Ryan Bixler, Cmm Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Birmingham, Alabama Area

Oversee and facilitate all aspects of event and meeting planning from site selection, vendor negotiation, event registration, marketing support, onsite staffing and post-eventreporting. Systematically gather information to build customer confidence while ensuring commitments are exceeded for each event. Consult with customers to determine objectives and requirements. Provide timely and effective internal and external communication and collaboration, including high-quality interaction with senior management, sales teams, internal managers, distributors, producers, vendors, consultants, and key accounts.

Birmingham, Alabama Area

Partnering with clients across industries to manage their extraordinary incentive programs with passion, integrity, excellence, graciousness and innovation.

Birmingham, Alabama Area

Overseeing complex event operations and project management efforts of the Conference and Event Planning department at Lincoln Financial Group. Champions and enhances organizational initiatives by positively influencing and supporting change management and/or departmental/enterpriseinitiatives within assigned area(s) of responsibility. Overseeing event assignments for the department while maintaining vendor relationships and accurately staying up to date on key industry changes.

Radnor, Pa

Promoted to Manager in December 2014Program Management Types:Meetings and Conferences International IncentivesClient Entertainment Corporate SponsorshipsTrade Shows High Level Executive MeetingsResponsibilities Include:Directly manage a team of four event planners and oversee 75+ events a year.Identify and lead project teams to reach enterprise goals and objectives by collaborating with clientsLead event planner to coordinate site selection, budgeting, marketing/branding, food and beverage selection, production planning, electronic communication/registration, transportation, speaker selection, on-site management and post program metricsFluent on strategic meeting management tools on both CVENT and Starcite platformsDeep understanding of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) regulations and guidelinesAdvanced hotel contract negotiation skills with a focus on ROIDevelop event marketing and communication campaigns for internal and external target audiencesExperience working with Destination Management Companies and third party event vendorsBudget analysis and managementReceived the Lincoln Financial Distributors Achievement of Excellence award in January of 2012

Radnor, Pa

Overseeing day-to-day planning and operations of programs across the entire LFG enterprise. Use of CMM Platform, CVENT to accomplish - - Sourcing multiple vendors (Hotels, Offsite Venues, Transportation, Speakers, DMC's)- Negotiating/Reviewing Contracts- Budget Management- Building and Maintaining of Complex Registration Websites- On-Site Event Managing- Post Program Evaluation Creating and Communication- Post Program Budget Management and Bill Reconciliation

Millersville, Pa

Facilitated groups through high and low ropes course team building events.