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, Nichole Krauss, Jess Walter and Jeff VanderMeer. I also interview debut up-and-comers like Frederick Joseph, Sanjena Sathian, and Mateo Askaripour. More on the show can be found on my home page here: https://www.markcecilauthor.com/As an author and journalist, I'm repped by Tina Pohlman at Ross Yoon Agency.

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 communities, by connecting readers and writers virtually during COVID and beyond.

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, strategy and content*Pioneered and currently manage our ExecConnect private meetings program that generates 1,500+ 1:1 private meetings annually among limited partners and general partners in the private assets space*Emcee events; deliver presentations, moderate on stage

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 assets*Emceed, moderated, presented at events and Webinars

*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 previous bi-weekly schedule*Other duties: moderating panels; co-designing editorial calendar; writing news; co-designing look of issue

*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