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Cambridge, Ma, Us

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Representing the world's largest & most renowned music festivals, including: Coachella, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Stagecoach, Hangout Music Festival, Electric Forest & many others, with direct oversight over our properties in the SE & Midwest.

New Orleans, La

A collective of award-winning festival producers, offering executive-level consulting, strategies & tactics. http://valmont.io

New Orleans, La

Direct global sponsorship, partnership and brand integration initiatives for HUKA Entertainment festival & touring properties, including Tortuga Music Festival, BUKU Music + Art Project, Pemberton Music Festival (previously). Manage key relationships, including: Diageo, Ford, Chevrolet, Corona, MolsonCoors, Anheuser-Busch, Pernod Ricard, Perrier, Coca-Cola, EJ Gallo, SiriusXM, and others.

New Orleans, La

Led marketing and communications initiatives for Hangout Music Festival (Pollstar 2011 Festival of the Year) and other HUKA Entertainment properties. Managed sponsorship and partnership initiatives for Hangout Music Festival, including management of global clients, including Chevrolet.

Provided strategic direction for Empire Theatres online and interactive initiatives including: empiretheatres.com website, empiretheatres.mobi mobile website, Empire Insider CRM program, contests, SMS, email & e-commerce. Managed Empire Theatres social media strategy, including launch of Empire Theatres Facebook community. Executed strategic marketing initiatives with partners including major motion picture studios (Universal, Warner Bros., Sony), iTunes & Coca-Cola.

• Managed Moose Light, Moose Light Lime, Cold Filtered Light and Dry Ice brands• Led development and execution of annual marketing plans• Planned and executed new creative campaign and media plan for Moose Light brand• Managed marketing strategies, budgets and volume forecasts for brand portfolio• Coordinated advertising & creative development, media planning, social media strategies, CRM direct mail program, retail promotions, packaging development, SKU/brand launches and POS displays• Provided strategic creative direction to agency partners for marketing materials and advertising campaigns spanning television, radio, outdoor and online • Managed launch of Moose Light Lime brand in Atlantic Canada

• Managed Cold Filtered Light and Dry Ice brands• Led development and execution of annual marketing plans• Managed marketing strategies, budgets and volume forecasts for brand portfolio• Coordinated advertising & creative development, media planning, social media strategies, CRM direct mail program, retail promotions, packaging development, SKU/brand launches and POS displays• Provided strategic creative direction to agency partners for marketing materials and advertising campaigns spanning television, radio, outdoor and online• Initiated and executed rebranding of Dry Ice brand involving extensive target-market research and directed a comprehensive packaging and marketing strategy to fruition

• Developed and implemented pre-qualification process for sub-contractors • Collected and analyzed vital information and developed a database to track the progress of supplier contracts • Organized and executed national open-house campaign to recruit new sub-contracting firms