Luke Roberts

Background

About Luke Roberts

Highly organised major events professional with two decades of international experience on a vast range of high-profile projects including sporting events, ceremonies, major concerts, music festivals, large scale public events, touring exhibitions, experiential activations and live music programming & presentation. Core strengths: strategic planning, versatile and agile decision making with a proven record of delivering complex projects with multiple initiatives to deadline. Thrives in the international cross-cultural environment, builds trust quickly and drives the collaborative processes that enables major projects to deliver memorable experiences. • Extensive experience in the delivery of major project and programming plans, working to key milestones across production, technical and operations. This includes planning, scheduling and reporting at all project phases – pre-production, construction, live and post-event. • Strategic operational planning expertise in logistics, resource optimisation, supplier management, transport planning and staffing. • Proficient in budget management and monitoring, including costing estimations for RFP responses, and qualitative and quantitative analysis of BOQ deliverables. • Highly experienced in design, planning and installation of overlay structures, temporary installations and fabricated elements for events. • Strong knowledge of AVL technical system integration into live event environments with a thorough understanding of staging, rigging, installation and power management across indoor and outdoor venues. • Detailed understanding of stadium and venue design and technical capability – and the engineering consultation required for major technical installations. • Intuitive site manager able to identify, adapt to and resolve operational pinch points, risks and issues to align production and overlay deliverables. • Adept in client and stakeholder management including government authorities, venues, functional areas, contractors and local communities. Finessed consultation, negotiation and conflict resolution skills. • Experienced at generating work permits and implementing HSE policies, whilst adapting to local legislation. • Ability to identify, track and assess potential risks or hazards, develop risk mitigation strategies and implement measures to minimise risks during major events. • Significant alignment experience working with local organising committees delivering projects for governing sporting bodies including FIFA, Formula 1, FIBA and Commonwealth Games Federation for international events.