Nick Comerford Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, US

Oversight and execution of Infrastructure research, reporting, forums, conference events and company specific growth for the sector.

Dublin, IE

• Direct the planning, coordination, and management of all conference ideation, planning strategy, execution, and post event outcomes.
• Negotiate, source, and procure hotel and conference center venues, audio visual services, polling and online event platforms and other third-party providers to ensure successful project and event initiatives.
• Formulate the marketing and sales strategy and written and oral briefs for events in the Oil & Gas, Utility, Renewable Energy, Banking, Medical Device, and Pharmaceutical Industries for the N American Conferences.
• Create content for and ideate new event topics such as Sterilizing Medical Devices, Oncology Partnerships and Alliances, Renewable Origination, Utility Undergrounding, Microgrids, EPC Contract Risk Management, etc..
• Execute the delivery of high-quality conferences that ensure learning outcomes for senior level executives to improve their bottom line with efficiencies, growth opportunities, and new technologies on topics such as.
• Develop the organizational transition to online, hybrid, and return to in person conferences while managing a team of conference producers in the Chicago office and overseas.

Dublin, IE

• Prospected, pitched, closed, and managed conference sponsors at Intimate B2B Industry specific conferences.
• Generated average monthly personal revenue of $100k and team revenue of $250k.
• Promoted from Sponsorship Sales Rep to Sales Manager in 2006.
• Co-authored sponsorship pricing policy, packages, and procedures for client management and handover to finance, operations, and production.

• Negotiated price, terms of sale, and purchase of used heavy duty, high precision industrial machinery such as CNC lathes, boring mills, presses, and similar
• Demonstrated machines under power and off line at the firm’s warehouse in Racine, WI and at other industrial facilities such as the Caterpillar plant in Peoria, IL.
• Cold called 50 or more plants per day to identify machines for sale, sell current inventory, and gain exclusive dealer rights of plant owners

• Routed domestic and international LTL and FTL ocean and air freight
• Maintained positive relationships with international partners and key domestic accounts
• Built a reporting system for SAP Integration for shipments from suppliers to key account Tranzlink/Tranzrail in New Zealand