Eric Marshall ’91 is the Vice President of Sales at the entertainment-giant Universal Orlando Resort. With years of experience in the entertainment industry, Eric shares his insight in to what it takes to succeed in the fast-paced world behind Universal. Eric has worked on several projects from the unveiling of the Blue Man Group to the opening of Harry Potter World.
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>> Eric Marshall and I'm the Vice-President of Park Sales at Universal Orlando Resort. So I have a variety of different departments so it changes quite a bit. Special events is part of what I do. Working with the major third-parties, like company like Expedia, timeshare companies, AAA. I'm involved in the [inaudible] show we have out there. A lot of the event management activity that we do including production and events and then a variety of other sort of sales responsibilities. Well, from an office standpoint, I'm usually in the office about eight and stay til five-thirty or six. But the nature of what I do, particularly events, I am at events on a lot of evenings. So today is a good example. This afternoon I'm going on a walk-thru with a corporate client that's looking into buying out the theme park. I've got a meeting with a third-party to discuss some pricing opportunities and then quite a bit of people management. I travel a little there. I've got a counterpart who does the international business. He travels all the time. I take maybe seven, eight trips a year. I don't work from home. Some of that is personality driven. I like the office environment. I like the dynamic with people and plus, you know, we're onsite at the resort and there's a big benefit to that.
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