Desh Amila Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney

Think Inc. lives here

Sydney, Australia

Coordinating All Digital Careers events and activities (including Young ICT Explorers) in NSW. Promoting the diversity of IT careers and study options

Sydney, Australia

Online hip hop lifestyle magazine• All staff management• Business development • Search Engine Optimisation and social media strategy development • Video editing, scripting and conceptualising ideas

Created a new stream of events for the Sydney based events management company, Urban Agent. Most notably VIDinc, Australia’s first and the biggest convention for all things YouTube. The final event resulted in 6,500 elated fans at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre and news headlines all over Australia.• Creation of a annual Australian event• Handled multiple events including project management, online ticketing, mobile phone app development, email marketing platform, website development, Social media strategy• Prepared and negotiated successful secured sponsorship partnerships with key organisations such as Google, YouTube, Maker Studios and Boom Media Network• Coordinated all local and international artist contracts including organising logistics for 32 acts• Overseeing the compliance and all deliverables of the event in accordance with relevant contracted terms with key stake holders, artists, sponsors and venues• Undertaking market research, preparing strategies and developing events to identify and capture new market segments to generate new sales• Identified the untapped sector of “The C Generation” as a new profitable marketOther notable events• Jay Sean Australian Tour 2013 [Co Project management and execution]• Music Soulchild First Australian Tour 2013 [Full Project management and execution]

Appointed as a director and the CEO of a newly established event management company based on an ample amount of contact with artist management. Crisp Entertainment went on to create unique music festivals, special one off events for sponsors as well as Think Inc, the ideas conference.Role description• Handled multiple events including online ticketing, mobile phone app development, email marketing platform, website development , Social media strategy• All aspects of project management for each tour, festival and stand alone events• Building and managing strategic partnerships with key stakeholders such as artist booking agencies, contractors from the events industry, governing bodies, venue owners, promotional staff and sponsors• Negotiating the best possible pricing with relation to artist performance fee, production fees and contractor fees• Managing a large team of volunteers including motivating them and mentoring for peak performance• Overseeing the marketing, sponsorship and PR campaigns• Working under tight deadlines and strict budgets and taking full responsibility for all deliverables.• Developing the annual marketing plan to drive market penetration, ticket sale growth, cross-sell and customer royalty/satisfaction/retention• Competitor analysis including obtaining data regarding competitor’s objectives, strategies, capabilities and using that information to predict competitor behaviour.• Monitoring and reporting on and present results; from all initiatives and continuously seek improvement.

Melbourne, Australia

Creating and managing Australia’s largest urban infotainment portal. The role involved defining the vision of the organisation, setting goals and developing the business and marketing plan, along with a budget for the business over five years.Role Description• Creating a positive work environment for young music orientated individuals to record and distribute material internationally• Managing 10 part time staff members on a day to day basis• Producing and directing an online based TV show with over 500,000 views online and licensed it to ETV Sri Lanka for a national broadcast• Extensive dealing with government authorities, non-for-profit organisations and international companies to develop projects and various platforms to assist up and coming artists.• Working with leading media outlets, event management companies, record labels and other corporate organisations to manage events, develop sales and manage marketing strategies• Hands on involvement with all audio/visual aspects of all events managed• Preparing proposals and presentation material for prospective clients. Producing regular reports to shareholders and other interested entities.