Chris Frederick Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Ny, New York, Us

New York, Ny, Us

• Managing and currently executing a roster of 150+ events along with Out Leadership Senior Leader Summit's in Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia for FY 2021. • Launched a first-of-its-kind talent and community month long summit called Proudly Resilient resulting in record attendance of over 8,000 LGBTQ professionals at 45+ events with 150+ speakers. • Built and executed the first and only four day summit crafted to develop senior level LGBTQ executives into future corporate board members while creating conversations around LGBTQ representation at the highest levels of business. • Strategize and integrate Out Leadership corporate members throughout the calendar of annual events to maximize value for all member firms. • Developed and launched a first of its kind virtual programming initiative to further engage, educate, and inspire member firms through a wide array of topics related to the business world and LGBTQ+ community. • Managed and implemented various talent development verticals related to younger LGBTQ+ professionals, women, and diverse professionals seeking to sit on corporate boards.

New York, New York, Us

• Raised a record corporate sponsorship figure nine consecutive years in a row with $8,000,000 in corporate donations between FY 2018 - 2019• Oversaw, managed, and secured the bid to host the first WorldPride ever hosted in the United States • Executed and managed 25 events in the last two weeks of June that drew a record five million participants for WorldPride in 2019, making it the largest LGBTQ event in history • Manage an annual budget of $12 million dollars and identify inefficiencies that help to cut expenses• Serve as Executive Producer of the live broadcast of the NYC Pride March on ABC resulting in two New York Emmy nominations in 2018 and 2019 • Created a revenue growth strategy that created a net profit for nine consecutive back to back fiscal years • Grew total organizational income from $900,000 to $12,000,000 between 2009 to 2019• Develop, negotiate, and deploy integrated sponsor specific programs for brands such as Marriott, Coca-Cola, Disney, T-Mobile, American Express, HSBC, Mastercard, Unilever, Walmart, Netflix, Lyft, MAC Cosmetics, Tiffany & Co., Celebrity Cruises, AT&T, TD Bank, Citi, Kiehl’s, P&G, Nordstrom, Delta, Wells Fargo, Target, Budweiser, New York Life Insurance, and etc.• Secured and negotiated contracts for top level talent for major NYC Pride fundraisers including securing artists such as Madonna, Cher, Kylie Minogue, Ariana Grande, Grace Jones, Lady Gaga, Ciara, Cyndi Lauper, Tove Lo, Lizzo, Years & Years, Demi Lovato, Fergie, and others• Key decision lead on marketing / advertising campaign that runs in global, national, and local press outlets garnering 1.5 billion+ media impressions in 2019 • Serve a duel role as Editor-In-Chief / Publisher for the annual NYC PrideGuide while increasing paid ad pages by 410% between 2009 and 2019• Manage a staff of twelve full-time employees to ensure event implementation is on schedule and within / below budget

• Responsible for planning, concept development, management and execution of integrated marketing programs • Conducted and analyzed market/competitor/target client research, and performed evaluation for marketing strategy plans • Successfully managed and coordinated The Advocate’s 40th anniversary gala, including organizing the event, collateral creation, budgetary planning, and securing the venue • Developed and executed a ten city Out with Macy’s in-store shopping tour • Worked with third party vendors to secure all event elements including but not limited to catering, venues, staff, a/v, professional speakers and promotional items• Managed all digital promotional initiatives on various social networking sites (Facebook, Myspace, etc)• Accountable for investment, operations budgets and the management of joint marketing and communications with internal and external alliances• Led all logistics for promotional events held at Sundance and other film festivals nationwide

• Executed the first annual integrated National Sales Meeting • Facilitated in doubling sales of event sponsorships from 2006 to 2007• Managed, gathered, and submitted all materials needed for all in-book promotional pages in The Advocate, Out and The Out Traveler • Developed and drafted advertorial sections that were successfully sold into PlanetOut publications • Led the development and execution of a six month Basil Hayden “Tastemaker” event series that garnered ten million media impressions

• Maintained departmental event marketing schedule merchandising reports, magazine and media kit libraries • Organized all event marketing files, proposals and merchandising requests• Copyedited all collateral materials, established and managed routing system for sign-offs of these materials • Organized and managed all logistics for promotional copies of the magazine needed for upcoming events • Maintained departments’ budget including invoice processing and purchase orders in a timely manner • Promoted from Marketing Intern between a one month period

New York, New York, Us

• Formulated high profile events for clients such as renowned fashion brand Paul Stuart • Worked with publishing companies to bring publicity to Sharp’s clients

B.A., Political Science

High School Diploma