Experience

The Honeypot Children's Charity

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Corporate Partnership Manager

  • Jan 2021 - Present



Bank of America Merrill Lynch

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Charity Account Manager

  • Jan 2019 - Jan 2021

  Manage UK Charity Partnership between Bank of America and The Honeypot Children’s Charity where we have an annual six figure fundraising goal Lead on the strategic development of the partnership as well as motivate and inspire employees and senior staff to raise funds for the charity Work closely with the head of networks and lines of business to discuss and assist on their CSR activities and events for the year Create and implement successful fundraising and volunteering events across the bank on a large scale and also on a grassroots level Lead liaison for Bank of America UK charity committee; steering the agenda, chairing the meetings and proactively supporting/leading committee decisions and outcomes Network with, support, and prepare reports and appropriate feedback for key stakeholders in both the charity and the bank Work closely with the communications team to share the key messages and foundation of who The Honeypot Children’s Charity is to bank employees. Assist with media relations on PR coverage of corporate support where appropriate Due to recent global events transferred the entire partnership to a virtual/digital sphere and had to creatively re-think how we successfully produce the charity partnership and achieve fundraising targets Show less



JIA Group

• Group Event Director

  • Feb 2016 - Oct 2018

  JIA is a well-established restaurant group in Hong Kong with award-winning restaurants serving a variety of Western and Asian cuisines. - Lead the events team to create consistent successful, press worthy, luxury events across the JIA Group properties and also externally with catering opportunities around Hong Kong.- Ensure team is meeting monthly group budgetary targets and report directly into the CEO to ensure events team is meeting their expected objectives- Lead restaurants to ensure they are performing to the highest standard possible for all event based activations - Liaise with luxury, corporate, high net worth clients for their events, ensuring their requests are met seamlessly- Keep consistent communications with all the JIA teams, from operations, accounting, PR and marketing as well as the senior management and stake holders- Created the events team from scratch, started as Event Manager, built our event portfolio which traditionally looked at one property to looking group wide (across 12 properties) and built on what can be achieved within the events spectrum to increase profit margins - Lead JIA Group to become the go to and noteworthy event venue destinations and caterers for luxury high net worth clients and individuals across Hong Kong. - Created JIA Group Catering, offering external catering across Hong Kong, used by Hugo Boss, Chanel, Audemars Piguet, Wall Street Journal, UBS etc - Participated JIA Group restaurants in large outdoor public events such as Taste of HK (2016, 2017 and 2018) and notably Longines Master’s (2017) where we were the dedicated food caterer for the whole event for up to 50,000 guests and visitors. - Lead the events team yearly through Art Basel HK where we are the go to venues for Gallery and Luxury Brand events, putting on over 30 large-scale VIP events within the space of 5 days. Locations spread across HK. Budgetary target within this short space of time of over £250,000. Show less

• Group Event Manager

  • Mar 2015 - Feb 2016



Relish Kitchen

• Hong Kong

• Event Sales Manager

  • Sep 2013 - Mar 2015



St Pancras Renaissance Hotel London

• Special Events Sales Manager

  • Sep 2012 - Sep 2013

  I was responsible for all the social/special sales and event management of all the social/special events that take place at St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, a 5 * London Hotel. This account had an annual social catering goal of over £1million. I was responsible for all the social/special sales and event management of all the social/special events that take place at St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, a 5 * London Hotel. This account had an annual social catering goal of over £1million.



Quintessentially

• United Kingdom
• Travel Arrangements
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Event Manager

  • Jan 2012 - Sep 2012

  I was responsible for all events taking place in Quintessentially Events’ venue 29 Portland Place. I produced all events that we personally put on as well as managed the venue when hiring the space out to external clients. • Venue Management- I was the sole venue manager of 29 Portland Place, Quintessentially Events’ venue event space. It was my responsibility to set up all the processes and systems of this new event space from its conception. I oversaw the day to day running of the venue as well client management for the duration of any hire. I managed hires such as London Fashion Week catwalk shows, press days, product launches, high-net worth private celebrations, wedding receptions, photo shoots and conferences. I proactively looked after all of our clients and accounts. • Event Management – Event manager for all events that Quintessentially Events produced within the venue from conception to production. This has ranged from Tatler’s ‘Lesbian Ball’, promotional receptions for QE, private dinners/receptions/weddings and conferences. • Sales and Finance – Director of all sales for the venue, converting enquiries to business, negotiations and closing the deals. I also looked after the financial budgets of the venue/events in the venue. • Marketing – Taking my initiative to explore cost effective and successful marketing streams for the venue to promote business/sales and profile/awareness Show less



IBC - International Broadcasting Convention

• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations Executive

  • Aug 2010 - Jan 2012

  IBC is a leading international yearly event in Amsterdam that takes place over a week. It consists of an exhibition and conference. Within this event I was responsible for the following; • IBC Exhibitor Party for up to 2500 guests. Event Manager for the event from its conception, production and final success on the night. This is a particularly tricky event to organise as it has a very chaotic build time and de-rig that sits in the middle of a conference. • Business Lounge – a shell scheme area that is built for visitors. Responsible for the feature area’s promotion before the show, the build of the area and the running of the area onsite. • IBC Social Programme – a series of daily events held all over Amsterdam for our high net-worth client’s partners. Responsible for creating an interesting, varied schedule and to ensure it is effectively executed. • Press Management – First point of contact for the Media Affairs Consultant. Create the Press Area for up to 1000 press and news media visitors. Ensure smooth running of all press conferences during show. • Flights and Accommodation – Created a new hotel booking system and ran this system to book up to 300 people in Accommodation during the IBC show. Also arranged up to 200 flights for staff, contractors and the IBC board/council and committee. • Catering/Furniture – find/supply and order catering and furniture for numerous areas of the site (up to 55,000sqft) • Main support to Operations Project Managers and Operations Director Show less



Quintessentially Events

• London, United Kingdom

• Production Assistant

  • Jan 2010 - Jul 2010

  • Lead Production Assistant on a high profile (members of the royal family in attendance) charity auction in order to raise funds for Haiti. The fundraiser successfully raised just under £400k. • Production assistant on numerous large, high scale VIP events including the Elle Style Awards and the Elephant Family Fundraising Events. • Actively involved in the pitch process in order to acquire new business, from conception and production of pitch documents to presenting to the clients. • Took an active role in leading client meetings with regard to briefing client as to venue, list of attendees, production process/time management, design and budget. • RSVP management on afore mentioned large scale events. As well as being in charge of all monetary donations and ticket sales from guests. Show less