Lucy Coleman Kost Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Virginia, US

• Established Kost Collection, an antiques and interior design firm, offering tailored design consultations, custom antique sourcing, and professional styling services.
• Curate a 250 square foot display within Gramercy Collective, showcasing a handpicked selection of antiques and high end furnishings and decor.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Managing performance marketing activities including WSB's SEO, SEM, Website, Email, and Blog
• Led transition of website from Ruby on Rails to Wordpress platform; work with website developers to improve and add new functionality to wsb.com; highly involved in web design decisions to best serve WSB & its clientele.
• Create and update all pages on the WSB website, including blog, topics, resources, and speaker pages. Update and create new speaker profiles in Salesforce CRM.
• Work with a variety of contractors to identify, plan, and develop various marketing materials for WSB’s sales team.
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with new and existing speakers, as well as working with WSB data and sales team to identify market trends to ensure speakers are best positioned in the marketplace.
• Identify prospective speakers that align with sales team and customer needs, leading to recruitment and onboarding of new high profile exclusive and non-exclusive speakers.

Honolulu, Hawaii, US

• Proposed, sold, and operated all aspects of luxury corporate events across the Eastern United States to businesses of all sizes; served as day-to-day contact, maximized client return on investment while ensuring target.
• Project Management - Maintained correspondence with vendors; coordinated contracting, payment, and event operations to ensure client satisfaction, as well as reconciling the internal sales database/tariff.
• Creative lead on client proposals; planned supplementary activities including galas, dinner events, spouse programs, tours and transportation. Developed event budgets, some higher than $900,000, contracts, and client.

Washington, DC, US

• Project and budget manager for production of the Historic Hotels 2019 Annual Directory, an annual publication of all hotels in the collection, 600,000 copies printed and distributed. Included proofing and editing pages.
• Production of website and print materials for the Historic Hotels Annual Conference. Included creation of conference schedule, as well as complimentary brochures detailing the conference for guests.
• Researched, wrote, and edited content for hotel web-pages, milestone celebrations proclamations, and Historic Hotels press releases. Produced ideas for monthly Discover & Explore newsletter, sent to over 300,000.
• Administrative support for Executive Director, Historic Hotels of America and Historic Hotels Worldwide, including creating professional presentations, member webinar presentations, updating member records CRM.

New York, NY, US

• Proposed, sold, and operated all aspects of corporate events across the Eastern US, to businesses of all sizes; served as day-to-day contact, maximized client return on investment while ensuring target profit margins.
• Maintained project correspondence with vendors; strong vendor relationships, coordinated contracting, payment, and event operations to ensure satisfaction, as well as reconciling the internal sales database/tariff.
• Creative lead on client proposals; planned supplementary activities including galas, dinner events, spouse programs, tours and transportation; developed event budgets, contracts, and invoices, sales kits, promotional.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Scheduled meetings on Capitol Hill and at Government agencies, attended meetings and took notes for Vice President.
• Performed research and created memos for Association members, based on current events and changes in policy, distributed to an audience of 5,000 people.
• Attended hearings and markups; produced notes on outcome and relay to Vice President and members.

• Onsite day of event management; planning; and coordination of timelines, set up, and creative details of each event; ensured customer satisfaction throughout events.
• Maintained direct contact with all vendors, ensuring that contracts were properly executed and that vendors were paid in a timely manner.

New Orleans, Louisiana, US

• Produced large volumes of cakes, cupcakes, pastries, and embellishments for various desserts on a daily basis; trained new pastry staff and sales assistants.
• Baked and cooked all necessary components for each product on menu.
• Maintained inventory and organization, forecast product amounts for the following week.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Hospitality Management Major, Fine Arts Minor

High School Diploma, Study Abroad Program

Study Abroad Program