NASHVILLE (CelebrityAccess)—Outback Presents is thrilled to announce Christine Melko Ross’s appointment as the corporate’s new Senior Vice President (SVP)of World Operations.
Based mostly in Montreal, Canada, Melko Ross will spearhead Outback Presents’ Canadian operations and drive the corporate’s worldwide enterprise growth and enlargement technique. Her in depth expertise and strategic imaginative and prescient will likely be instrumental as Outback Presents continues to develop its international footprint.
“Everybody at Outback Presents is worked up to have Christine be part of the group,” says Outback Presents Co-CEO Michael Smardak. “Her in depth achievements and expertise in comedy will likely be invaluable to our international progress. We’re very proud to have her be part of us.”
“I’m very excited to work with Mike Smardak, Brian Dorfman and all the group at Outback,” provides Melko Ross. “They’ve constructed an incredible roster of profitable touring expertise and have executed a superb job at establishing themselves as the biggest unbiased promoter in North America. Collectively, we’ll attempt to raise Outback to the worldwide stage. We cherish related values in making certain a terrific viewers and artist expertise, and I can’t wait to get began!”
Melko Ross has over 35 years of expertise producing and selling hundreds of comedy and music exhibits. For the previous 23 years, she has been an integral a part of the Simply For Laughs Group, the place she has worn many hats and left an indelible mark on the comedy panorama.
At Simply For Laughs, Melko Ross was instrumental in working the famend Montreal Competition, launching the Toronto Competition and creating the corporate’s extremely profitable Touring division. She’s labored with comedy giants like Jerry Seinfeld, Trevor Noah, Tom Segura, Hannah Gadsby, Invoice Burr, Iliza Shlesinger, Sebastian Maniscalco, Rick Mercer, Jimmy Carr, John Cleese and Eric Idle, in addition to distinctive occasions corresponding to “The Simpsons: Within the Flesh” (starring Matt Groening and the Simpsons forged) and “Ryan Reynolds, Most Effort, A Humorous Dialog.”
Melko Ross’s affect extends past North America. She has produced and developed worldwide festivals in Sydney, Bermuda, Mexico, London, Austin, and Chicago, usually collaborating with main trade gamers.
Earlier than becoming a member of Simply For Laughs, Melko Ross honed her expertise because the lead expertise purchaser for Donald Okay. Donald/Common Concert events/Home of Blues Concert events, reserving quite a few music exhibits and managing excursions for high-profile artists like The Backstreet Boys and Leonard Cohen.
A local of Lansing, Illinois, and a graduate of Illinois Wesleyan College, Melko Ross started her profession with Paulette Wolf Occasions & Leisure in Chicago. Her various expertise, together with managing company hospitality for prestigious occasions just like the Kentucky Derby, laid the inspiration for her exceptional profession in leisure.