Michael Betts Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

• Professional Summary
• Dynamic team leader with 30+ years’ experience in public and private event sales, and management for live sports and entertainment, city government and professional arts sectors.
• Event sales (booking) & event management and production environments.
• Experienced in providing a strategic vision and leadership necessary to nurture goals, staffs and procedures, and successfully achieve desired outcomes.
• Extremely knowledgeable in contract negotiation, review, compliance, and settlement.
• Extremely knowledgeable in event operations & logistics; sponsorship procurement and strategic operation; for-profit and not-for-profit fundraising and development; volunteer programs and management; and customer.

Portland, Oregon Area

Responsible for generating sales revenue and increasing overall activity by booking the Rose Quarter facilities which include the Moda Center, Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Rose Quarter Commons, Exhibit Hall and Rose Quarter parking facilities.Duties and ResponsibilitiesDevelops and executes sales strategies and tactics to secure event rental business for.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Pacific Northwest College of Art – Portland, ORSpecial Events Manager 2013- current
• Successful leadership of all major fundraising events for Pacific Northwest College of Arts (PNCA)
• Successful leadership of PNCA department meetings, conferences, receptions and art tours
• Experience with major individual and corporate donor solicitations, cultivation, invoicing and acknowledgment
• Worked with event committees and chairs to plan and execute successful events that meet or exceeded net income; coordinated all event logistics, design, communication plans, etc. with vendors and committee leadership
• Guided the development and implementation of budgets, developed timelines to achieve goals; responsible for progress reports

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

• Directed/implemented a new “volunteer-centric” atmosphere company-wide, ensuring that volunteers are engaged, retained and recognized for their efforts
• Served as liaison to CSVA Board, providing direction guided by the strategic plan of the CSO
• Served as primary point person for Friends of the Pops, attended committee meetings and coordinated all activities
• Ensured that net revenue goals were achieved
• Served as primary point person to volunteer committees for all major fundraising events
• Worked with event committees and chairs to plan and execute successful events that meet or exceed net income

Greater Seattle Area

• Successful team player in fast paced, high volume public event sales arena
• Experienced in managing multiple and diverse teams for effective and successful business development outcomes
• Responsible for Senior-level McCaw Hall bookings and all Seattle Center Campus bookings including initial event procurement and intake, scheduling and contracting, event and staff accommodation and follow up
• Responsible for establishment and maintenance of booking policies, pricing and contract payment negotiations
• Managed events for multiple, city-owned, 74-acre Seattle Center campus facilities
• Responsible for conducting site inspections with clients while matching them with appropriate facilities

management of the SRO/Nordstrom Spring Fashion Ovation Fashion Show. Experience drawn from seven years of fundraising efforts which produced between $120,000 and $150,000 each year. Managed Seattle Rep's 250 member young subscription group, The Crew. Created and managed over 55 social events for group. Responsible for annual donation of $10,000 to Seattle.

Led, trained and managed lobby staff, rental staff and events staff for three theatres/venues. Served as House Manager for three theatres. Responsible for the supervision and scheduling of 41 union ushers (Local SEIU #6 now Teamsters), as well as 350 volunteer ushers for nine productions per season. Managed concessions operations, budgets and staffs..

Managed seasonal staff of 18 for an 85 acre, 512 seat open air theatre on the grounds of Blossom Music Center. Liaison and events services representative between Porthouse Theatre Company, Kent State University, and Blossom Music Center. Managed theatre performances, private rental events (including event booking and contract negotiation) and university.

Graduate, Venue Management

Bfa, Theatre Design And Production

Bachelor Of Fine Arts, 1994 Theatre Design/ Arts Administration

Education record