Experience

Nurture Life

• United States
• Food & Beverages
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Director of Marketing

  • Mar 2023 - Present

  Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Director of Marketing

  • Jul 2015 - Mar 2023

  Greater Chicago Area



Encyclopaedia Britannica

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Marketing Specialist

  • Nov 2014 - Jul 2015

  Greater Chicago Area Reported to the Senior VP and was responsible for planning, directing and coordinating multiple marketing efforts and events to support Britannica products in all institutional markets, including K-12 schools, colleges and public libraries.



Reinventing Events

• United States
• Events Services

• Co-Founder and COO

  • Jan 2012 - Oct 2014

  Built and scaled an event production company, executing large-scale B2B events for high-profile clients including Gannett, New Relic, Twilio, and TaskRabbit.



Bolt Peters

• Freelance Events and Marketing Coordinator

  • Sep 2011 - Nov 2011

  San Francisco Bay Area Originally contracted to manage and facilitate Bolt | Peters and Blurb's first 1197, a one-day conference celebrating mobile photography and iPhoneography, also actively approached new clients and marketed their webtool, Ethnio. Assisted with promotion, sales, project and community management, communication and the successful execution of the fifth User Research Friday event!



Mashable

• United States
• Online Media
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Events Coordinator

  • Dec 2010 - Aug 2011

  San Francisco Bay Area Worked directly with the events director, providing pre-event, on-site, and post-event assistance for events produced by Mashable (including the Social Good Summit in partnership with 92nd Street Y and UN Foundation, Mashable Awards Gala in partnership with Cirque du Soleil, 2-day Mashable House at SXSWi, and Mashable Connect, a multi-day conference hosted at Walt Disney World).



BOOM! Studios

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Events and Community Manager

  • Aug 2009 - Dec 2010

  Los Angeles, CA Managed 14 conventions during a calendar year including the success of Comic-Con International: San Diego.



Chigbu & Co.,LLP

• United States
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Development Manager

  • May 2009 - Aug 2009

  San Francisco Bay Area Created new business development opportunities, which includes a number of techniques designed to grow an economic enterprise. Such techniques include assessments of marketing opportunities and target markets, intelligence gathering on customers and competitors, generating leads for possible sales, follow-up sales activity, formal proposal writing and business model design.

• Office Manager / EA to Managing Partner

  • Aug 2008 - May 2009

  San Francisco Bay Area Managed international tax law firm and assisted managing partner. Duties included organizing confidential business documents, creating presentations, managing Quickbooks and client billing, arranging travel & hotel reservations, scheduling and attending meetings with high-profile clients and other administrative duties to manage business operations.



HSBC

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Account Executive

  • Jun 2007 - Jan 2008

  San Francisco Bay Area During poor market conditions and the downfall of sub-prime lending, contributed to a record breaking Branch gain of 1.3 million in mortgage sales within the first 3 months of new position.

• Acquisition Specialist

  • Jan 2007 - Jun 2007

  Elmhurst, Illinois Developed the Acquisitions Support Department, assisting upper management in planning of internal communication strategies. Maintained department records and filing system, developed reports and presentations and completed competitive research and analysis.

• Escrow Admin Specialist

  • Jul 2005 - Jan 2007

  San Francisco Bay Area Handled highly sensitive Hurricane Katrina victims and aided in their recovery by working with their insurance companies and contractors to ensure repairing of property and to protect HSBC’s security; continued to act as central point of contact for future emergencies.

• Foreclosure Support Specialist

  • Jul 2003 - Jul 2005

  Elmhurst, Illinois Promoted to team leader within the first 6 months of hire. Main responsibilities were foreclosure and bankruptcy data entry and filing, compiling monthly calendars and work schedules and managing team.