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Greater Los Angeles Area

Catch&Release, Inc. (www.catchandrelease.com) specializes in dynamic curatorial research, clearance, and licensing of the best emerging images, video, and stories from anywhere on the open web for creative agencies and brands all over the world. Catch&Release solves a specific problem that touches almost every creative, producer, and content creator in the production industry today: how painful it is to find relevant, exciting content that's ready to license for increasingly quick-turnaround commercial projects. Traditional stock is often too "stocky"​ and UGC is often overwhelming in volume with ambiguity around rights and clearances. Catch&Release makes it easy for creatives to sift the gold from the dirt to find the best content out there, with a verified process of clearance and licensing that gives Producers and Business Affairs teams peace of mind with an elegant end-to-end experience.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Responsible for enterprise accounts across multiple industries, including Brands, Media, Ad Agencies, Print on Demand (POD), and Book Publishers.

Responsible for negotiation and execution of deals with licensees and remained responsible for client accounts. Additional duties included generating revenue that met or exceeded sales goals and expectations. Also served as department trainer. Worked closely with senior management with the strategy and exploitation of licensing opportunities.

Duties included management, implementing ideas for improved procedures, analysis, forecasting, and reporting. Also served as team mentor, and liaison to business process re-engineering team. Worked with customers to resolve issues in professional and timely manner, and legal department to ensure proper compliance.

Negotiated and executed deals with licensees, remained responsible for accounts. Additional duties included generating revenue that exceeded goals and expectations. Worked closely with management for strategy and maximization of licensing opportunities.

Responsible for negotiation and execution of deals with licensees and remained responsible for client accounts. Additional duties included generating revenue that met or exceeded sales goals and expectations. Also served as liaison to IT department.

Primary role was to assemble selection of appropriate content for client’s research request. Additional duties included training sales team on company content.

Primary role was to manage and service wholesale client database. Additional duties included sales to retail clients. Also served as analyst to wholesale business unit. Worked closely with senior management to ensure quality products.