Leslie Brown Email and Phone Number

Nestle Nespresso USA ~ A&E Raabe, Inc. Sarasota, Florida Professional Brand Ambassador for Nespresso, worldwide pioneer and market leader in highest quality portioned coffee. Passionate, committed spokesperson building United States presence for all Nespresso products.

Primary duties focused on managing all aspects of internal/external communications for mid-size online education provider with measurable performance factors: quantity of traffic, conversion and average sales.Intuitive facilitator who challenges the status quo and influences decision making to improve product positioning, promote growth and increase demand with measurable bottom line results.Conceived, wrote, edited content for more than 70 Websites to increase company exposure and profitability while maintaining new content strategy, increasing search engine spidering, site placement and visitor growth.Directed and motivated staff writers to create powerful content to boost page clicks and company positioning via links and search engine optimization.Initiated social networking that improved site exposure and increased Call Center sales by 20%.

Co-founded, conceived, launched and promoted Realist Art Movement (RAM) Exhibition during Art Basel Miami, world's third largest art show.Successfully raised more than $1 million from Venture Capitalist to launch RAM.Responsible for all aspects of international/domestic public relations/advertising campaigns including media relations, ad design and press releases. Additionally, served as functional expert managing corporate marketing and promotion of multiple art businesses.Managed public relations for Century Gallery in Washington DC. Efforts led to domestic and international recognition as one of the great galleries to see and in which to be shown.Charged with creating marketing brochures, content layout, Website content and other marketing functions designed to provide a competitive advantage and grow collector base.Conducted in-depth market research for a wide-array of organizations which has proven instrumental in creating highly competitive collateral marketing materials as well as proofreading existing materials to ensure 100% accuracy.

Government Affairs consulting firm specializing in High Technology issues. Interfaced with government policy makers to bolster American competiveness in High Technology Industries. Efforts sustained domestic semiconductor manufacturing.Successfully fostered coalitions through special events for members of Congress and the High Technology sector.Entrusted by senior management with serving as highly effective/organized Project Manager with complete responsibility for leading staff and directing all advertising and public relations campaigns.

Leslie Brown was a valued member of the Can Manufacturers Institute's team in the 1980s and early 1990s. She executed marketing strategies and promotions on behalf of the can industry which to this day underpin our industry's growth.Robert Budway, President, Can Manufacturers Institute

Responsibilities included serving as primary industry contact with trade, local, national and international media. Charged with fostering prosperity for this multi-billon dollar U.S. National Trade Association can industry.Successfully conceived/launched innovative retail and bottler incentive programs resulting in increased industry sales and profitability.Recognized as first to coordinate multi-industry marketing programs and obtain cross-industry funding for food and beverage multipack distribution.Increased canned beverage market share in several distribution channels, including the convenience and warehouse segments.Strategized, created, wrote, placed advertisements and initiated public relations campaigns to encourage beverage can recycling. Advanced product lines, increased sales, expanded distribution channels and played vital role in 68% beverage can market share growth in 13 years.Supervised public information campaigns designed to promote aluminum beverage can recycling, which achieved highest recycling rate, 57%, and bolstered market penetration.