Rob Kurland Email & Phone Number

Beverly Hills, California, US

I lead the Global Procurement team for Live Nation Entertainment, the world's leading live entertainment company and one of the world's busiest e-commerce sites - ticketmaster.com. Our team provides sourcing and procurement services across a wide range of categories, including Technology, FF&E, F&B, Shipping & Logistics, Facility Operations, Travel, and.

Woodland Hills, CA, US

I jointly drove efforts to evolve 5-year old, center-led organization beyond transaction processing roots to add collaborative strategic sourcing and interests-based negotiation capabilities through client outreach, introduction of new systems and results-oriented processes, and team coaching/training.I led a 20-person team responsible for $800M in annual.

Burbank, CA, US

I influenced decision-making and deal execution across wide range of high-profile initiatives involving some of Disney’s highest-spend suppliers, leading a team that delivered $300M in hard savings and cost avoidance benefits from 250+ projects across multiple direct and indirect categories.I championed innovative ways to generate incremental business.

I was invited to present to the Supply Chain Thought Leaders Roundtable, a group of about 40 of the world’s leading academics from institutions in the US (e.g., Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Wharton, Berkeley, UCLA), Europe and Asia, that meets annually to discuss current themes in supply chains, broadly defined, including global supply chains, sourcing.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• I joined IBM Global Services as a result of IBM's acquisition of PwC's consulting arm, continuing to lead projects for Disney's Strategic Sourcing & Procurement team that ultimately contributed $110M+ in hard savings.
• Devised innovative returns processing and inventory management approach to overcome systemic limitations in availability of key data. Conceived and conducted analysis of holding and remanufacturing costs, which.
• Created negotiation strategy to convert relationship between a studio and its distributor from cost plus to a hybrid incorporating cost plus, fee-based, and performance-based components, which delivered $4M savings via.
• Led covert analysis of impact of subsidiary’s decision to execute a standalone agreement for manufacturing and distribution services. Forecast transition and five-year costs and compared to parent’s existing.

As an unpaid member of the Board of Directors for an acclaimed non-profit professional theatre, arts education, and community outreach organization that has been bringing theatre, music, dance and visual art to the Exposition Park region of Los Angeles since 1997, I led efforts to establish a long-term financial planning process and partnered with.

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• Representative Projects:
• Co-developed overarching negotiation strategy between a studio’s home entertainment division and its $1B global manufacturing and distribution partner, then adapted strategy to negotiations that generated $110M+.
• For a Consortium of International Rights Management Agencies, crafted conceptual organizational design – regional offices, shared service facilities, and outsourced support – and drafted initial policies and procedures.
• Devised conceptual software portfolio to enhance international television sales by enabling better exploitation of full catalog; developed business case to justify implementation of portfolio, and identified.
• Informed executive decision-making regarding IT investments by articulating the benefits of improving home entertainment supply chain operations throughout the full product lifecycle. Worked with key operations.

• Representative Projects:
• Modeled potential license fees for On-Demand Television Service in six Middle Eastern countries to determine viability of establishing new joint venture, which led to client postponing plans due to concerns about.
• Supervised functional design and development of rights licensing prototype for studio’s $900M international television distribution arm. Teamed with sales force to identify ways to improve product and rights.
• Guided leaders of $6B public educational institution through development of high-level application strategy to improve performance within resource-constrained environment, and developed presentation to help market it..
• Developed recommendations used to alter backstage layout for major theme park expansion, which streamlined operations for high-profile theme park attraction while increasing capacity and ease-of-use within limited.
• Project managed design and implementation of time collection and payroll processing system for hourly employees at major studio and theme park company. Conceived and conducted quantitative analysis to correct.

Mba, Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Fine & Applied Arts (Concentration In Stage Management & Arts Administration)