EnMotive, a subsidiary of Gannett, provides a suite of services to events across the country that includes proprietary registration platform, cutting edge photography and video technology, race timing, and event production. I work with partners from coast to coast in streamlining their event, leading to increased revenues, lower costs, and enhanced experiences for their participants and sponsors.

RAM Racing is a premier event production company in the endurance sports industry. It was founded over a decade ago as a result of the owner’s passion for endurance sports. Since its beginning, RAM exploded onto the racing scene and now our Chicago Race Series produces 11 Chicago-area running events that include some of the most iconic races in the city including the Soldier Field 10 Mile, Big Ten Network Big 10K, and the Magnificent Mile Half & 5K. Additionally, RAM produces the Hot Chocolate 15K/5K Series in 16 major metro markets across the country including Chicago (45K runners), Atlanta (25K runners), San Francisco (20K runners) and many others. Visit us at www.hotchocolate15k.com. RAM Racing’s commitment to corporate partners is to connect brands with our 300,000 annual event participants in a meaningful, impactful, and organic way that delivers results and drives their business. With a variety of marketing platforms and the best event production staff in the country, feel free to connect with me to explore how a RAM Racing partnership can engage your brand in key markets with a demographic passionate about a healthy lifestyle.

Responsible for client retention and driving new business by developing customized marketing solutions for local, regional, and national brands utilizing the marketing assets of the Chicago Wolves. These assets include in-arena signage, consumer promotions in the marketplace, TV, print, digital advertising, and community-based initiatives, special events and hospitality. Projects & Accomplishments:• Have generated over $407,000 in new corporate partnership revenue in less than two seasons with Chicago Wolves.• Actively prospect and close new business partnerships with local, regional, and national businesses.• Pitched, negotiated, and closed two-year exclusivity agreement with Domino’s pizza, the first exclusive agreement in the pizza category in Wolves history.• Signed Sears Holdings as the exclusive title partner for the Wolves military appreciation event.• Develop new and tailored partnership proposals that meet the needs and goals of each client.• Communicate regularly with current and prospective partners through phone calls, referrals, personal appointments, and hospitality events at Wolves games and events. • Responsible for client retention by means of developing in-depth understanding of partner’s strengths, weaknesses, and goals of the partnership. • Activate and manage all partnership elements for 11 accounts.• Write and present partnership proposals to current and prospective partners.

Responsible for obtaining clients’ desired return on their sponsorship investment by means of effective management and activation of contract deliverables including media and marketing assets, creative, consumer-driving promotions, hospitality, and special event marketing and execution. Charged with yearlong process of documenting the execution of the clients’ partnership and generating a year-end report instrumental to the partners’ decision-makers during renewal negotiations.Projects & Accomplishments: • Responsible for the management and activation of $700,000 in partnership contracts annually.•Project managed special event logistics for corporate partners that included event staffing, ticketing, catering, security, hospitality, collateral pieces, and entertainment. •Led collaboration with creative services staff to assure partner/client’s brand messaging and promotional objectives where achieved; coordinated storyboards for stadium LCD, video animations, print, program and radio ads; retail and stadium signage and collateral marketing pieces.•Collaborated with Sponsorship Services Vice President and Sponsorship Sales Vice President, expanded product and services mix of sponsorship inventory resulting in new revenue streams.•Introduced procedures to eliminate double bookings and accurately track available inventory of luxury suites. Coordinated and distributed season ticket and suite ticket inventory for corporate partners. •Tracked, managed, hired and trained host staff and coordinated maintenance for inventory for 29 luxury suites across a 70 game season. •Increased attendance over three year period for annual kickoff Suite Tasting Event for 300+ invitation only guests, consisting of team sponsors and suite holders. •As Member of the Dragons 2013 Midwest League All Star Game planning committee handled distribution of all VIP tickets, catering, hospitality logistics for team executives, suite furnishings and pre-game HR derby.

Responsible for business development, managing, and tracking metrics of group/corporate ticket sales, relationships, promotions and accounts. Projects & Accomplishments: •Generated over $200,000 premium ticket sales revenue annually while servicing over 250 accounts annually.•Focused on account service, managed more than 700 season ticket accounts that combined for $850,000. •Coordinated the design, purchase, and delivery of 85,000 baseball caps while working within a budget constraint of $90,000.•Researched, purchased, and delivered 28,000 premium giveaway items on time and within restricted budget. •Improved inventory data collection techniques for sales department’s group/corporate database that is comprised of the clients’ event date, contact information, account receivables and ticket reservations. •Instrumental contributor of ticket sales team generating three years of YOY sales increases.✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰CORE COMPETENCIES: Ticket Sales, Sports Marketing, Sponsorship, Sports, Sports Management, Baseball Event Management, Event Planning, Marketing, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Sales, Marketing Strategy, Sponsorship Sales, Sponsorship Activation, Advertising, Marketing Communications, Brand Development, Account Management, Direct Marketing, Brand Management, Leadership Management, Time Management, Account Development, Account Retention, Brand Management, Business Development, Campaign Management, Competitive Analysis, Margin Improvement, Market Launch, Market Positioning, Market Research, Market Share Ratings, Market Surveys, Mass Merchants, Multi-Channel Distribution, Multi-Channel Sales, Multimedia Advertising, Multimedia Marketing, Communications, Revenue Growth, Revenue Stream, Sales Closing, Sales Cycle Management, Sales Forecasting, Sales Training, Sales Presentations, Solutions Selling, Strategic Market Planning, Tactical Market Plans, Project Management