THE PORTLAND TIMBERS AND SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC TALK SPORTS MARKETING
Find out what it takes to build a successful sports brand in the northwest from the pros. Meet the folks that make the Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers what they are today.
Meet us at ISITE Design on January 22nd at 7 PM.
SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDE:
Portland Timber's VP of Business and Marketing, Cory Dolich
Portland Timber's Marketing Director, Emily Lumanyan
Seattle Sounder & Seahawk's Creative Director, John Weaver
Wexley School for Girls' Business Development Manager, Ryen Shimizu
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PORTLAND TIMBERS
CORY DOLICH, PORTLAND TIMBER'S VP OF BUSINESS & MARKETING
2013 marks Cory’s sixth season with the Portland Timbers. In his current role as Vice President of Business Operations and Marketing, Cory manages the club’s day-to-day marketing, promotional and advertising platforms, including digital media administration, creative development, media buying, event production, Hispanic outreach and grass roots programming. Prior to joining the Portland Timbers, Cory worked for the Sacramento River Cats, the Triple-A affiliate of the Oakland A’s, as their Senior Director of Ticket Development and Retention. Cory graduated from Tufts University with a degree in Economics.
EMILY LUMANYAN, PORTLAND TIMBER'S MARKETING DIRECTOR
As the Portland Timbers’ Director of Marketing, Emily manages a variety of promotional, marketing, advertising and grass roots programming for the club. She is responsible for overseeing key strategic community initiatives, including the pub program, food cart alliance and the KeyBank Little Timbers fan club. Additionally, she plays a critical role in helping create and execute the organization’s Stand Together community marketing plan, social media strategy and advertising initiatives for the new professional Women’s soccer team, Portland Thorns FC. Emily graduated from American University with a BA in Public Communications and a minor in Graphic Design.
SEATTLE SOUNDERS
Bio Coming Soon.
WEXLEY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
Wexley School for Girls is a Seattle-based marketing and ad agency that calls themselves a '"fan factory," creating and sustaining a lifetime of loyalty and attention among clients and consumers. Partners and creative directors Ian Cohen and Cal McAllister founded Wexley School for Girls in 2003 and have built a roster of national brands through a an integrated approach that spans traditional, digital, guerrilla, experiential and interactive. Big accounts include DARIGOLD, Ford, HomeStreet Bank, Wilson Tennis, Taco del Mar, Oberto Beef Jerky, University of Washington, Copper Mountain, Brooks Running, and Microsoft.
RYEN SHIMIZU, ACCOUNT/BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
As the Account/Business Development Manager at Wexley, Ryen spends his days managing his accounts, responding to RFPs, and developing new business relationships. Joining the Wexley family in 2009, Ryen began as an Account Manager for TBS/TNT, Sounders FC, Nike and Microsoft. While working as an Account Manager, he developed a love for working on new business pitches and slowly transitioned to his new hybrid role of Account Management and Business Development. In addition to having the wordiest title in office, Ryen enjoys the outdoors, snowboarding in the winter, hiking in the summer, and attending Seahawks and Sounders games. Clients include Ford, Seahawks and Sounders FC.
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On Wenesday Jan. 23rd: The Business of Sports – Networking Night in Portland
Another group is doing an event on Sports Marketing the next day after our event. They asked us to crosspromote our event with theirs.
Come out and network with other sports business professionals that work or live in the Portland area. All backgrounds are welcome, from those just starting out to industry veterans. As always, there is no charge to attend this event. However, we are encouraging all attendees to make a donation to Team Rubicon. Team Rubicon unites the skills and experiences of military veterans with medical professionals to rapidly deploy emergency response teams into crisis situations. They were incredibly important in the response to Superstorm Sandy, and we have a goal to raise $1,000 to support their efforts. Use this link to make a donation online