Mark Cecil Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

The Thoughtful Bro is a live author interview show and podcast broadcasting weekly on social media startup A Mighty Blaze. Guests include Booker Prize and National Book Award Winners, as well as NYT-bestselling authors such as George Saunders, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, T.C. Boyle, Maggie O'Farrell, Caroline Kepnes, Phil Klay, Jonathan Lethem, Yaa Gyasi.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Proud to be a ride-or-die member of the publishing ecosystem during one of the greatest upheavals in its history. Books change lives, and at A Mighty Blaze, we're down for the cause.As one of the original members of a literary social media start-up that's been covered in People, The Washington Post, The LA Times, and more, I'm focused on building literary.

Greater Boston Area

• Head of the PartnerConnect series of events, which recruits 4,000 attendees and over 600 speakers annually through 12+ live events and Webinars;
• Oversee sales, marketing, and editorial team for a rapidly expanding live events series, growing an average of 25% annually;
• Manage software development team for our proprietary 1:1 meetings program and online community, including spearheading whitelabelling efforts for software licensing;
• Conduct market research for strategy and new live event and Webinar development;
• Work across divisions in a rapidly growing and dynamic B2B publishing company, coordinating among multiple stakeholders across editorial, sales, and side-by-side brands;
• Lead events on site, including emceeing and moderating sessions.

Wellesley, MA

*I build lasting communities through live events in the private markets and insurance industries. I also:*Manage a devoted and enthusiastic team of 10 to create multiple major conferences throughout the year, recruiting 500+ speakers and 2,500+ delegates*Own the P&L and manage all aspects of the events business, including marketing, sales, logistics.

Greater Boston Area

*Managed multiple major alternative assets conferences in the private equity, hedge fund, real assets, insurance and venture capital communities. *Established and ran the ExecConnect private meetings program*Lead creation of all conference content and strategy for Thomson Reuters Private Markets Group in PE, VC, hedge funds, insurance and real.

*Managed staff of 5 reporters, graphic designer, hired staff for industry leading, 21-year old magazine (www.buyoutsnews.com)*Assigned stories on all aspects of private equity industry, helped reporters shape articles, guiding them through several revisions; edited content*Maintained Web site; ramped up on line activity to posting daily, as opposed to a.

*Led reporting on fundraising and institutional investing, broke major stories that were later picked up by national publications*Managed fundraising database, published quarterly, for which I was in contact with each of the U.S. private equity firms raising the several hundred LBO funds in the market