Timothy Bennett

Kellen is a global professional services firm. Clients and the positions held with each assigned client are listed below:

Stepped in to oversee day-to-day operations of 800 member professional society including pivot of their 5-day in person event conference to a virtual platform exceeding goals for number of attendees and revenue

• Stewarded strategic plans, oversight of annual conferences, educational programs, financials, member recruitment and retention, publications programs, and operations
• Developed of all internal/external collateral; awards programs; manage trade show presence; association publications programs, corporate membership recruitment and retention
• Managed partner and vendor agreements, key relationships with industry executives, government, media
• Association governance

• Stewarded strategic plans, oversaw of annual conferences, educational programs, financials, member recruitment and retention, publications programs, and operations
• Developed of all internal/external collateral; corporate membership recruitment and retention
• Managed of partner and vendor agreements, key relationships with industry executives, government, media
• Association governance
• Worked closely with organizational leadership and board of directors to strategically affect operational direction.

• Stewarded strategic plans, oversight of annual conferences, quarterly events, educational programs, financials management, member recruitment and retention, publications programs including redesign of members' journal, and managed day-to-day operations
• Marketing and communications: development of all internal/external collateral; awards programs; manage trade show presence; association publications programs, corporate membership recruitment and retention
• Management of partner and vendor agreements, key relationships with industry executives, government, media
• Prepared a variety of different written communications, reports and documents to ensure smooth operations.

• Managed day-today operations of association including back office staff supervision, corporate membership development, publication sales, and event programing
• Planned, promoted, and executed 3-4 industry events for corporate members
• Oversaw vendor licensing of ANSI standard publications that increased association nondues revenue to over 500K
• Tracked government and industry affairs across various sectors
• Developed internal and external print and Web collateral; direct product awards programs; manage trade show presence; corporate membership recruitment and retention
• Managed partner and vendor agreements
• Managed key relationships with industry executives, government, media
• Administered budget and tracked expenses
• Launched searchable online directory of industry products for decision makers to specify purchases for large commercial projects

• Developed and negotiated academic consortia and corporate licensing for computing and IT library (annual revenue increased from $1M to $8M over 5-year period)
• Primary customer-facing contact responsible for explaining complex product offerings and negotiating pricing and terms
• Account management including ongoing client service, license re-negotiations
• Facilitated new online usage data program; tech support and customer trials and service; ongoing content updates to clients
• Coordinated trade show and industry events presence iNEXTV.com

• Telesales including prospecting and cultivating corporate and agency accounts
• Created PowerPoint and phone sales proposals
• Introducing opportunities and pricing structure for advertising within original online video content

• Negotiated software license agreements with academic and corporate libraries
• Created maintained prospect and client database
• Wrote and edited copy for direct mail, e-commerce, brochures, packaging, and point of purchase materials
• Sales and service of academic software to adopters, customers, distributors, and retail vendors
• Managed telesales campaigns
• Organized trade shows, travel, sales meetings