Kirsten Knight

Ongoing client communications including client meetings, project and account management - Budget preparation, control and maximising profitability - Briefing and internal communication with staff over client requests - Sourcing, inspecting, negotiating and contracting European venues - International travel management for attendees as well as provision of personal itineraries for Faculty/Speakers and VIPs - Suggesting and implementing alternative marketing strategies to promote conferences/events

- Ongoing client communications including client meetings, project and account management - Budget preparation, control and maximising profitability - Briefing and internal communication with staff over client requests - Sourcing, inspecting, negotiating and contracting European venues - International travel management for attendees as well as provision of personal itineraries for Faculty/Speakers and VIPs - Suggesting and implementing alternative marketing strategies to promote conferences/events

During my career break to raise two young children I worked as a freelance Project Manager for a variety of companies. - Creating and implementing Marketing Plans, Budgets and individual Marketing projects - Pre-, on-site and post-Event Project Management

- Full responsibility and accountability for establishing European subsidiaries and eventually launching the service across Europe - initially in Germany to be followed by France and other European countries - Definition and implementation of pan-European strategy - Responsibility for all direct reports and the management of the local offices - Member of the management team and as such involved in overall business plan/strategy - Definition of PR strategy and full responsibility for implementation

- Responsible for all marketing activities, direct reports and management of all aspects across Europe with a particular focus on the UK - Full marketing budget responsibility and accountability - Established all marketing functions for Kewill Electronic Commerce and set the marketing plan and budget - Supported Kewill’s Chief Marketing Officer (US based) in establishing a worldwide Corporate Marketing department - Successfully managed external design, advertising and PR agencies

- Responsible for all marketing activities, direct reports and management of all aspects across Europe, Middle East & Africa. - Full marketing budget responsibility and accountability for all countries - Member of the European Management team - Successfully launched new Products within all European countries - Led all marketing communications, to customer base and with the USA HQ - Established and implemented Corporate Press & product Public Relations - Input to and assistance with sales campaigns

The roles combined the European responsibility for all product management and product marketing tasks regarding the Interleaf product family with the responsibility of driving and managing all marketing communications efforts to customers and partners in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Eastern Europe.