Laidlaw Opera Trust champions live opera as a uniquely thrilling art form, by supporting opera companies and houses to expand their reach and repertoire sustainably. Live opera captures the most intense emotions; helping us understand each other and life's biggest themes: love, loss, joy, anger and hope. It should be part of everyone's cultural capital. Goals of the Trust: - Bring opera to new audiences, making it accessible and inclusive - Support new and outstanding… Show more Laidlaw Opera Trust champions live opera as a uniquely thrilling art form, by supporting opera companies and houses to expand their reach and repertoire sustainably. Live opera captures the most intense emotions; helping us understand each other and life's biggest themes: love, loss, joy, anger and hope. It should be part of everyone's cultural capital. Goals of the Trust: - Bring opera to new audiences, making it accessible and inclusive - Support new and outstanding productions - Help opera to become more sustainable - encouraging innovation and collaboration - Sustain and retain British singers in the industry Show less

Implemented The Economist's strategy shift from small conferences to a large scale event model of annual "best-in-class" multi day conferences in Europe, Asia and North America. At the same time navigated The Economist events team through COVID with a quick transition to virtual events and move back via hybrid to in-person events. - Grew revenue and profit many times over, quickly, sustainably and through a period of great disruption - Change management and reskilling of… Show more Implemented The Economist's strategy shift from small conferences to a large scale event model of annual "best-in-class" multi day conferences in Europe, Asia and North America. At the same time navigated The Economist events team through COVID with a quick transition to virtual events and move back via hybrid to in-person events. - Grew revenue and profit many times over, quickly, sustainably and through a period of great disruption - Change management and reskilling of programming team through strategic transition - Acting as point of contact between events team and The Economist editorial team - Building and developing an international programming team of permanent employees and freelancers - Developing team culture to ensure close working relationships between programming, sales and marketing - Launching and positioning large scale events across Europe, Asia and North America on the themes of sustainability, technology, trade and industry, oceans, finance and the legal sector Show less

Helping organisations drive bottom-line growth in their events business

Global Head of the SuperReturn and SuperInvestor series; a multimillion GBP portfolio and the world leader in private equity and venture capital conferences.- Responsible for the P&L, team, product development and strategy- Recruiting, managing, training and developing a team of producers to create best-in-class concept, and ensure year-on-year quality improvement and revenue growth. - Forging effective working relationships between production, sales and maketing teams to… Show more Global Head of the SuperReturn and SuperInvestor series; a multimillion GBP portfolio and the world leader in private equity and venture capital conferences.- Responsible for the P&L, team, product development and strategy- Recruiting, managing, training and developing a team of producers to create best-in-class concept, and ensure year-on-year quality improvement and revenue growth. - Forging effective working relationships between production, sales and maketing teams to consistently beat targets and generate top and bottom line growth- Bringing the brand to new geographies including Sub Saharan Africa, China, Latin America and U.S. and building SuperReturn into the world leader in all geographies.- Launching and managing joint ventures with overseas offices, and ensuring flow of knowledge and ideas within and across teams from different backgrounds.- Building long-term relationships with sponsors, delegates and speakers to continuously improve quality of events and ensure they deliver value to all stakeholders.- Launching new business models for maximising brand value- Implementing change in strategy, processes and approach to continuously grow and strenghthen the portfolio and anticipate a changing market. Show less

Developed and generated content and liaised closely with sales and marketing teams for conferences in the private equity, hedge fund, asset-backed securities and legal services sectors.

Conference production plus recruiting, training and managing a team of producers for conferences in the Life Sciences sector

Headed up a team of conference producers producing events in the financial, real estate, FMCG and oil and gas sectors primarily in Russia and CIS

Launched Partnerships in Clinical Trials, which quickly became by far the largest and most successful event in the IIR (Informa) Life Sciences European portfolio.