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 business. • 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. that leads to millions in new revenue opportunities. • 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 Third Party and Vendor Risk Management for Financial Institutions, Project and Portfolio Management for Pharma, Biotech, and Medical Devices, Outage Response and Restoration Management for Utilities, and Medical Device Safety Monitoring Reporting and Surveillance• 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.• Lead, manage and empower a group of conference producers including interviewing, onboarding, training, coaching, disciplinary outcomes, authoring job descriptions and appraisals, and supporting career growth and advancement.

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