Grace Boyle

Current

• Business Development at Lijit

Past

• Event Hostess & Coordinator at ECHO at the Leahy Center
• Intern at Marketing Partners, Inc.
• Public Relations Intern at Kelliher Samets Volk

• Assistant to Director of Corporate Consciousness and Director of Marketing at Seventh Generation

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Education

• Champlain College
• Scuola Lorenzo de' Medici

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Grace Boyle’s Summary

Grace currently does Business Development for Lijit Networks, Inc. a tech startup that provides a customized search tool, stats and monetization for bloggers and online publishers. She helps to acquire new, strategic publishers and is an account manager for current Lijit publishers.

With a degree in public relations she has a background in marketing, communication, social media and event coordination. The intersection of environment and technology best describe her professional background and interest.

Grace also owns and writes her own blog (http://smallhandsbigideas.com/) where she discusses life as woman in a tech startup, digital media and daily inspirations. She frequently writes guests posts for other publications across the web.

Grace Boyle’s Specialties:

Event Coordination, Marketing, Public Relations, Blogging, Blogger outreach, New media, Writing/Editing, Account Management, Social Media, Business development

Grace Boyle’s Experience

• Business Development

  Lijit

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  Forging new business relationships with publishers and bloggers for Lijit, a start-up in Boulder, Colorado based around search powered tools for bloggers that increase page views and reader engagement, while optimizing search ad revenue.

• Event Hostess & Coordinator

  ECHO at the Leahy Center

  (Events Services industry)

  June 2006 — May 2008 (2 years )

  -Event coordination and planning
  -On site management for staff, clients, and vendors
  -Traveled to industry tradeshows and booked sales
  -Helped to hire event staff and interns
  -Implemented and booked client and vendor site visits
  -Marketed, researched, and designed quarterly, "Lake Nights at ECHO"
  
  Events ranged from business meetings, weddings & rehearsal dinners, charity fundraisers, and political functions for up to 700 people.

• Intern

  Marketing Partners, Inc.

  (Public Relations and Communications industry)

  September 2007 — December 2007 (4 months)

  Served as sole intern at Marketing Partners, a mission-driven, research-based and social marketing firm.

• Public Relations Intern

  Kelliher Samets Volk

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)

• Assistant to Director of Corporate Consciousness and Director of Marketing

  Seventh Generation

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

  December 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 1 month)

  Seventh Generation is the nation's leading brand of environmentally friendly and non-toxic household and personal care products.

Grace Boyle’s Education

• Champlain College

  B.S. , Public Relations , 2004 — 2008

  Graduated with highest honor, Summa Cum Laude. 3.8 GPA. Deans List.

  Activities and Societies:

  Student Activity Planner, Peer Mentor First Year Seminar, Orientation Leader, Research team for new CORE education, Regional Student Ambassador, Ski and Snowboard Club

• Scuola Lorenzo de' Medici

  Public Relations , International media ethics, Art , 2007 — 2007

  Study abroad program for one semester.

Additional Information

Grace Boyle’s Interests:

event coordination, networking, technology, start-ups, community, environmentalism, blogging, the online social networking revolution, twitter, Italy, traveling, world cultures, snowboarding, photography.

Grace Boyle’s Groups:

•    Personal Branding Network
•    Champlain College
•    Brazen Careerist
•    Lijit
•    Boulder Denver New Tech Meetup
•    Italian American Professionals

Grace Boyle’s Honors:

Deans list, 2004-2008
Team Excellence for Outstanding Small Group Communications, 2007
Outstanding Senior Public Relations Award, 2008
1st Place, International Travel Photo Award, 2008
President's Club, 2008

Grace Boyle’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch