Ursula Pala
Head Communications & Director of Communications for Special Projetcs ( Most Important #MFR2022) at Maker Faire Rome - The European Edition- Claim this Profile
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English Professional working proficiency
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Sherry Huss
It is with great pleasure that I recommend Ursula Pala. I have worked with Ursula for over 10 years on Maker Faire Rome as the lead in marketing, communications, and PR and as a senior member of the leadership and strategy team assigned to MFR. Ursula is smart, market savvy and passionate about all that she takes on and is the ultimate experienced professional. She made it a priority from the very beginning to understand the product, the market and the opportunity and came up with the most creative and innovative ways to market the Maker Faire brand in Italy (and all of Europe). Events are a specialty of Ursula's (from launch to all stages of growth), and the pandemic years, while challenging for most played to Ursula's strength of adapting and delivering. She and her team embraced the challenge of transitioning to online and she worked to deliver innovative ways to keep growing the brand and keeping all members of the community connected and thriving (makers, attendees, sponsors, the media, and partners). I am a huge supporter of Ursula and appreciate that she understands the power of relationships. I am always here for her, and I know that she feels the same way about me and my ventures. Brava Ursula! You are an inspiration to all and loved by makers (and more) from around the world!
Pietro Abate
I always found Ursula to be consistently pleasant, tackling all the actions with dedication and strong focus on targets. She is a take-charge person who is able to develop projects and ideas, always communicating the benefits to the partners, never forgetting the final goal whatever task she have to complete. She is one of the most committed and hard worker Corporate Communication Manager I've ever met. Excellent in knowledge of marketing and communication tools with great analytical skills and strategic thinking as well as sales minded. Her greatest ability is reach the given goals by saving budgets. She got that "can-do- attitude" that allows innovation and creative solutions: an highly effective achiever. I especially appreciate her ability to inspire and motivate people working with her and she is a very nice person to work with, with a sense of humour and self irony that improve working climate.
Sherry Huss
It is with great pleasure that I recommend Ursula Pala. I have worked with Ursula for over 10 years on Maker Faire Rome as the lead in marketing, communications, and PR and as a senior member of the leadership and strategy team assigned to MFR. Ursula is smart, market savvy and passionate about all that she takes on and is the ultimate experienced professional. She made it a priority from the very beginning to understand the product, the market and the opportunity and came up with the most creative and innovative ways to market the Maker Faire brand in Italy (and all of Europe). Events are a specialty of Ursula's (from launch to all stages of growth), and the pandemic years, while challenging for most played to Ursula's strength of adapting and delivering. She and her team embraced the challenge of transitioning to online and she worked to deliver innovative ways to keep growing the brand and keeping all members of the community connected and thriving (makers, attendees, sponsors, the media, and partners). I am a huge supporter of Ursula and appreciate that she understands the power of relationships. I am always here for her, and I know that she feels the same way about me and my ventures. Brava Ursula! You are an inspiration to all and loved by makers (and more) from around the world!
Pietro Abate
I always found Ursula to be consistently pleasant, tackling all the actions with dedication and strong focus on targets. She is a take-charge person who is able to develop projects and ideas, always communicating the benefits to the partners, never forgetting the final goal whatever task she have to complete. She is one of the most committed and hard worker Corporate Communication Manager I've ever met. Excellent in knowledge of marketing and communication tools with great analytical skills and strategic thinking as well as sales minded. Her greatest ability is reach the given goals by saving budgets. She got that "can-do- attitude" that allows innovation and creative solutions: an highly effective achiever. I especially appreciate her ability to inspire and motivate people working with her and she is a very nice person to work with, with a sense of humour and self irony that improve working climate.
Sherry Huss
It is with great pleasure that I recommend Ursula Pala. I have worked with Ursula for over 10 years on Maker Faire Rome as the lead in marketing, communications, and PR and as a senior member of the leadership and strategy team assigned to MFR. Ursula is smart, market savvy and passionate about all that she takes on and is the ultimate experienced professional. She made it a priority from the very beginning to understand the product, the market and the opportunity and came up with the most creative and innovative ways to market the Maker Faire brand in Italy (and all of Europe). Events are a specialty of Ursula's (from launch to all stages of growth), and the pandemic years, while challenging for most played to Ursula's strength of adapting and delivering. She and her team embraced the challenge of transitioning to online and she worked to deliver innovative ways to keep growing the brand and keeping all members of the community connected and thriving (makers, attendees, sponsors, the media, and partners). I am a huge supporter of Ursula and appreciate that she understands the power of relationships. I am always here for her, and I know that she feels the same way about me and my ventures. Brava Ursula! You are an inspiration to all and loved by makers (and more) from around the world!
Pietro Abate
I always found Ursula to be consistently pleasant, tackling all the actions with dedication and strong focus on targets. She is a take-charge person who is able to develop projects and ideas, always communicating the benefits to the partners, never forgetting the final goal whatever task she have to complete. She is one of the most committed and hard worker Corporate Communication Manager I've ever met. Excellent in knowledge of marketing and communication tools with great analytical skills and strategic thinking as well as sales minded. Her greatest ability is reach the given goals by saving budgets. She got that "can-do- attitude" that allows innovation and creative solutions: an highly effective achiever. I especially appreciate her ability to inspire and motivate people working with her and she is a very nice person to work with, with a sense of humour and self irony that improve working climate.
Sherry Huss
It is with great pleasure that I recommend Ursula Pala. I have worked with Ursula for over 10 years on Maker Faire Rome as the lead in marketing, communications, and PR and as a senior member of the leadership and strategy team assigned to MFR. Ursula is smart, market savvy and passionate about all that she takes on and is the ultimate experienced professional. She made it a priority from the very beginning to understand the product, the market and the opportunity and came up with the most creative and innovative ways to market the Maker Faire brand in Italy (and all of Europe). Events are a specialty of Ursula's (from launch to all stages of growth), and the pandemic years, while challenging for most played to Ursula's strength of adapting and delivering. She and her team embraced the challenge of transitioning to online and she worked to deliver innovative ways to keep growing the brand and keeping all members of the community connected and thriving (makers, attendees, sponsors, the media, and partners). I am a huge supporter of Ursula and appreciate that she understands the power of relationships. I am always here for her, and I know that she feels the same way about me and my ventures. Brava Ursula! You are an inspiration to all and loved by makers (and more) from around the world!
Pietro Abate
I always found Ursula to be consistently pleasant, tackling all the actions with dedication and strong focus on targets. She is a take-charge person who is able to develop projects and ideas, always communicating the benefits to the partners, never forgetting the final goal whatever task she have to complete. She is one of the most committed and hard worker Corporate Communication Manager I've ever met. Excellent in knowledge of marketing and communication tools with great analytical skills and strategic thinking as well as sales minded. Her greatest ability is reach the given goals by saving budgets. She got that "can-do- attitude" that allows innovation and creative solutions: an highly effective achiever. I especially appreciate her ability to inspire and motivate people working with her and she is a very nice person to work with, with a sense of humour and self irony that improve working climate.
Credentials
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Journalist
Ordine Nazionale Dei GiornalistiSep, 2000- Nov, 2024 -
English for Business and Entrepreneurship
University of PennsylvaniaFeb, 2017- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Maker Faire Rome - The European Edition
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Italy
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Events Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head Communications & Director of Communications for Special Projetcs ( Most Important #MFR2022)
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Dec 2004 - Present
In this role, she is responsible for overseeing the event's communication and media strategies, including public relations, marketing, and outreach efforts. She works to ensure that the event's message and mission are effectively communicated to the public, media, and other stakeholders. KEY SKILLS: Strategic Communications; Planning ATL & BTL Campaigns; Project Management; Branding and Visual Identity; Disruptive and lateral thinking ; Pre event story telling; Web Analytics & Data Analysis; Content Marketing: business and consumer; Networking; Media Relations; Brands, Products and Events Communication. MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS FOR MAKER FAIRE ROME- THE EU EDITION : Visitors as an outcome of the Communications Strategy: for the first edition in 2013 20.000 people were expected eventually they were 36.000 . For The 2nd European Edition October 2014 90.000; over 100k in 2015 and over 110K in 2016, 2017,2018 and 2019. Media Spending Value produced by publicity went up from £900 thousand euros to £13 million from 2013 to 2022 for MFR only. RESPONSIBILITIES: • Building from scratch new communication strategies . • Overseeing the Branding and Visual Identity • Developing the Brand Identity and Leading the Communications Strategy (from ADV to off and on line to Media Buying and media relation) for Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition (this is the Main Special project she runs) Show less
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Red Bull
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Austria
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Food and Beverage Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Head of Communications and Press Office
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Sep 2000 - Nov 2004
B2C, Social Media, Planning and KPI Setting, Agency and Internal Team Management; Media Relations, Short Film Production, Publicity; ACHIEVEMENTS: Successfully Built from scratch a communication strategy to conquer the Italian Market in a 3-years program. Media Spending Value produced by Media Relations went up from 800K euro to 41 million (when she left the Company for the next challenge) by using a budget of 250K euro per year. Successfully managing the execution of internally developed marketing strategies designed by her for the international Red Bull Projects (such as,among others: Soap Box2002; Red Bull Music Academy; Red Bull X Fighter.). Show less
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RDS - Radio Dimensione Suono
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Italy
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Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
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100 - 200 Employee
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Head of Press Office & Communications
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Nov 1993 - Aug 2000
In charge of_ B2C Communications, Media Relations and Publicity, Content Marketing, Strategy & Planning, KPI Setting, • research, create and implement the yearly marketing and communications plan within a 5 years’ strategy. • Media relations Corporate/ Programs/ Speakers/ Great Events (such as Pavarotti & Friends, Vota la Voce; Sanremo; Un disco per l’Estate, Festival di Recanati, Vasco Rossi Tours and many more) ACHIEVEMENTS: • constant increase the radio station’s press coverage. She helped RDS to become the First Italian Private Radio for 5 years in a row (Source: Media Index evaluation for years 1995/2000) • Implementation of Media Relations National and International (e.g. Billboard, Variety). Show less
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Education
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Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli
Master's Degree, Political Sciences + Marketing elective classes -
University of Pennsylvania
Business, https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/UG83CYN2T9AT -
University of East Anglia
Certificate, The secret power of brands.’ -
University of Reading
Certificate, A beginners’ guide to writing in English for university study -
M.A.G.I.C.A. http://www.mediamaster.org/index.html
Master's degree, Management Audiovisual Projects -
Nazareno
High School, Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics -
Google Garage
On line MarKeting