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Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A contract role leading PR activity to promote the marquee Border-Gavaskar Test Series between Australia and India. Focused on driving attendance and engagement with media and multicultural communities.

Antigua And Barbuda

The ICC representative for PR, media and marketing leading in to the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 co-hosted by the United States and West Indies. Working out of the Cricket West Indies office in Antigua, my role is to develop and support the execution of the integrated marketing and communications program to generate significant global coverage, provide.

Within this versatile role, I helped bridge the ICC media, marketing, digital and partnership teams on the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023. This consultancy role included:- Leading the media team for the Qualifier in Zimbabwe- Delivering the UNICEF partnership at the World Cup in India, which saw the ICC launch a gender equality based cricket learning.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Led the media and communications strategy for the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, an event that saw over 750,000 fans come through the gates to see the world's best players from 16 international teams. Highlights included leading on the event's Fixture Launch announcement and Captain's Media Day, which generated global media coverage and iconic imagery.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A contract role as the primary media contact for the BBL squad, managing day-to-day media, broadcast requirements, player appearances and digital content.With a can-do approach, over the 14-game season we provided 157 media opportunities outside of contractual requirements. This resulted with over 1000 articles published on the team and over 200 stories.

Melbourne, Australia

Privileged to have worked on the ICC T20 World Cup Australia 2020, the pinnacle global event for the fastest growing format of cricket. The women's event culminated with a record 86,174 people attending the final at the MCG - the largest ever crowd for a women's sporting event in Australia and second most globally.With the Local Organising Committee, my.

London, United Kingdom

On secondment with the ICC, was part of a world class team delivering digital output from matches and content sessions at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. Overall the tournament gathered 3.2 billion video views across owned channels, more than any other sports event in history.Role included collaboration with broadcast and communications teams to drive.

Hong Kong

Worked with an ambitious team aiming to leverage the growth of cricket in Hong Kong. A role that began developing marketing and media strategies to increase promotion of the game, morphed into responsibility for leading the organisation of two major events. The events punched above their weight and I had the opportunity to be hands on across every facet of.

Developed, wrote, and edited news packages for both television and online platforms. Although specialising in cricket, I covered all sports both domestically and from around the world. Major sporting events over the last two years that I have played a key role in covering include...- Australia's 2013 Ashes Tour of England- Australia's 2014 Tour of South.

Sports writer for Foxsports.com.au. In this role I produced and wrote my own stories as well as subbed and published other content for publishing on the site. The job description also required me to promote content on the website through social media channels and the wider News Limited networks.

Waverley Oval

Voluntarily co-ordinated the off-field management of Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club - the largest single cricket club in NSW. My role involved;- Managing the recruitment and retention of coaches and players. The club lifted from 18th to 4th in two seasons in the Club Championship- Increasing sponsorship revenue, which was tripled in the first two years..

Managed the official website of Australian cricketer David Warner. This role involved; - Ghost wrote monthly blogs.- Promoted personal sponsors.- Provided content ideas.- Collated media from sources around the world to feed from website.- Bio writing.- Drove official Facebook page.- Promoted Warner31 brand.

Sports writer for The Sunday Telegraph - this included;- Writing feature articles, news stories and match reports. - Packaging newspaper stories for online publishing.- Researching stories for lead writers.