Isabel Draves

Summary

I am a well-rounded, entrepreneurial leader with deep experience getting projects off the ground, advising and running early stage start ups, and handling partnership development, marketing, and operations for complex projects. I have high standards and a proven track record of accomplishing amazing results on time with a small budget. I inspire dedication in my teams, and actively engage in mentoring, research, writing, and presentation development. I have extensive experience networking and planning groundbreaking content and logistics for salons, speaker series, and conferences. I am seeking a full time position either remote or in NYC, joining a small team of passionate people working on making something new that offers a change for the better. I am currently an advisor to Axle.ai, a video search media asset management company. I have advised over 30 different small companies as well as a handful of large ones, started multiple organizations, and built seminal communities to promote the intersection of creativity and technology. I founded and produced NYC's Creative Tech Week from 2015 until its acquisition in 2020. I led all aspects of this annual 11-day tech festival with multiple day-long conferences and immersive exhibitions, 50-200 partner events per year, hundreds of speakers, and thousands of attendees. For several years, I also managed the Creative Tech Innovation Council, a group of thought leaders from 20 top-tier companies and institutions researching emerging technologies. Competencies: Team and project management, marketing, partnerships, event programming, evangelism, experiential marketing, strategy, networking, building initiatives from the ground up, startups, recruiting, go to market and launch, inspiring people, producing large projects, research, writing and presenting, financial and data analysis. Specialties/Interests: Board roles, immersive technology, tech art, crowdsourcing and open source software, security and privacy, identity management, AI, conferences, turning straw into gold, singing jazz.