Ian Lim Email & Phone Number

Singapore

• Event Director for Agri-Food Tech Expo Asia and aggregator for Singapore International Agri-Food Week• Reporting to the Executive Chairman, I am responsible for “Festivals” and “Event Management” business verticals of Sphere Exhibits managing a team of 6 sales, marketing and operations staff with combined annual turnover of over $4 million.• Appointed as the Festival Director of the Beerfest Asia in 2016 to achieve it’s highest visitorship. In the same year, inaugurated Singapore Coffee Festival to great reception by coffee lovers and the industry. In total, both festivals attracted over 53,000 attendees and generated revenue in excess of $2.8 million. In 2017, continued to build on the success of Beerfest Asia to increase it’s gross profit by over 50%. In 2018, successfully inaugurated the first overseas edition of Beerfest Asia in Shandong, China attracting over 100,000 visitors• Re-organised and set the new business strategy for the Event Management business vertical to increase revenue by 50% profitability by 100%.

Singaproe

• Business lead for the Gourmet and Lifestyle segment of the consumer division.• Responsible for the profit and loss of the Gourmet & Festivals business with key focus on business growth creation through both current markets and new market penetration. • Managed and grew the relationship with key sponsors of the events including major financial institutions and spirits companies. Successfully grown the revenue and profitability of the sector by 50% year on year.• Successfully conceptualized and started a new sub-segment of the Gourmet & Festivals business.

Singapore

Marketing Lead for Sphere Exhibits Consumer Events and Exhibitions Business comprising of over 20 events and exhibitions across various industries from F&B to Education.- strategise and oversee all aspects of the trade and consumer marketing activities of the various exhibitions and events of the company to achieve visitorship and sales targets.- develop and implement processes to exploit marketing synergies between the various events and exhibitions. Business Lead for the Gourmet and Lifestyle segment of the consumer business.- responsible for the project manage as well as the business development of the Gourmet and Lifestyle segment of the business including gourmet festivals Asian Masters and Gourmet Japan.

- Project managed gourmet festivals including Asian Masters and Gourmet Japan to achieve close to 100% attendance figures as well as profitability within the first 2 editions of the festivals.- Market consumer exhibitions to achieve attendance targets and partner deliverables including conceptualisation and implementation of marketing plan. Managed to achieve visitorship targets within budget for new exhibitions and increase of more than 15% efficiency of marketing costs versus visitorship for recurring exhibitions.- Assist sales team in identification of key audience segments and creation of USPs to achieve sales targets.- Operations lead for exhibitions.

- Responsible for servicing key accounts of the company including major companies such as MasterCard, NETS, Unilever and Exxon-Mobil.- Project manage the below-the-line marketing activities of the clients that was contracted to the company with the focus on customer acquisition, customer loyalty reward events and programs.

- Project managed the point-of-sales and merchant branding exercises for MasterCard which was contracted to the company.

Bba, Marketing

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