Tomas Ruzbacky Events Professional/Specialist

Biography

Tomas Ruzbacky, a native of Slovakia, highlights a versa-tile resume making him a well-rounded professional, a highly recommended events and sales specialist, and a world traveller effectively communicating and integrating with different nationalities, be it with colleagues, guests, clients, agencies, marketers, internationally renowned so-cialites, cooperate business owners, marketing and rev-enue professionals, auctioneers, artists, jewelers and indus-try guru’s.

He has honed his skills and gained experience through the years as a leader and in managerial positions, as an assistant to capable mentors and managers and as well as a learner, rendering impeccable service specializing in industries such as Hospitality and Retail.

He prides himself on his magnetic ability to host and deliver unforgettable commercial events while finding innovative and unique ways of communicating with different clients and delivering the wow-factor throughout all his consultations and queries.

Tomas proudly holds a three year Bachelor’s Degree in B.Sc. Business Management from the University of Bedfordshire in United Kingdom.

PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

Art Galley Director

Park West Gallery is of the biggest art dealers in the world since 1969. It provides live art actions and art enrichment

seminar onboard more than 100 cruise ships. It has more than 1.4 million collectors all over the world.

Park West Gallery’s mission is to is to create educational, entertaining, and welcoming envi-ronment that ignites a passion for the arts and creates a collecting experience like no other company in the world. Art auctions are very complex operations. Speed, excitement and atten-tion to individual needs of bidders are basic necessities for success. Public presentation always professional and up to highest standards. Delicate selection of artists and artworks according to

demographics. Knowledge of artists, their works of art and particular mediums used to get pre-bids and up-sale in the gallery.

Events Operations ManagerHotel Du Vin in Brighton is a luxurious boutique hotel with a cosy French-style bistro. Seafront location and unique ar-chitecture make hotel unique venue for conferences and banqueting. Hotel provides 5 function rooms for wed-dings, private dinning and business meetings.

• Manage flow of private and business functions in busy boutique hotel.

• Know names and needs of regular guests.

• Close and look after client’s accounts.

• Prepare events and set up venues.

• Cater functions to individual needs of client.

• Lead team to up-sell and exceed sales target.

• Look after brand standard.

• World class training in sales, public speaking and fine art knowledge.

• Organizing interactive live art actions.

• Manage set-up and flow of the auction.

• Keep gallery and art neat and up to highest standards.

• Closing sales in effective and professional manner.

• Proving popular art seminars for passengers.

• Preparing marketing material for successful auction.

• Coaching art associates.

Wedding Coordinator

There is nothing as delicate as a wedding day. Managed up to 75 weddings per year. Sit down meals up to 100

guests, or 150 for drinks reception. Setting up rooms for civil ceremony, wedding breakfast and evening dance. Ability to run punctual meal and drink service. Personal touch to make wedding day special and unforgettable.

Fine Jewelry Host

Starboard Cruise Services belong to LVMH Moët Hen-nessy • Louis Vuitton, Inc., the world’s leading luxury brand group. It provides shopping paradise onboard more than

90 cruise ships.

The Caribbean is a shopping paradise for fine jewelry and Swiss made watches. Host fine jewelry events in one of the largest Fine Jewelry Shops on-board Norwegian EPIC. It has the biggest Fine Jewelry Shop at Seven Seas caring Diamonds, Tanzanite (Asher), Alexandrite (Mark Henry), colored precious and semiprecious gems (Effy,

• Host of sales events in Fine Jewelry Shop.

• Sale of fine jewelry and Swiss made watches.

• Up-sale and matching pieces.

• Build promotions and sales events from scratch.

• Manage flow of promotions on daily basis.

• Prepare and distribute marketing material.

• Turn potential shoppers into buyers.

• Basic visual duties. Display of jewelry.

• Host in onboard morning TV show EPIC Life.

Le-

Vian) and collection of fine Swiss watch brands. Sale of fine jewelry and recommend matching pieces. Organize unveilings and contests to make shopping exciting and approach guests in friendly manner (e.g. Spot the real diamond or Guess the carat weight).

Trunk Shows

Promotion of exclusive jewelry brands. Assist jewelry representatives from famous jewelry houses to create successful sales events. Build up aware-ness about special shopping op- portunities with fine jewelry trunk shows onboard. Close co-operation with fine jewelry lines like Effy, Sophia Fiori, Steven

Royce, Kabana or Yellow Emeralds TM. Presenting their jewelry and host-ing trunk shows while their absence.

Educational Mentor in INDIA

Project Ask

AIESEC is a leading student community organizing development internships all around the world.

Mentoring internship in Chandigahr (India). Participate at student education program. Presenta-tions about HIV/AIDS, coaching on prevention, positive living with disease and available treat-ments. Workshops held in India educating children/students of India and making health and awareness part of their lifestyle.

• School visits to offer project.

• Convince headmasters to allow this par-ticular topic at their premisses.

• Prepare attractive material for young lis-teners.

• Organize workshops for large number of students.

• Lead open discussion.

• Conduct activities and workshops.