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

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.
• 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

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