Matthew Thompson Email & Phone Number

Bristol, Gb

South West Of England

Managing Facebook's Oculus and Portal accounts with retailers in the South West of England and South Wales

United Kingdom

Whilst working in the Experiential Marketing industry, I represented many leading global brands such as Coca-Cola, Mitchum, Oculus from Facebook and Nintendo to name a few.Leading a team of Brand Ambassadors, I had helped deliver promotional messages and material to the public be it on the ground in city centres sampling Coca-Cola Zero Sugar or inside one of the UK's biggest festivals creating a fun, memorable and engaging activation sampling Mitchum's deodorant to festival-goers. I attended various training sessions which in return gave me the privilege of being flown out to Switzerland and California on behalf of Oculus from Facebook to showcase and demonstrate their latest technology at private events. Similarly; my training enabled me to be placed in charge of a team of Riggers to construct demonstration stands on behalf of Nintendo in shopping centres throughout the UK.Whether leading a team of Brand Ambassadors as Event Manager, working as a Brand Ambassador myself, leading the construction of demonstration stands or being the face of a brand as a Demonstrating Specialist, I take great pride in delivering on my word and best representing myself, my employer and the client.

I have worked as a Background Artiste on several BBC productions as well as some Independent TV productions

Some of the brands I have represented include:- Oculus from Facebook; for Oculus Rift’s launch in the UK.- Natwest; at their sponsored IT20 cricket matches assisting with a VR experience and distributing branded merchandise.- EE; encouraging their office staff to partake in a competition.- IKEA; promoting the launch of a new store in Exeter.- Mastercard; at the Open Golf Championship for Mastercard’s private club house.

Some of the brands I have Event Managed for:Rowntree's, Haribo and J20

Some of the brands I have Event Managed for:Monster Hydro, Ikea, Mitchum, Desperados, Carlsberg Export, Barbie and Jägermeister

Some of the brands I have demonstrated for:- Sony Pictures; for a virtual reality experience in London and Hamburg for their release of the 'Spider-man: Homecoming' film. - Sky VR; at the private launch event of ‘Hold the World with Sir David Attenborough’ for the release of their interactive experience.- Oculus from Facebook; for Samsung’s Switzerland head office at their private networking event as well as for Facebook’s F8 Developers Conference in San Jose, California.

Some of the brands I have represented include:- SKY; on a nationwide roadshow training SKY’s staff on the relaunch of their SKY Sports package; as well as providing a related VR experience. Also on a nationwide roadshow visiting Sky’s offices to increase awareness of their Ocean Rescue Project.- Ikea; promoting the launch of a new store in Exeter.- Netflix; assisting with Netflix’s stand at a BT training event.- JTI; sampling the Logic Pro vape device and selling cigerattes inside festivals.

Some of the brands that I have represented include:- Nintendo; for the construction of their public demonstrating stands inside shopping centres nationwide.- Coca-Cola; providing stock to BA’s on a nationwide sampling campaign.

Some of the brands that I have Event Managed for:- Coca-Cola; with a team of staff sampling Coca-Cola Zero Sugar in public spaces and also inside festivals.

Voted to become the Partnership Councillor; representing the interests of 27 Welcome Break-partnered Waitrose stores nationwide at council meetings with the John Lewis Partnership’s senior management.

Part-time Sales Assistant quickly promoted to full-time Storeman in charge of store logistics, stock control, deliveries, orders and payments.