Maaria Bajwa is a General Partner at Timespan Ventures at Timespan Ventures. She possess expertise in management, leadership, music industry, strategy, social media and 15 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "Maaria's exceptional organizing abilities have made her one of the most important assets in the management of festival operations. She has streamlined operations across the various committees of the festival, increasing the professionalism and standards of the festival, setting new heights to achieve for years to come. The ease with which she works with various types of people both within the festival staff and with festival partners has contributed to the standards that the festival now holds of quality concert/festival production. It takes willingness to learn, dedication, and initiative to make any large enterprise grow and Maaria has shown to possess all of these great qualities of leadership.", "Maaria has been a great help at Cooking.com in implementing our various marketing initiatives and I would strongly recommend her. She picks things up quickly runs with them, often going beyond what's requested of her. Among her regular tasks, she's been particularly adept at the following: • Organizing, implementing, and facilitating the creative strategy behind CITI flash sale specials. This also includes determining the most successful promotions, and targeting the right products to the demographic of CITI specials. • Pulling data and weekly sales summaries for Starbucks • Social media—work on Twitter strategy, helping to more than double our followers in less than three months. • Set up creative for sweepstakes on partner sites i.e. Starbucks, Betty Crocker, Rachael Ray, etc. Highlights • CITI Specials - refined offers over a 3 month period to optimize clicks and sales • Tasty Awards - worked to get Cooking sponsorship, including logo placement on the Tasty Awards homepage and Cooking.com gift cards as giveaways • Starbucks sales—worked directly with the client to provide weekly traffic and salses reporting • Survey analysis—did creative behind our surveys to Kraft, Betty Crocker, Paula Deen, RR, etc. and helped with the data analysis, refining the primary demographic for each site.", and "I worked a booth for the Jazz/Reggae fest. In addition I've been going for the past few years. Anytime they bring in Roots or DUb LOOKOUT. It's always a great event and one of the cheaper reggae festivals of the summer. One Love !"