A Rare Pleasure

[ Live Events & Music Festivals ]

Electric Daisy Carnival, Las Vegas

VP Global Marketing & Creative Services — festival brands at portfolio scale.

Insomniac Events, USA

Role
VP, Marketing & Media
Term
2.5 Years
Years
2021–2023

Leadership

  • Portfolio strategy
  • Budget ownership
  • Executive alignment
  • Ways of working

Brand

  • Brand direction
  • Creative production
  • Branded assets
  • Content strategy

Marketing

  • Marketing strategy
  • Festival campaigns
  • Media & performance
  • Ticketing conversion

Team

  • Team build
  • Hiring
  • Coaching
  • In-house media team

[ 01 // Selected Work ]

Festival swing ride illuminated above the crowd at night
Electric Daisy Carnival, Las Vegas.
Large-scale festival art installation lit at night
Installation art — where the spend moved, out of performance media.
Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas, 2022
Electric Daisy Carnival, Las Vegas — 2022. Photograph by Adi Nayev.

Forty+ festivals a year, and marketing and media teams rebuilt from 0–70 in two years.

Reigniting and rebuilding the engine that drives the Insomniac Events portfolio. Coming out of the pandemic, the mission was to rebuild a marketing infrastructure that would support a quick ramp-up of the business and exceed pre-pandemic festival and event volume.

Immediately, I reorganized the marketing team and began hiring, followed by onboarding, training, reestablishing procedures, and clear direction. In tandem, I shifted the marketing mix, expanded into more social media channels, and ensured one efficient paid acquisition engine, combined with category-leading creative, drove the entire portfolio.

On the media side, the work was similar — repositioning existing resources, rehiring, onboarding, and reestablishing best practices and ways of working. And, finally, I had to turn this new organization into a cohesive team that would work well together over time, producing great work that sells tickets and builds long-term IP value.

Escape Halloween 2025
Escape — 2025.
Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas, 2022
Electric Daisy Carnival, Las Vegas — 2022.
EDC Las Vegas 2023 — Aftermovie.
[ Image to come ]
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