A hardworking individual looking to broaden my skills in sales and customer prospecting as well as expanding my reach with branding initiatives and networking. I have a strong passion for the business world and am excited to see where my career with Randstad takes me.

An outgoing and charismatic marketing professional who can blog, hashtag, tweet, pin, FB, gram, link and tube with the best of them.

Emily Best is the founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, a platform that makes entertainment more diverse, inclusive, connected and essential. Seed&Spark’s platform and national education program have helped thousands of bold storytellers raise millions to bring to life entirely new stories, and Seed&Spark delivers those stories into workplaces, replacing boring corporate training videos with cinematic learning experiences that drive innovation and inclusion. Emily arrived in the film business taking a circuitous route through restaurants, vision and values strategy, and the theater. After graduating Haverford College with a degree in Anthropology, Emily studied to be a jazz singer in Barcelona before being tapped to run restaurants in California. As the GM of Bistro 33 in Davis, CA, Emily increased the profit margin 2x in the $5M business, managed nearly 80 employees and implemented what would become a company-wide training program. She worked as a contractor for a fiscal responsibility policy non-profit in Sacramento before moving to NYC to co-found Best Partners, a boutique vision and values scenarios-to-strategy company. With Best Partners, Emily participated in strategy efforts for some of the world's leading financial institutions including Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank, as well as organizations such as PREA and the Tallberg Forum. All the while she continued to produce and act in theater. In 2011, Emily produced her first feature film Like the Water (co-written by and starring Caitlin FitzGerald). The challenges and triumphs of that experience led her to found Seed&Spark. An advocate for diversity and inclusion in the entertainment industry, Best regularly speaks at conferences and events about leveraging entertainment to build equity and sustainability for everyone. Best was named a 2013 Indiewire Influencer, a 2014 New York Business Journal “Woman of Influence”, a 2015 Upstart 100 entrepreneur (Business Journals), received the Ivy Film Innovator Award in 2015 and in 2016, graduated from Techstars Boston, and is now a mentor for Techstars, PlugIn South LA, Start with 8 Hollywood, Square One Startup School. She serves on the Advisory Board for Aleria Tech and Endcrawl. Best has raised millions of dollars in traditional funding, equity crowdfunding, and rewards-based crowdfunding and has personally participated in more than 300 crowdfunding campaigns.

I am passionate about helping clients achieve their business goals and optimize their marketing campaigns. As a Senior Customer Success Manager at Dotdigital, I work with a range of clients across industries and regions, enabling them to make the most of dotdigital's Engagement Cloud platform. In my current role, I am responsible for the retention of revenue and upsell opportunities, as well as customer engagement in the form of user groups, case studies, and webinars. I also regularly contribute to Dotdigital's library of learning resources for customers, including blog articles and webinars on marketing automation strategies. I am proud to have been awarded "Rookie of the Year" at July 2020 Global Employee of the Year Awards

I am a passionate and skilled marketer with experience in brand management, analytics, leading paid/earned/owned/digital media, project management, and customer service. Proven success in launching innovative marketing strategies, traffic-driving promotions, and high-profile campaigns that grow revenue, establish brand awareness, and build consumer loyalty. Knowledgeable and thorough Marketing Director with superior attention to detail. Having extensive marketing and branding experience—both on the agency and client-side—has taught me persistence and self-discipline like a risk-taking entrepreneur and process-driving leadership like a top-level executive. Confident leader and enthusiastic communicator. My drive and ability to self-motivate keeps me comfortable in a fast-paced environment.