Emily Ackerman Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Lead business development efforts across the Southwest Region, driving growth and expanding Bennett Thrasher’s market presence.• Cultivate and maintain strategic relationships with key clients, partners, and industry leaders, particularly within the construction, real estate, manufacturing, and M&A industry sectors.• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration between service teams to ensure seamless client service and successful project outcomes.• Organize and lead high-impact networking groups to foster industry connections and share insights on market trends.

Dallas, Texas, Us

• Collaborating with fund managers and stakeholders to identify and support innovative, high-performing companies.• Actively monitoring portfolio performance, providing insights, and helping shape strategic decisions to optimize returns.

Dallas, Texas, Us

• Provide strategic guidance and support to Gardenuity, contributing to the company’s growth and innovation in the home gardening industry.• Collaborate with leadership to identify new market opportunities and enhance customer engagement, driving long-term value creation.

Dallas, Texas, Us

• Develop a strong pipeline of new customers through direct or indirect customer contact, and prospecting industry referral sources.• Develop and execute direct sales programs, set and manage prospect meetings, assist team in preparing for sales calls and most importantly, close deals.• Prepare and deliver presentation to clients and industry participants as part of the sales process and as part of marketing efforts to increase brand awareness.•Coordinate relationship-building activities with team members, subject matter professionals, and other personnel.•Foster and expand the firm’s referral network.• Host and attend industry meetings and conferences.• Use various research tools to identify prospects and lead the Business Development team in prospecting.• Maintain CRM to track prospect activity and status for pipeline status report.• Educate the team on industry events and trends while working with LGT Partners to drive internal referrals.

Enterprise, Al, Us

• Bring focus, energy, and go-to-market skills to help the firm win more business, close cycle times, and improve our overall win rate.• Build-out, develop and manage both our existing pipeline and a pipeline of new business opportunities through organization and CRM tracking of high level sales-oriented activity.• Leverage existing relationships and create new relationships with organizations, with an emphasis on their executives, to foster a high level of engagement.• Identify trends, customer needs and be constantly developing a pool of prospective partners and clients in support of our ability to grow and advance our mission.• Organize conferences and other firm events, generate ideas and other meaningful content to increase outreach in our target markets.

Dallas, Texas, Us

• Compiles and manages lists of prospective customers, qualifies and develops leads, progresses leads to prospects, and prospects into sales.• Keeps sales pipeline current in Salesforce.com and communicate sales progress to management. • Network with ERP vendors, channel partners, referral partners, prospects and customers to identify specific business problems and develop ideas around service offerings.• Leverage marketing insights, external reports, and historical knowledge to analyze customer needs, trends, demographics, and purchasing habits in order to build a targeted sales strategy that meets goal targets.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

• Earned Business Development Manager of the Month: October 2014, April 2015, July 2015, March 2016, April 2016, September 2016, May 2017, and June 2017 for most sales, appointments, and new clients on the books within the cluster.• Develop comprehensive integrated multi-platform programs using Entercom Media's assets such as terrestrial spot radio, on-air endorsements, events, podcasts, custom contesting/promotions, digital and social media elements.• Understand client needs and provide solutions that drive results for advertisers while building and maintaining solid relationships with clients.

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Created and authenticated all written content on social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Wordpress, Pinterest, Vinmo, Hootsuite, Wishpond, Yelp, and Linkedin.• Assisted with account creation, promotional marketing, and real time brand marketing for celebrities, athletes, people of high public interest, jewelry companies, non-profits, hotels, and charities.

Dallas, Texas, Us

• Prepared and typed complex legal documents, reports and correspondence requiring knowledge of legal terminology, procedure and document formats.• Handled general inquiries relating to matter status and/or acted in a liaison relationship within the organization to facilitate efficient workflow in legal matters or projects, including scheduling meetings and managing contacts.• Maintains matter status and information in a matter management database, relating to specific assigned matters of supervising associates, and handles billing matters for assigned matters.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Aided with day-to-day curatorial operations. Duties included assisting with research for special exhibitions and installations, creating PowerPoints, completing data entry, assembling proposals and funding notebooks.• Assisted Senior Curator with temporary exhibition openings, such as Intersections Art Projects & Alyson Shotz: Ecliptic.

• Participated in day-to-day activities such as meetings with clients, reviewing files, and conducting research.• Compiled and maintained up-to-date and accurate inventory records of all gallery works onto Wordpress.• Helped set up and worked at many gallery openings, including Mary Page Evans, Photography Between The Wars, and Wolf Kahn.

• Assisted owner with design projects including e-blasts, flyers, and catalogs.• Provided computer design input to department personnel learning CS4 programs and provided administrative support for the organization.• Created layout and design for online inventory portfolio.• Helped set-up and work at Gallery openings and closings.

Bachelor'S Degree, Art History & Graphic Design

High School