxury and artisan vendors. Event production and speaker support for several Federated Media conferences.

Multi-stage Live Event Design & Project ManagementCo-led design and execution of a workshop series for Christus Health's Board of Directors and C-level executives. Workshops included highly complex, interactive, experiential trips in the field (Learning Journeys). Recruited more than 100 speakers/presenters in 5 cities across the U.S.

Head of WorldView, Global Business Network (GBN) membership business. GBN was a consulting firm and futures think tank with a unique membership business exploring emergent trends through interactive, collaborative experiences and events with Fortune 500 businesses, governments, and nonprofit organizations. Responsible for all member, community relationship management, including community development of elite international network of 200+ thought leaders and nearly 10k business executives and professionals. GM of a $3+MM business unit, financial and budget planning, resource allocation and planning, vendor acquisition and oversight, team building and professional development.• 6 years on the organization’s executive team• Led 100s of ongoing multidisciplinary internal and client/member facing projects including: GBN's rebranding; marketing & communications strategy; new product development and product management; content strategy and platform design & delivery (websites, conferences, workshops, events, print publications)• Led acquisition change management / OD Projects (GBN was acquired by Monitor Group): technology / IT integration; procurement, design and build out of 23,000 sq. ft. San Francisco office; and relocation.

Founding team member. Led all PR and communications on the founding team of the weekly print and online business newsmagazine focused on the business of the Internet Economy, published by Internet Industry Publishing, an International Data Group business. Conceptualized and directed all marketing and promotional activities supporting the successful print magazine launch (April 1998).

Led corporate communications for Wired Ventures, the parent company of Wired Books, HotWired, and Wired magazine through Wired magazine’s acquisition by Condé Nast Publications. Hired as the Assistant to the CTO and promoted to manage corporate communications.