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Los Angeles, California, United States

Media relations, content marketing, corporate communications, and social media to help architects, designers, and real-estate professionals achieve double-digit growth.• Serve as the point of contact for as many as 10 clients.• Interface with clients’ marketing teams and C-suite leaders to identify and maximize business-development opportunities through targeted media outreach.• Consistently create successful awards submissions.• Lead thought-leadership bookings: broadcast, podcast, webinars.• Extensive earned-media placements in international media: endemic, business, general news, broadcast, print, digital.• Align stakeholder communications among all project partners.• Publicizing projects with as much as a $1B+ construction budget.

Westlake Village, Ca

Public Relations Agency specializing in luxury and transportation, multi-tasked creative and communications functions, served as a daily point of contact for clients and media requests.• Orchestrated media new-product launches that yielded $15M in pre-orders.• Promoted private-jet travel, five-figure timepieces, and seven-figure cars.• Represented a consumer-electronics company through post-crowdfunding GTM and, ultimately, acquisition, including CES booth-staffing and media hosting.• Earned media work with Arch Motorcycle created momentum for a Super Bowl commercial for Keanu Reeves.• Managed media relations for several EV start-ups.• Drafted keynote speeches and interview talking points for C-level executives.Select clients: Hasselblad cameras, Jet Edge private aviation, Husqvarna Motorcycles, Keanu Reeves' Arch Motorcycle, American Expedition Vehicles, Echobox Audio, Icon watches and vehicles, Neal Feay artistic aluminum design, Vanderhall autocycles, Bollinger Motors, Emory Porsche, Putnam Leasing.

Moorpark, Ca

PR/Digital/Creative AgencyManaged the communications/public relations/media outreach for the re-launch of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles and the Mullin Automotive Museum. Was also part of the creative/communications team that launched the MotoAmerica race series.• Hired to spearhead communications for the 18-month Petersen Automotive Museum transformation.• Orchestrated a 600-person media launch event on a $1,500 budget; media coverage totaled an estimated $1.8M in ad-value equivalence. Steered gala fundraiser red-carpet activities. Project-managed, ghost-wrote commemorative coffee-table book.• Developed new business.• Managed a cross-functional team of seven full-time staff plus interns.• Helped hire and train staff.• Managed and grew social media accounts.

Greater Los Angeles, California, United States

Public Relations, Marketing, and Editorial Services, specializing in transportation and entertainment.• Entrepreneurial experience launching a sole-proprietor creative-services agency.• Created turn-key editorial material (text, images, video), branded content, marketing collateral, and White Papers for such clients as Hearst, Lexus, and Chrysler.• Contract Editor-in-Chief of a B2B publication, experience with wholesale and retail product sales, supply-chain challenges.• Led communications and organized an annual media event for a client that expanded office space from 10,000 to 120,000 square feet during my tenure.• Wrote or re-wrote approximately 200 new-product press releases.• Implemented an email marketing campaign that transitioned a client’s mail-order business from traditional mailing to e-commerce during a two-year period, significantly improving ROI.• Wrote and/or edited more than 50 books for the education, entertainment, and self-help industries.