Through industry thought leadership, strategy design, implementation and team management, the SVP Growth & Communications supports the growth of the Explori business by overseeing corporate commercial and account management, and group marketing for the company. As the experts in event measurement, research and insights, Explori is proud to continue driving positive change throughout the meetings and events industry through collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Explori is the home of event insights.Responsible for the corporate side of the business, I help our partners to demonstrate true event impact and value to their businesses through measuring, comparing and benchmarking customer engagement and experience metrics, whilst arming them with the automated analytics to enable data-driven strategic decisions at an enterprise level.

Event Leaders Exchange, or ELX, is a private professional community that brings together senior event leaders to share ideas and industry insights, brainstorm issues and engage in powerful, actionable conversations that lead to progress. It is invitation only, community-driven and promotes open conversations among peers.

As Master of Ceremonies and Content, I support the delivery of hundreds of events a year; through creation of online collateral, presenting to global delegates, interviewing industry leaders, conversation moderation and communication facilitation, across all GDS products. Events include roundtables, summits, showcases and podcasts, and topics range from digital transformation, data and public cloud, to workplace innovation, mental well-being and diversity and inclusion.

With years of face-to-face and digital experience in onsite rebooking, sales team management, exhibition sales strategy consultancy and execution, event sales coaching, customer success management, partnership management, in-office sales support and translation, I support my clients at any stage of their sales process; from start-ups and small conferences, to global corporations and events with 250k+ visitors.Whether my clients need an experienced hand onsite to complement their existing rebooking process, or want to completely shake-up their current sales strategy to breathe new and innovative life into it, or need new brand partnership development, improving results immediately and for the long-term is a consistent focus.As an Exhibition Sales Specialist, I also help teams and organisations to improve their sales results through bespoke coaching and training, from one-to-one to departmentally. These coaching sessions are designed for the specific needs of my customers, built around their long-term objectives and current circumstances.Acier also works with businesses to represent their brand partnership department, supporting growth and customer acquisition with relevant brand partnerships and adjacencies.

With experience hosting and moderating a variety of digital and virtual events across a wide range of industries, I can bring a bit of energy, support and knowledge to your event, no matter the business goal!

As a LinkedIn coach, I support businesses and sales departments globally with their LinkedIn and social selling efforts, focusing on the tool as a key drive for both new business development and commercial growth with current customers.With LinkedIn coaching clients hitting 500+, every session offers tips and techniques, alongside best practice and practical exercises to deliver an increase in revenue generation and customer acquisition from your LinkedIn platform.Classes can be group masterclasses or dedicated one-to-one sessions; the latter focusing on your individual profile and how to improve your LinkedIn commercial results.

Specialising in French and Brazilian Portuguese from beginner through to A Level, with additional experience in GCSE Spanish

Contracted Head of Sales for GIANT Health; the world's leading healthtech event. Virtual AND global for 2020!Responsible for the management of a team of nine freelance sales professionals with key objectives to increase business development and commercial growth of the portfolio, particularly during a moment of pivot in the events world, from physical to virtual.The role of the Head of Sales is also to develop sales processes and literature, provide sales coaching, create and implement a successful rebooking strategy and reiterate the organisation's value of putting their stakeholders, attendees, exhibitors, speakers and sponsors at the heart of everything they do.

One of the founders of Shinesmith, which was founded in 2017 by a core full-time team of experts in their field.As Head of Business Development, I am responsible for both the commercial growth of the business and customer success of all our current accounts.Alongside lead generation, strategy development, budgeting, account management and coaching our customers' sales teams globally, I have personally created all the consultancy and strategy content and documentation to support the needs of Shinesmith's customers.

Supporting exhibition and trade show organisers with the creation, development and execution of their exhibition sales strategy. A revenue stream created and developed solely by myself, the consultancy became a fundamental element of the Shinesmith solution. Assisting with onsite rebooking, pre and post-show support and process management; in English, French and Portuguese.

Training exhibition sales teams across the world in order for them to maximise the revenue potential of their exhibition sales.

Responsible for all B2C and B2B sales and event management at Crystal Bar, Sheffield; for both private and corporate clients.Clients include Nando’s, Primark, Sky, HSBC, Carillion, Know How, Carphone Warehouse and Sheffield Wednesday Football Club.

The role of Exhibition Rebooking Consultant is at the heart of exhibition sales; creating positive working relationships with our clients' clients to retain their business and increase revenue potential for the event and portfolio.

Freelance Event Manager covering both personal/individual and corporate functions over a huge range of areas. Experience and specialising in trade shows, Christmas parties, weddings, kids' parties, auctions and fundraisers, engagement parties, birthday bashes, sporting events and conferences.Valid DRB and Food Hygiene Level 2 certificates.Communicative, honest, limitless & organised events.

Responsible for all children's entertainment in a French holiday park with around 750 holiday homes. Duties include managing all the daytime kids club activities (for ages 1-14+), executing all administration, organising and presenting evening kids entertainment and managing all kids club staff - most of which is done in French. Additionally, I am responsible for all marketing of the children's entertainment, whether through print or social media.I am also a vocalist and presenter during the main evening shows!

This role incorporates sales (both B2B and B2C), design (logos, print and branding), digital and print marketing, social media management, proof reading, copy writing and corporate event management. Additionally I coordinate part-time staff and run social media training seasons. I am responsible for the management and development of our social media platforms and strategies.

This role ensures that marketing and sales work hand-in-hand to achieve optimal revenue and market success.Duties include:- Marketing internal, external and client campaigns through a variety of mediums including social media, print media, article and digital marketing, events, direct e-mailouts and campaign or event sponsorship.- Creating marketing strategies for a variety of campaigns.- Proof-reading.- Selling all media space that the Students' Union has to offer.- Working towards sales targets of £110,000 per annum.- Using a range of computer software including both Windows and Apple Mac, Microsoft Excel and Word, Adobe InDesign and Photoshop CS6 and Google Analytics.- Creating and publishing a sponsorship strategy for all sports teams and societies.- Finalising sponsorship deals for any of the Students' Union's societies.- Creating and designing promotional artwork.- Creating website content including news articles.- Event organisation.- Working alongside businesses as the representative of the Students' Union. - Training student staff.- Mentoring Student Officers.- Managing the Communications Team and volunteering staff. - Representing the Students' Union within the local community.- Organising the Freshers' Fair; a promotions-driven event with a footfall of 8000 students which showcases over 60 different local and national businesses.- Organising “Refreshers' Week”; A 7-day event consisting of a plethora of social activities.- Organising large-scale charity and community events such as the Southampton Movember World Record Attempt.

The role of Promotions Manager was to hire and manage the promotional team, liaise with B2B clients on a regular basis, execute invoices, sell stock to B2C clients and create new business partnerships and revenue streams.

I was elected as President during my first year at University. Tasks included organising Freshers' Fortnight, event management of both day-time and evening events, including commercially-driven functions, working with external companies and venues to host events, sponsorship management, running welfare campaigns, providing services to minority communities such as international students, designing and promoting campaign designs and managing the budget of £25000. The JCR President and committee were there as a student-facing group to welcome and facilitate thousands of new students. Training included 'Events Organising', 'Budget Training' and 'Manual Handling Training'.