Lori Machens Email & Phone Number

New York, London, Toronto & Cape Town

Previously based in the NYC office, November 2006 - February 2009.• Heavy Word, Excel, Outlook and calendar management and scheduling across numerous time zones• Gatekeeper, heavy phones and high-profile client contact• House management & renovation of four residences and coordination of domestic staff• Event planning - luncheons, high-end receptions, business dinners, client events• Extremely heavy travel and accommodations organization, international moving house

London, United Kingdom

• Day-to-day personal assistant to the five members of a boy band• Dealt with all aspects of their lives from contracts and international travel to personal shopping• Sourced properties, liaised with estate agents, planned and oversaw the actual moving house. Put into place the necessary utilities and services, household staff. Furnished and decorated the homes.• Diary management for both work and personal time• Accompanied the band to events and appearances• Maintained their residences in their extended absences• Handled personal finances as well as band finances, invoicing, royalties, etc.• Served as office manager/EA to CEOs, Robert Mackintosh and Jayne Collins

London, United Kingdom

• Organized and supervised casting sessions throughout London• Negotiated with agents, advised clients on appropriate daily and buyout rates• Prepared PowerPoint presentations for clients, created and edited documents and emails• Managed accounts receivable and payable, invoicing• Coordinating international travel arrangements, both personal and business• Planning and implementing of children's activities (in lieu of nanny), hired staff

Los Angeles, New York And London

Post production coordinator on various films including The Hours and Changing Lanes.Company Manager and Assistant to the Producer on Bat Boy The Musical, When Pigs Fly and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (for John Freedson Productions, on tour)• Coordinated travel and accommodations for directors, editors, actors, American crew working in London• Dealt with cast and stage crew on behalf of the producer: contracts, union reporting and paperwork, accommodations and per diems, time cards, payroll, conflict resolution, schedules• Managed screenings of films in New York both for critics and test audience• Assisted with the organization of the get out and subsequent storage of set, costumes, props• Extremely heavy calendar management on both coasts and London• Drafting and proofing documents, contracts, emails, correspondence, press releases and publicity artwork• Handled both personal and business finances – bills, receipts, expense reports • Event planning, both company-related and personal

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