Katrin Wright Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, US

New York, US

• Collaborating with editorial leadership across Insider developing new and ambitious opportunities for live storytelling within the newsroom, working in collaboration with Insider Events and Special Projects
• Cultivating a stable of newsroom talent to moderate and host.
• Nurturing would-be newsroom participants, managing training and skills development, and giving feedback.
• Developing programs for existing sponsored and custom events.
• Recruiting speakers and talent, and representing the brand as the main point of contact with all speakers and moderators throughout the event cycle.
• Representing the brand with prospective partners and sponsors, eliciting ideas and creating opportunities for collaboration.

New York, US

• Leading program development – key topics, themes, potential speakers - for custom, sponsored and editorial events
• Managing and executing speaker operations

New York, NY, US

• Developed and leading the building of agendas for all multi-day, multi-track conferences for the leading publisher in the marketing, media and technology space.
• Managed and executed speaker recruitment campaigns for all AdExchanger conferences (Industry Preview https://youtu.be/ZN4f9Fc7n24; Programmatic IO San Francisco and New York https://youtu.be/xT9lErNI8Us ), as well as.
• Executed speaker operations for up to 90 speakers per conference before during and after the event.
• Lead media management for the entire conferences including enhanced presentation decks, housekeeping and promotion slides, lower thirds and session title slides as well as created run-of-show and emcee scripts.
• Contributing to all levels of speaker and agenda promotion and introduced personalized speaker promotion to engage speakers in the conference promotion cycle.
• Executing judge operations and judging process for AdExchanger Awards (https://youtu.be/DwpGBkr6-5g).

New York, New York, US

• Negotiated contracts for acquisition of celebrity talent and industry thought leaders, sponsorship agreements for company-owned, partnered, and industry-wide events, as well as memberships with professional associations
• Managed 126 events in 2015 and 218 events in 2016. Events included internal functions, industry sponsorships, and company-owned conferences. Coordinated more than 20 speakers across 100 engagements in two years..
• Produced a comprehensive brand ambassador and thought leadership program, training a pool of company and partner/client speakers for panels, presentations, and other engagements
• Executed pre-event communication, onsite branding, swag and other takeaway collateral, gifting, post-event functions, as well as travel logistics for international events
• Lead a team of seven employees to accomplish company-owned conference, Unify Tech. Daily management of three direct-reports including a junior events manager, community manager and brand execution manager

New York, New York, US

• Managed sales-oriented events including intimate client dinners, panel discussions, client entertainment and client advisory boards
• Planned internal events across national business units, encouraging team building and employee morale

New York, New York, US

• Developed event participation plan for EMEA, focused around the German market, including pre-event communications, onsite branding, partner relations and vendor negotiations

• Managed external communications for local businesses to drive awareness to their brands through direct mail, advertising and social media planning
• Coached business owners in English language communications best practices to enrich their client relationships across various outreach platforms
• Supported trade show planning and execution for a luxury home accessories brand
• Clients: Karstadt Warenhaus Parfümerie; Einfach Schöne Bäder, Leipzig; Douglas Parfümerie

Ahlen, NRW, DE

Organisieren von Seminaren, Kampagnen und Sales events.

Halle, Sachsen-Anhalt, DE

Teaching the tutorial for 'Introduction to American Studies'.

• Identified, engaged, cultivated, solicited and stewarded a portfolio of individuals to commit to frequent gifting to worthy philanthropic organizations
• Clients included Amnesty International, Save the Children, World Vision, World Wildlife Fund

• Organized corporate functions for holiday and client events for guest counts in excess of 1,200
• Strategized and negotiated all budgetary elements of events from $15,000 to $100,000
• Planned and executed all events on a logistical level from coordination of catering and security to ambiance solutions for architecturally complex venues
• Expanded business offerings to include customized awards packages, enabling clients to interact more personally with our brand