Eric C. Leach, Mba Email & Phone Number

Alvaton, Ky, Us

Bowling Green, Ky

• Oversee all aspects of Bowling Green Ballpark including running the Minor League Baseball team, Vette City Catering Company, and Bourbon & Brewfest events.• Currently host over 190 events from business meetings to 10,000 person concerts, along with 66 baseball games.• Lead all aspects of team operations, sales, marketing, hospitality, and promotional events.• Set a franchise record in gross revenue in back-to-back years in 2021 & 2022. • Launched a new catering and concession company, Vette City Catering, for the 2019 season.• Increasing group and hospitality sales by 124% and per caps by over 25% in 2022. • Negotiated and oversaw 2.1-million-dollar stadium renovation project during the 2018 off-season and a 3.5 million expansion in the fall of 2021.• Successfully negotiated the acquisition of Bourbon & Brewfest event and launched two new festivals in 2023. • Orchestrated successful marketing campaign that featured the Hot Rods in the New York Times, ESPN, Baseball America, and other publications in 2016, 2018, 2019, & 2020• Increase corporate partnerships by 25% for the 2021 season.• Trained and developed sales staff with proven results that have resulted in staff moving up to sales, management, and executive positions within MiLB, MLB, MLS, and NFL.• 2019 Midwest League Executive of the Year.• Won the MiLBY award for promotion of the year in 2016, and South Atlantic League franchise of the year in 2022.• Established new special event departments that produced 386 special events in three years.

Florence, Kansas

• Managed operations of a 560-acre camp and retreat center for World Impact’s Midwest region. • Executed all aspects of hosting over 40 camps and retreats each year. • Implemented strategic shift from residential programming to full time camp and retreat center. • Developed new vision, purpose statement, re-branding and strategic planning. • Managed and trained staffing and volunteers for hosting and serving clients and World Impact events. • Responsible for budgeting, sales, donor procurement and facilities.

Louisville, Kentucky Area And Santiago, Dominican Republic

• Facilitated teams of Americans in the Dominican Republic and Haiti while they work to serve the island of Hispaniola. • Oversaw the logistics of hosting over 1,000 people annually. • Coordinated G.O. Ministries top producing fundraiser at Churchill Downs in conjunction with the Kentucky Derby.-Recruit, train and manage over 600 volunteers over the course of the event. -Prepare, display and sell all Derby merchandise at Churchill Downs. -Produced three consecutive years of record sales and monies raised for G.O. Ministries.• Accountable for financial analysis on projects in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. • Recruited, trained and managed all interns for G.O. Ministries

• Responsible for all aspects of ticket operations including season tickets, mini-plans, individual, group and corporate event ticketing.• Accountable for training sales staff in results proven sales techniques. • Developed new strategy for sales division that resulted in highest attended season in fifteen years. • Increased overall ticket sales revenue by over 17%. • Part of team that set highest marks for overall profitability in ownership’s history. • Maintained relationships with all ticket holders.

• Recruited to return to the Legends after spending three seasons away. • Re-established Group Sales department by developing business action plan, sales training and new product lines. • Won 2007 South Atlantic League sales executive of the year award. • Increased sales and gross revenue by over 90% in year one and an additional 11% in year two. • Produced back to back record sales years of over one million in gross revenue.

Masters Of Business Administration

Bachelor'S Of Science, Business Leadership

Education record

Activities and Societies: Scholarship recipient for Football & Academics