Meet Michael Bleau of EventHub

Today we’d like to introduce you to Michael Bleau.

Michael, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
Thank you for having me. I got started in the events industry in college, working part-time doing brand activations at festivals and sporting events around the Washington DC area. After college, I spent about a year working for a predictive analytics company called Applied Predictive Technologies (APT), a Mastercard company. Following that, I pursued my passion for entertainment and spent some time at Lionsgate Entertainment. Naturally, I kept finding myself in brand marketing programs for live events and soon realized that was what I wanted to do long term.

Shortly after, I produced marketing tours for brands full-time and began co-producing tours (and charity festivals in between) with my now co-founder Jamie Nassar. Those experiences led us to the realization that event sponsorships could be sold more efficiently and managed more effectively. So, we built a sponsorship platform to help events sell more sponsorship revenue and reduce the cost of managing those sponsors. Then when Covid hit, we added a virtual expo for events to execute their sponsor deliverables within a virtual venue.

Has it been a smooth road?
When we first started EventHub, there were a lot of hard lessons learned, and some took longer than we would’ve liked. However, the most challenging was easily early this year when Covid-19 halted all events… packing it in was never really on the table for our brain trust, my co-founder and our CTO Jerry Harrison. We saw our customers struggling and had to quickly adapt to meet their needs. That’s when the idea to build out a virtual expo product was born. We needed a product that accommodated large, live consumer events to create virtual programming experiences while also delivering best-in-class virtual sponsorship fulfillment and one that would complement our sponsorship marketplace.

We’d love to hear more about EventHub.
EventHub is a sponsorship platform helping events source, sign, and manage sponsor revenue and now host virtual programming for their events, with integrated virtual sponsorship deliverables. We’ve grown to serve more than 600 large annual events, including fantastic customers in LA, like the Los Angeles Marathon and California Wine Festival. We’re most proud of our industry expertise with consumer events, both from a sponsorship and events perspective. This sets EventHub apart from other competitors in the space. We truly understand the people who make up the events industry and are constantly finding solutions that will enhance the events experience. A customer mentioned just the other day and this happens all the time that they vetted a ton of other event platforms but that our platform is the only one that “checks all the boxes” for them. We pride ourselves in being a company comprised of event industry experts and solving problems we encountered ourselves so that our customers don’t have to.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://eventhub.net/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eventhubofficial/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eventhuboff
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/EventHubOff

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