Gary Lynch Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny

Responsible for brand management of three market-leading brands in the maritime, signage, and bar industries. Revenue for the Marine Log brand has doubled since 2020 through a new product development strategy that has expanded our conference business and digital product offerings; developed strategic partnerships with two industry associations to launch events for Sign Builder International; and relaunched Bar Business Media as a digital-only brand serving bar owners/operators.

New York, Ny

• A consultant who helps clients achieve accelerated revenue and profit growth• Expertise in business development, sales strategy, and sales leadership• Expertise in event management for virtual, hybrid, and live events• Industry advisor to private equity/investment firms looking to invest in B2B media/events

Greater New York City Area

Directed daily operations/business development, financial management, and brand strategy, for Informa’s Live Experience+ Group. Responsible for five global multi-platform brands serving markets in live event production (LDI), esports/ experiential events (XLIVE), fitness & health (Club Industry, premium teas (World Tea), and House of Worship (WFX). In December 2019, Informa sold Live Experience+ Group to Questex.• Developed new sales infrastructure, sales strategy, and new sponsorship deliverables delivering record revenue performance for portfolio's largest event, LDI, with 30% year-on-year growth in attendee/sponsorship revenue. • Acquired XLIVE, a conference and content platform serving the experiential event industry, and launched the XLIVE Esports Summit with events in Los Angeles, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi. • Increased digital KPI’s across all five brands with increases in page views, unique visitors, time on site, and lead conversion due to new inbound marketing and content strategy. • Developed new infrastructure for sales, marketing, content, and operations teams that improved operating efficiencies, reduced costs, and increased profitability.

New York, Ny

Joined Emerald Expositions with the acquisition of HOW Events. Directed daily operations, sales operations, financial management, brand strategy, and business development for HOW Events portfolio. • Delivered 25% topline revenue growth for HOW Design Live, the largest and fastest-growing annual graphic design conference in North America. • Launched the REACH Conference, a new event focused on design thinking and the strategic role senior-level creative professionals provide within mid to large-size organizations. • Acquired Dieline Media and the Dieline Conference, a brand serving the growing package design market. • Successfully integrated the HOW Events business operations into Emerald Expositions.

Directed the daily operations of F+W Media’s largest B2B brands in their Design, Publishing & Beverage Communities. Responsible for overall business/financial management, brand strategy, sales, marketing, content, and product development for digital content platforms, e-commerce, online education, events, magazines, and books. The business was sold to Emerald Expositions in 2014.• Delivered over 35% revenue growth for three consecutive years for HOW Design Live, the largest graphic design brand in the world.• Launched HOW Design University (online education) and MyDesignShop (e-commerce), two of the fastest-growing digital platforms at F+W Media.• Launched HOW Interactive Design Conference, a multi-city event serving the web design needs of graphic designers, that increased franchise revenue by 50%.• Managed Digital Book World, the largest annual event serving the eBook market, and launched Digital Book World Marketing Conference to help book publishers with digital marketing strategies. • Expanded World Tea Media franchise to include World Tea Academy (online education) that helped delivered 20% annual revenue growth. Launched five regional World Tea Bootcamp workshops.

Directed the daily operations of the Digital Media Group and the U.S. division of UK based Incisive Media. When Incisive Media merged their North American operations into the newly acquired ALM business in 2009, I was responsible for leading the Incisive Media integration with ALM until completion.• Direct overall business/sales/financial management of Digital Marketing Group - Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo series, Search Engine Watch, and ClickZ. • Managed the largest search engine trade show in the world, Search Engine Strategies, revenue growth of 65% in the first year by expanding the Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo series to include events in Hamburg and Paris while growing existing events in New York, San Jose, Chicago, Toronto and London. • Launched new, high-level search engine conferences in emerging global markets including Germany, France, Singapore Dubai.• Launched a series of conferences under the CLICKZ brand that served digital marketers.

Successfully turned around two underperforming franchises and restored both to profitability. MARHedge is a New York-based media company that serves the hedge fund market and FOW is a London-based media company serving the derivatives market. In November 2006 the business was acquired by Euromoney and absorbed into the existing Euromoney business units.• Responsible for day-to-day business/financial management of two separate operating divisions in New York and London prior to Euromoney acquisition.• Portfolio included 15 events in North America, Europe and Asia; paid subscription and controlled publications; an Internet Broadcast Channel, e-newsletters and the hedge fund industry's largest database.• Launched conferences in Grand Cayman, London, Singapore, New York and India.

Diversity Partners, a startup venture, was a marketing and consulting firm specializing in teaching corporations how to adapt their products and services for people with disabilities. Business closed in 2003 due to lack of funding.• Responsible for day-to-day management of business operations including finance, human resources, production and sales.• Involved in the development of the Avis Access program for the Cendant Corporation

• Day-to-day management of Thomson Technology Group, a media division serving the financial services, health care and business intelligence markets.• Product titles included Securities Industry News, Health Data Management, Traders Magazine, Bank Technology News, DM Review and Insurance Technology News.• Product portfolio was comprised of 12 publications, one annual trade show, 15 conferences and two profit generating websites

• Day-to-day management of the Managed Care Group.• Responsible for sales, marketing and product development for two publications – Managed Healthcare News and Pharmacy & Therapeutics (P&T).• Launched two web initiatives – Formkit.com and Managedhealthlinks.com.• Developed the P&T Society, an association for P&T committee members. P&T magazine became the association’s official publication.

Held three positions during my tenure at Miller Freeman including Publisher of Insurance & Technology, Group Publisher of Vision Care Group and account manager at Meeting News.