Vivek Venugopal

Public Speaking coach and workshop facilitator; Experienced emcee and host for employee events, zoom meetings; Auctioneer for fundraising galas large and small. More information at www.vivekvenugopal.com

Freestyle+ is on a mission to connect teams through play and science backed mental fitness exercises. Our methodology is rooted in improv thinking and over the years we have worked with some of the biggest companies in the world to bring joy, inclusion and inspiration to teams.

Speechless' mission is to make public speaking more fun and less scary for everyone. Speechless offers interactive Learning Experiences that utilize exercises and techniques based on the concept of Improv Thinking and the philosophy that if you're a presenter, you're a performer. As Director of Revenue at Speechless I oversee our Sales and Marketing efforts and serve as a Specialist for our public speaking and communication solo and group learning experiences.

Work closely with leading brands to help solve digital marketing challenges using data, insights and marketing technology expertise.

As a Product Consultant I work closely with our Product, Marketing and Sales teams to bring the newest products and features of the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions portfolio to market. I work closely with the North America sales team to bring new concepts and pilots to our clients and generate feedback and best practices to share with the Product and Marketing teams.

As a Subscriptions Product Consultant my primary responsibilities involve evangelizing the value of nurturing in the B2B ecosystem and enabling the Bizo/LI sales team with the training and technical expertise around the Bizo Marketing Automation product. I work closely with our sales team and partners to provide clients and prospects with all the information they need to best understand our product and to provide information on the strategic value of adding display advertising to their nurture efforts.

As a Marketing Automation Specialist at Bizo my primary responsibilities involve enabling the Bizo sales team with the training and technical expertise around the Bizo for Marketing Automation product. I work closely with our sales team and partners to provide clients and prospects with all the information they need to best understand our product and to provide information on the strategic value of adding display advertising to their Marketing Automation system.

Bizo is how marketers reach and engage business professionals, wherever they travel online. Bizo's unique ability to precisely target more than 80% of the US business population gives marketers cost-effective access and insight into business professionals -- the most valuable online audience segment. More than 300 leading brands including AMEX, Monster, Jaguar, Microsoft, and FedEx count on the precise display ad and social media targeting, and deep onsite and campaign analytics that the Bizo Audience Marketing Platform provides to reach, educate and motivate their business audiences online. Bizo is privately held and based in San Francisco, California. For more information on Bizo, or for a free look at the Bizographic make-up of your website audience, visit www.bizo.com.

• Relationship manager for a $1.2 Million portfolio consisting of 150-200 major gift prospects • Create, develop and maintain relationships with high net-worth Room to Read West Coast donors • Manage communications on donor trips to Room to Read program countries • Manage systems and processes to ensure accurate tracking of donor relationships; SalesForce.com; Raiser’s Edge • Implement new processes to create efficiencies in relationship tracking and management • Manage and train non-staff personnel to aid West Coast IFF team

• Relationship manager for a portfolio consisting of 100-150 donor and prospects • Create, develop and maintain relationships with Room to Read West Coast donors • Manage communications on donor trips to Room to Read program countries • Manage and train non-staff personnel to aid West Coast IFF team

• Relationship manager for corporation and foundation giving. • Fundraiser for Palliative Care and Home Hospice programs. • Managed and implemented comprehensive ePhilanthropy program including bi-monthly e-newsletters, customized tribute and donation pages and online surveys. • Worked with communication team, physicians and corporations/foundations to submit proposals and stewardship reports in a timely manner. • Managed donor dedication, stewardship and recognition events, as well as oversee donor recognition installations.

• Led search and selection of ePhilanthropy vendor to help develop a sophisticated program that enables donors to give online and provides the foundation with tools to consistently communicate with and cultivate donors. • Created and developed programs to provide timely stewardship and giving options to supporters. • Created and maintain stewardship programs. • Benefactor Relations duties including donor dedications, donor recognition and acknowledgement letter program.

• Lead programmer and Project Manager for a number of projects for Transentric, subsidiary of Union Pacific Railroad. • Created and executed project plans and requirement documentation for several large projects for high-profile clients. • Required frequent one-on-one client interaction and software support. • Java and XML database programming.

Lead programmer and project manager for several software development projects. Duties include ability to rapidly master new software and technologies, such as JSP, Apache Tomcat, Struts, and FiveSight proprietary software; frequent customer interaction; Java programming and XML database programming.

• Served as web developer for complete site overhaul and reorganization of online documentation. • Created and presented new site architecture, implemented and tested new site. • Restructured online system for searching, creating, and printing documents and surveys pertaining to the Chicago Public Schools system.