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-Lead Corporate sales, Sponsorship and Events with a bigger focus across the precinct-Steer national partnerships growth across Clublinks sites in NSW, Victoria and WA

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Achieve business growth objectives at Moore Park Golf and Centennial Parklands Sports Center.-Corporate Sales across the precinct-Event delivery and customer service-Partnerships and Sponsorships

New York City Metropolitan Area

School Yard All-Stars developed a range of the highest quality, replica high school jerseys from past and present professional athletes, manufactured in The U.S.A with every single sale giving back to the schools that helped shape their legacy.Launching the business involved understanding the market landscape and opportunity, analysing the target market, the development of a unique business model, product development and a comprehensive take to market strategy.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Managed a number of short-term apartments available as holiday rentals in New York City. Sourced apartments, negotiated leases, marketed the properties through platforms such as AirBnB and delivered excellent customer experiences as evidenced by average 4.9 from 5 star rating.

Greater New York City Area

America Scores is a national non-profit that partners with urban schools to provide a high quality, team-based program that integrates soccer, poetry and service-learning. Its innovative approach improves students’ health, academic achievement and civic engagement.Member of national event planning task force for National Poetry SLAM held at NYSE, the organizations biggest annual fundraising event. Executed fundraising & development strategy for individuals, corporations, foundations and events. Worked with National Board Chair to pioneer event & expo strategy. Led monthly think tank meetings with like-minded non-profits to discuss best practice development.

Edison, Nj

The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (M.A.A.C) is a Division One college athletics conference in north-eastern U.S.A. The conference receives an automatic bid to The NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball Tournament.Developed and executed sponsorship strategy focusing on basketball assets of member schools and M.A.A.C Tournament. Maintained relationships with existing sponsors and marketing managers from each school to ensure fulfillment of sponsorship and activation agreements. Created sponsorship credentials presentation to communicate the conference’s strengths to potential sponsors.

Sydney, Australia

Directed and mentored 5-member sport and special project teams. Tasked with retaining and growing key sports and event partnerships with top 20 sporting associations in Australia. Maximized advertising revenue by aligning FMCG & consumer brands with the News Corporation assets. Planned, developed and executed strategic business plans by category and client. Led all new partnership discussions and chaired meetings with editorial, circulation, marketing, and network sales teams. Directed staff recruitment, stakeholder management, and performance management efforts.

Sydney, Australia

Managed sports portfolio across both newspaper and online offerings and developed competitive category strategy. Identified and pursued new sport partnership business opportunities. Maintained and grew solid existing relationships with key organizations and their agencies including The National Rugby League, Australia’s second largest sporting association. Responded daily to strategic briefs from consumer brands explaining how to leverage our sport audience. Administered budget, and negotiated contracts. Created, briefed and communicated the marketing collateral for major sporting events such as The Olympics and The World Cup.

Sydney, Australia

Drove efforts to maximize advertising profits by developing new business and incremental revenue initiatives for both newspapers and website presence. Cultivated new business relationships with key sports event managers and organizers.

Sydney, Australia

Worked on fulfilling all back office administration duties for one of Australia's premier small cap investment managers, Paradice Cooper Investments. The fund controlled assets valued at over $1 billion. Duties included the placing of orders, responding to IPO offers, the reconciliation of portfolio holdings, general support and interface with brokers and advisors.

Bachelor Of Arts/Law, Law, Arts

Focused on Media Law, Trade Practices Law, and Intellectual Property Law

Graduate Certificate, Sports Management, 4.0

Completed Subjects: Sport & Society Sport Marketing and Media Internationalization of Sport Business Sports Law Management of Sports.