Matthew Gidley Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, GB

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

I am currently a part-time student at Birmingham Newman University, studying for a foundation degree in Integrative Counselling.

Head of Strategy at TFI Lodestar, creating physical and virtual live events and experiences for businesses and associations.My responsibilities include brand and business strategy, internal and external communications, training and development, writing and creative direction, employee mental health and safeguarding.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

In August 2018, after nine years with Momentum Worldwide and nearly four years leading Momentum Chicago, I resigned my post and returned to the UK so that my wife could accept a job offer (only fair - she did the same for me back in 2014).Back home, I quickly found myself in the role of carer - to the elderly, vulnerable, and dying - the most challenging.

Greater Chicago Area

MANAGING DIRECTOR, MOMENTUM CHICAGOResponsible for around 80 FTEs, $20m annual revenue, and business development. Clients included U.S. Army, United Airlines, Mondelez International, Chevron, NIKE, and Random House Children's Books. NORTH AMERICA PRACTICE LEAD, EXPERIENTIAL MARKETINGResponsible for the growth, development, positioning and profile of.

UK & EMEA strategy lead and member of global Executive Leadership Team.Responsible for UK Planning and Strategy, and all UK Discipline heads (Shopper Marketing, Sponsorship, Consumer Events, Corporate Events, Retail Training & Advocacy). Happily married to the Creative team.Instrumental in re-positioning Momentum Worldwide as a total brand experience.

Originally recruited to focus on JMW’s Nokia Nseries retained relationship. Campaign strategy lead at JMW and member of IPG Team Nokia Planning Community. Responsible for JMW’s Nokia Nseries campaign strategy and planning, including content development and some key areas of creative delivery. Creative strategist, speechwriter to Nokia Multimedia CEO Anssi.

Freelance creative, strategist, writer, consultant, event producer. Regular clients included Line Up Communications, Jack Morton Worldwide, PCI Fitch, Cheerful Scout, Live, TFI Group, Franklin Rae Communications, TMB, makeUP, Karen Dunn Ltd, and Lawes Consulting. Created/wrote two award-winning films for Line Up Communications (“Being Meridien” for.

Where I learned the practicalities of the live events trade. At Line Up my role broadened to encompass all areas of traditional event planning and execution. Led creative sessions, wrote pitch documents, developed creative propositions and event themes, designed sets and staging, developed software and speaker support, wrote scripts for presenters and VT.

Member of the Tindal Street Press Editorial Committee, the panel that selected which submitted manuscripts would go through to publication. I was a member of the panel that approved Clare Morrall's 'Astonishing Splashes of Colour' for publication, a novel which subsequently earned a place on the shortlist of the 2003 Man Booker prize (the UK's leading.

Raw Edge had the largest distribution of any Arts Council funded publication in the UK, distributed free across the entire West Midlands region (inc Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Herefordshire).Co-edited all submitted content (poetry and short fiction) and wrote numerous book reviews. Contributed exclusive interviews with writers including Peter.

A crash course in what would later become Experiential Marketing; moving to Caribiner enabled me to test my arts event management experience in the world of corporate events. I worked as an assistant to various producers and quickly gained experience across a wide range of production disciplines. Also wrote pitch documents and keynote speeches, contributed.

Sole full-time employee, managing a small team of volunteers. Duties included creative programming, marketing, and advertising of Birmingham’s annual literature festival, also financial management, sponsorship revenue and maintaining the festival’s Arts Council funding. The two-week festival featured around 100 events in a variety of venues, including.