Matt Curran Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Universal City, Ca

Day-to-day responsibilities are to ensure talent participation in panels, screenings, promotional events, photoshoots, promos, public affairs initiatives, ad sales, symphony/marketing campaigns, and content for social & digital platforms. By employing my robust interpersonal skills, I develop and nurture strategic relationships with talent, publicists, and managers. My managerial expertise enables me to lead a seven-person team to streamline day-to-day workflows. By leveraging my rich background in talent management, I effectively oversee logistics and budgets of all talent travel processes and manage timelines while leading talent operations for appearances, events, and shoots. My role here entails identifying methods to turn NOs into YESs while serving as the main point of contact for all Peacock talent asks. I am accountable for harmonizing and promoting the brand and specific titles while partnering with internal clients.Some of my key accomplishments associated with this job role include:• Played a vital role in the successful launch of Peacock streaming service in 2020; top priority of NBCUniversal• Ensured talent participation in all major NBCU and industry events such as Upfronts, Red Carpet Premiers, Conventions, Festivals, cross-platform “symphony” opportunities like appearances at the Super Bowl, Sunday Night Football, WWE events, Premier League, and appearances on NBC entertainment programs.• Steered all logistics for Super Bowl guests and led Super Bowl integrations• Headed TR for original programs and films, plus top library content like The Office and Yellowstone.• Developed and nurtured strategic Peacock and NBCU relationships with talent, publicists, managers, and agents targeted toward catering to talent comfort and a mutually beneficial existence.

During my tenure as a VP of Talent Relations & Events for USA Network /SYFY Channel, I have finalized multiple tasks related to booking talent travel, preparing talent itineraries, and addressing and resolving all queries regarding events, travel, and scheduling. My role was to manage a high-performing team that fronted all facets of talent invites/requests, ensured smooth logistics at all appearances, and increased the one-person team to four. My extensive background in project management assisted me in annually producing and managing 30-40 corporate, media, and consumer events. I was a key point of contact in executing red-carpet premieres, ensuring presence at award shows, and leading all logistics surrounding talent at festivals and conventions.My key successes during this role were:• Spearheaded all facets involved in event production and talent management.• Built a successful TR function at NBCU entertainment cable from scratch and created a combined TR & Events function aimed at leveraging the advantage of shared resources and efficiencies.• Accelerated growth of Syfy brand and attained competitive advantage in San Diego and NY Comic Cons; oversaw logistics for 80+ talent at San Diego and NY conventions.• Executed on campaigns for “Mr Robot”, which were responsible for Emmy and Golden Globe wins, a breakout of several stars and assisted in rebranding of an aging network.

Universal City, Ca

For NBCUniversal Corporation, I performed as a Director for Talent Relations and Community & Corporate Affairs, and my responsibilities were to lead NBC Entertainment’s philanthropy efforts. My impeccable managerial skills empowered me to direct a high-performing team. My role here was also to oversee talent requests, appearances, and communications. I was accountable for planning industry/charity events honoring talent and executives. It is worth mentioning that I administered daytime publicity staff and drove major publicity decisions for the daytime genre.My signature achievements were the following:• Supported talent participation in all marketing and promotional activities for the network.• Communicated major company announcements while liaising with the Human Resources department.• Administered scalable budget of $14M publicity budget and $400K in charitable contributions budget.• Piloted all talent logistics at major events, including NBC upfront, TCA press tours, Super Bowl, and Olympics.I also have some additional experience as a Ratings & Corporate Information Manager at NBCUniversal Corporation – Universal City, CA and as a Communications Leadership Development Program within General Electric – Fairfield, CT. These were all great opportunities for me to accelerate my career growth.