Lars Thorn Email & Phone Number

Marina Del Rey, Ca, Us

Events Across America As Well As Germany, Colombia, India And Brazil

• 2019 Advance Overall Trip, Site, Crowd & Finance Leads for Senator Kamala Harris in CA, CO, IA, IL, NC, and SC.• 2019 Advance Camp in Washington, DC. Invited to lead advance site/press breakout sessions, 1,500 people attended.• 2018 Mayor Andrew Gillum’s Gubernatorial race in Florida as Site Lead for rallies and Election Night Crowd Lead.• 2018 March For Our Lives Las Vegas Crowd Lead, built and managed a crowd of 7,000; trained and managed staff.• 2017 HuffPost Listen To America Bus Tour Advance Director interviewing 1,700 people at events in 25 US States.• Advance Team for President Obama, First Lady Obama, Vice President Biden, Dr. Biden, Former President Clinton, Secretary Clinton and Senator Kaine, including travel to Germany, Colombia, India and Brazil twice for Biden bilateral meetings.• 2016 National Crowd Lead for Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine for Hillary For America in NY, PA, NV, CO, FL, CA.• 2016 & 2012 A-Team/Crowd Team Lead for Democratic National Conventions in Philadelphia, PA & Charlotte, NC.• 2010-2016 traveled with VP Biden in every advance role on more than 30 trips to 5 Countries and 13 US States.• Organized President Obama’s rally at USC, building a crowd of 37,500 people and managing 500 volunteers in 2010.• Organized rallies for President Clinton, Governor Brown and Senator Boxer at UCLA and SJSU, recruiting and training hundreds of volunteers. Collected a national record 5,600 voter commitment cards between the two rallies. • Coordinated the “Get out the Vote” effort at 30 California colleges and universities for the 2010 midterm election.• Helped open and run Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign headquarters in Santa Monica, managing 1,000 volunteers. • Asked President Obama a question at the LA Town Hall meeting featured on NPR, NBC News, and the LA Times. • Organized and trained more than 400 volunteers to make 42,000 “Get out the Vote” calls on Election Day 2008.

Greater Los Angeles Area Selling Online Around The World

Co-Created: Ice Cream Empire, Whiskey Business! Brew Ha Ha! & Read Between The Wines! • Successfully funded 4 fun party board games on Kickstarter, raising almost $100,000 from 1,273 Kickstarter backers. • Sold more than 15,000 games with almost a half million dollars in sales, each game was awarded “Amazon’s Choice”• Whiskey Business! was most recent game named by Kickstarter a “Project We Love” on first day of 2018 campaign.• Ice Cream Empire is a family game that inspires the next generation of entrepreneurs; it raised $30,000 on Kickstarter.• Brew Ha Ha! was successfully funded in June, 2016 and was launched at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver.• Read Between The Wines! debuted in 2014, UNCORKED! Games have sold out all 5 print runs selling out each year. • UNCORKED! earned $9,000 in startup capital winning the annual Pepperdine business plan & fast-pitch competition.

Broadcast Through Live-Stream From Redondo Beach, Ca To The Globe

• Hosted and broadcast a daily sports card show focused on Hockey cards that live-streamed to fans around the world.• Create an interactive online community to sell hockey cards with $115,000 revenue and $50,000 profit in 5 months.

Manhattan Beach, Ca

• In April 2014, Clean Energy Experts sold to SunRun one of the largest solar companies in the world for $57 million.• First employee, helped grow company from a startup to acquisition, personally generated 2,600 leads and $250,000.• Responsible for managing the business-to-consumer operations for Clean Energy Experts, playing an integral role (the first employee) in growing the company from a startup into the industry leader in solar sales lead generation.• Created and managed a scalable call center program to generate and distribute high-quality solar leads in real-time, contributing to exponential revenue growth.• Managed call center staff, recruiting new employees and conducting online training and best practice tutorials.• Oversaw an industry-leading distribution platform to ensure lead quality and maximize profitability and efficiency.• Served as the primary voice of the company, promoting solar energy and handling hundreds of inbound calls weekly.• Personally generated more than 100 leads each month through inbound and outbound calling, canvassing, radio ads, web ads, warm-transfers, promotions, and events, utilizing CRM, web forms and mobile applications.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Created athletic program for school including organizing tournaments with 8 other schools in Southern California.• Head Coach for 8 sports teams for boys and girls in grades 6-8 including budgeting, team management and coaching.• Teach games to more than 200 boys and girls in grades 4-8 in bi-weekly classes in a variety of athletic disciplines. • Choir Director for 6-8 grade choir class, including two annual performances and director of faculty choir for events.

• Represented the school at a variety of outreach events to recruit new students including conferences, community expos, and school fairs. • Worked with local media outlets to promote events and elevate the school's reputation. • Created and implemented a social and new media strategy for the school and helped facilitate school tours and communication with potential families. • Performed various other tasks related to development, enrollment, and the sports program.

• Helped open and organize Barack Obama’s Santa Monica campaign headquarters, recruiting, retaining, and organizing a volunteer staff of more than 1,000 citizens in the months leading up to the 2008 presidential election. • Managed events including the Santa Monica Listening Tour stop for 200 people, using 35 volunteers. • Acted as a spokesperson to the media and was featured asking Obama a question at the LA Town Hall meeting on NPR, NBC News, Radio Free America, the LA Times and YouTube (more than 15,000 hits). • Organized and trained more than 400 volunteers on Election Day, resulting in our office making more than 42,000 get-out-the-vote calls to critical battleground states around the country.

• Produced SportsTravel, a monthly trade publication with 60-pages of full-color content with a distribution of more than 16,000. • Wrote monthly stories and features on sports governing bodies, events, news, and conducted interviews. Researched and selected photography, including cover art. Updated website content daily.• Managed the art department, two assistant editors and several freelance writers while also working with printer.• Oversaw events such as annual awards program and trade shows.

• Managed various events including the ninth annual Olympic Dinner at the Hilton Washington for 2,000 guests, as well as media events, school visits, Walter Reed visit, sponsorship events, and White House visit for the Olympic athletes. • Communicated strategically with hundreds of congressional offices and created and nurtured strategic Capitol Hill and media relationships with TV, radio, and print media coverage. Generated more media coverage than ever before for US Olympic team’s visit to White House. Recruited and trained 25 volunteers to help facilitate all ancillary events.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Wrote hundreds of game stories, press releases, and biographies for media and website. Edited and wrote numerous media guides. Secured stories on local television and in national publications as spokesman of NCAA tourney teams.

• Wrote hundreds of game stories, press releases, and biographies for media and website. Edited and wrote numerous media guides. Secured stories on local television and in national publications. • Served as media spokesman for several teams including appearances at NCAA and A-10 Tournaments.• Performed as public address announcer, official scorer, and TV/radio statistician, and various scorer's table duties.

• Handled interview requests from TV, radio, and print from across the U.S., including 650 media members for Nationals Opening Day with the President. Worked with local TV and radio to secure players as live guests. • Facilitated all home and away press conferences, media information, and communication with opponents including the team’s first Opening Day. • Served as the media contact, writing official press releases regarding baseball information and community relations activities. Was on-field point person for the four hours leading up to game-time and handled post-game interviews. • Responsible for all credentialing for media from seven countries and all over the United States.• Assisted with the daily game notes and writing and editing the inaugural media guide including stats and player pages.• Recruited qualified staff to serve as official scorers, interns, and game-day personnel.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Handled interview requests from TV, radio, and print across the U.S., including 650 media members on Opening Day. • Facilitated press conferences, wrote press releases, media guide, game notes, statistics and credentialed media.

• Directed and recruited staff in broadcasting, baseball information, scoring, and radio talent. • Served as spokesman for team and stadium events including Baysox Baseball Club, Eastern League All-Star Game, drive-in movies, promotional nights, haunted house, etc.• Created media coverage in TV, radio, and print including Fox, CBS, ABC, ESPN Magazine, USA Today, etc.• Managed stats staff, disseminated stats to the Eastern League, opponents, media, scouts, and coaching staff.• Wrote and edited a weekly e-mail to 30,000 fans, game programs, and press box materials.• Created all web content (press releases, game stories, photos, and graphics) and oversaw the website redesign.

Bowie, Maryland

• Served as spokesman for team and stadium events including Eastern League All-Star Game and a boxing match.• Created media coverage in TV, radio, and print including Fox, CBS, ABC, ESPN Magazine, USA Today, etc.

46 U.S. State

Sydney, Australia

Mta- Master'S Of Tourism Administration, Sports Management

Activities and Societies: Assistant Sports Information Director, SID for women's basketball, baseball, women's soccer, swimming & diving.

Ba, German; Psychology Minor

Activities and Societies: William and Mary choir; Ebony Expressions; One Accord; ghost tour guide; campus tour guide; Spotswood Society.