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Rich Thompson

Events DirectorLondon, United Kingdom
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Rich Thompson
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Rich Thompson

Events DirectorLondon, United Kingdom
Professions
  • Events Director
  • Producer
LevelSenior
AvailabilityFreelance
About me
GLOBAL EVENTS B2B and B2C BRAND ACTIVATIONS CONFERENCES FESTIVALS PRIVATE EVENTS An experienced and creative major event producer, worked with major festivals such as Glastonbury, SxSW, CogX, Womad, Telluride Film Festival, Cannes Lions for clients such as The Guardian, Financial Times, Galaxy/Mars, Readly, and Ovo energy.
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Projects
  • Leadership for a better decade (Client: Be the Business Nov 19)
    Leadership for a better decade (Client: Be the Business Nov 19)Event director for a high-end leadership summit for 100+ chairman and C-Suite leaders of UK Industry, including Rolls Royce, John Lewis Partnership, Lloyds Banking Group, McKinsey & Co, Tesco, Cisco, E&Y, Bank of England and others. My role was to design and programme content, create video promoting the clients work, liaise with key speakers, manage production and internal teams such as marketing a the client, Be the Business. The result was a major success, with multiple new corporate clien
Work history
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    Founder & Managing DIrectorOut of the Park Limited
    London, United KingdomFreelance
    I have designed and executed bespoke brand activations and event partnerships for many notable clients including The Guardian, The Financial Times, The i newspaper, Soho House Group, Ovo Energy, Mars Galaxy and Hearst Magazines, Glastonbury Festival, Goodwood Festival of Speed, Blue Dot Festival and CogX Emerging Tech and Artificial Intelligence Festival. I help my clients to save on marketing budget spend by forging partnerships and contra based relationships between brands, unlocking large audiences that compliment each other, and have created an in-house algorithm that allows different brands and events to measure their compatibility in a consistent way.
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    Head of Brand Partnerships & EventsThe Guardian
     - London, United KingdomFull Time
    A led a team of 18 events professionals and helped them deliver B2B and B2C events all over the world.
Skills
  • Event Management
  • Project Direction
  • Brand Activation
  • Experiential Activations
  • Conference Planning
  • Festival Management
  • Festival Production
  • Leadership
  • Team Collaboration
  • Strategy Development
Education
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    BSc (Hons) BiochemistryUniversity of Birmingham
     - Birmingham, United Kingdom
    It's come i handy in pub quizzes.... apart from that....