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London Area, United Kingdom

Supporting the VP in Media & Partnerships to deliver strategic, UK & multi-territory promotional deals with high-value partners. Providing specific promotional opportunities and expertise to EMEA promotions leads, concentrating on the implementation aspects of regional EMEA deals, as well as serving as a central point of excellence for issues concerning implementation of all promotional elements for Disney+.Successfully secured Visa for a long-term collaborative, integrated campaign across EMEA, as presenting partner for a wide range of Disney's 100th anniversary experiences including Disney100: The Exhibition, Disney100 The Concert and Wonder of Friendship: The Experience. Worked with the Disney VP as the client liaisons/project managing to VISA where we negotiated partnership deal, P&L management, contract/invoicing terms, event exposure touch points, logo lock-up brand creative, press releases and customer experience. Project managed Disney corporate brand client, Samsung during a product placement deal. Negotiated with Samsung and the Disney+ production team to implement their latest product into a future local D+ content production.Brand partnership outreach for Peter Pan & Wendy, Mandalorian, Marvel's Secret Invasion, Full Monty, The Bear.

London, England, United Kingdom

Secured a partnership with eBay UK, Disney's RON’S GONE WRONG and Make a Wish Foundation. eBay donated proceeds from the sale of second hand phones to the Make a Wish foundation and former One Direction member and voice star in RON'S GONE WRONG, Liam Payne promoted the partnership via his social media outlets. eBay supported the partnership with a £200k media spend.Activated a month long promotion with O2 Priority and THE KING’S MAN world premiere. The partnership was promoted via the O2 app and across all their social media channels.Brand partnership outreach, negotiation and activation for Marvel, 20th Century Studios, Pixar and Disney Animation content titles.

45 Mortimer Street, London

• Developed incredibly strong long-term relationships with numerous brand and promotion professionals.• Negotiated and maintained long term financial deals with various media; print, broadcast and digital partners, delivering outstanding results and competitive rates.• Led editorial teams to generate dynamic and creative advertorials.• Engineered and orchestrated experiential events designed to immerse audiences.• Collaborated and managed teams across the business to help deliver the best marketing / PR support and value. • Created screening programmes across various media platforms and cinemas to drive word of mouth.• Activated grass roots campaigns by working closely with agencies.- EDDIE THE EAGLE: Cravendale on pack promotion with £750k spent on ATL- LA LA LAND: Discover LA partnership – website placement and prize package- McQUEEN: Exclusive screening and Q&A at the V&A- MILITARY WIVES: ITV Loose Women partnership with 5 consecutive TV spots over a week, Royal Mail, Magic Radio, Travel Zoo partnership- MY LITTLE PONY: Shoe Zone retail promotion with in-store activity in over 300 nationwide stories - MY GENERATION: Carnaby Street, 1960s photography gallery pop-up shop- NERVE: Big Brother, Channel 4 partnership with on-air challenge- NINE LIVES: Animal Friends Pet Insurance promotions £200k ATL spend- THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 1: Kellogg’s Krave on pack promotion with £1m spent on ATL- THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD: Children in Need partnership with a 9 min produced TV segment- WONDER: 300+ Kindness Day free screenings with Cineworld, VUE, Picturehouse & Showcase

Freelance

Freelance work at Substance Global, a creative marketing agency that specialises in the creation of content and strategy across digital, social and PR for entertainment and brand clients. I worked on the Warner Bros. account and lead with digital PR to create maximum buzz at launch on these film campaigns - The Lego Movie, Blended and Into the Storm.

Responsibilities included looking after the Digital campaigns for following film distributor accounts Walt Disney Studios (Frankenweenie, Tinkerbell, Chimpanzee, The Lone Ranger, Saving Mr Banks) Twentieth Century Fox (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) and Fox Searchlight (The Grand Budapest Hotel).I worked with the Premier Corporate PR department on the following accounts - Sainsbury's (Christmas in a Day campaign), The London Screen Writers Festival 2013, Dystrify, The Glasgow Film Festival 2014, Andrew Eaton (Producer for Rush) and The Artists Partnership.

London, United Kingdom

Tasked to drive new business into newly built creative department at Premier. Worked on online creative for Walt Disney Studios on the following campaigns - Frankenweenie, TinkerBell, Chimpanzee, The Lone Ranger. Collaborated with the trailer production team on the Studio Canal release Byzantium and the production team with the Pearl & Dean Present’s cinema advertising.

Hired to start Premier PR's online/digital department from the ground up and to help give the company's offline offering its online counterpart. Tasked with hiring capable staff to help gain online/digital work from distributors in a very competitive environment. This was achieved successfully as the online department still has its original staff and with the combination of the offline department have won Screen International's Best PR agency of Year in 2011 and 2013.Responsibilities included looking after the Digital campaigns for following film distributor accounts Walt Disney Studios (Frankenweenie, Tinkerbell, Chimpanzee, The Lone Ranger, Saving Mr Banks, The Help, The Lion King 3D, War Horse) Twentieth Century Fox (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Glee in Concert) and Fox Searchlight (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Hitchcock, Tree of Life), Universal Pictures (Moonrise Kingdom, Zero Dark Thirty), Pathe (The Iron Lady), Entertainment (Silver Linings Playbook, The Master), Momentum Pictures (The Fighter, Lawless, Limitless, Shame) Lionsgate (50/50, The Paperboy) and HBO (Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, True Blood).

Developed and managed a wide range of experiential marketing, brand and promotional film campaigns for the youth and student market. Provided leadership and direction to a team to guide the creation of marketing/promotional materials and ensure congruence with objectives. Lead successful promotional campaigns on these theatrical releases – THE LIFE AQUATIC, DATE MOVIE, THE HISTORY BOYS, BRICK and CARS. Editor for the UK film website FIRSTMOVIES, compiling content and securing major competitions for the site. Editor for the UK film website FIRSTMOVIES, compiling content and securing major competitions for the site. Working with the FIRSTMOVIES research team on the regional screenings and recruitment of break out groups.

Worked within a team environment to carry out a full range of marketing functions. Assisted in Web site promotions, research and in communicating to potential promotional partners. Developed creative print and online marketing collateral. Provided direct support to Marketing Manager.

Sydney, Australia

Conducted third party, grass-roots and guerrilla promotional activities with theatrical releases such as WONDER BOYS, MAN ON THE MOON, A WALK TO REMEMBER, MAYBE BABY and these Australian film’s SAMPLE PEOPLE, RABBIT PROOF FENCE and TWO HANDS

Sydney, Australia

Worked on the film production sets driving cast to and from the studio for these movies being filmed in Australia – MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3, RED PLANET and the US TV show J.A.G.

Ba, Film, Theatre, Tv

Awarded an academic scholarship to attend UCLA with financial aid. Film critic, DAILY BRUIN, UCLA newspaper, 1996/97 Actor, UCLA Theatre.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Film/Cinema/Video Studies

Activities and Societies: Film Critic, ODIT, Adelaide University newspaper, 1994/95 Student President, Film Studies Department, Flinders.