Mark Heaps

Background

About Mark Heaps

Award winning event specialist with over 20 years of experience within the Live Event Industry. Unparalleled wealth of experience, across a wide variety of sectors. Highly collaborative, entrepreneurial and innovative production professional with wide-ranging knowledge in planning and executing high-impact events and experiences. Proven success in management roles in, corporate events, experiential marketing, VIP hospitality and international government events; as well as music tours, exhibitions and one-off stadium & arena shows. Working for agencies, production companies and direct to end clients; leveraging this diversity to be able to view complex situations from multiple angles. History as a hands-on event technician forms a strong foundation and an understanding of the event industry from bottom to top. Demonstrated experience and success in working on pitch processes. Often leading the production response; designing systems and solutions that are innovative as well as cost effective. Working in unison with creative team and account management to ensure needs are might whilst not straying from the event vision. Utilising excellent vendor relationships to secure favourable pricing and to introduce new technologies where appropriate. Strong communicator with extensive vendor management, senior stakeholder management, negotiation, team mobilisation, and financial management skills. Builds rapport quickly ensuring cross party buy in to an event vision, often in a fast moving and rapidly developing environment. Regularly building and managing teams of not only direct reports but also vendors and peers. Confident in providing feedback and direction as well as undertaking periodic performance reviews. Working on a global stage with proven success delivering events on six continents. High-profile event experience includes G7 Leaders Conference, COP26, Mobile World Congress, Cannes Lions, Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Glastonbury Festival and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (postponed). Strong record of performance for disruptive industry leaders including Google, Facebook, Team GB, Red Bull, Shell, The UK Government and Visa. Regularly taking control of the creative process, filtering ideas and refining them to allow them to be recognised within the unique constraints of an event, be they physical, financial or schedule; at all times being respectful of the creative intent. Demonstrates an ability to source, assess, onboard and manage new suppliers, ensuring compliance with expected standards.