Brian Hawkins on Clubhouse

Bio

Product Design @ BootHunter/ Co-Founder StyleSeek TasteBud/Made Matters Podcast IGTV/Serial Entrepreneur/Educator/Mentor
TREND ➡️ INNOVATION ➡️ STORYTELLING

EDUCATION
BA◻️Business Administration & International Relations University of San Diego
MBA◻️Marketing & Advertising ASU Thunderbird School of Global Management

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Lived & Worked in Italy 🇮🇹 , France 🇫🇷 , South Africa 🇿🇦 , Denmark 🇩🇰: Speak 6 languages 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇲🇽 🇳🇴

CLIENTS
American Express, American Red Cross, AT&T, BMW North America, California State Parks, City Of San Diego, Farmers Insurance, General Motors, Kellogg's, Kimberly Clark, Sempra Energy, True Value Hardware, Population Services International, Project Concern International, USAA, World Vision

ENTREPRENEUR
CATALYST :◻️My first venture was a sports marketing, special event, and media agency focused on high end customer experiences and cause-marketing. I designed and implemented promotional partnerships between non-profits, companies, media, and government/public entities. VOLUNTOURS :◻️I successfully launched, developed and later donated VolunTours, a social enterprise volunteer based travel concept to Los Ninos International. STYLESEEK and TASTEBUD TECHNOLOGY :◻️I co-developed, a groundbreaking and highly accurate apparel and lifestyle product recommendation platform based on a proprietary style-based algorithm. PREFAB SPACE :◻️ I founded and successfully kickstarted, a co-working and pop-up retail and industry showcase for creatives and makers. LASH.LIVE :◻️I am currently marketing director with a startup live action shopping platform,

PROFESSOR & MENTOR
I teach trends and innovation, cause marketing, media, and entrepreneurship at UCSD, FIDM and Niels Brock Copenhagen.

PROFESSIONAL STRENGTHS
◻️I have a passion for uncovering emerging trends.
◻️I build memorable brand experiences for customers.
◻️I develop brand collaborations, visual and storytelling content.
◻️I consult with early stage startups developing customer, market, product , and brand strategy.
◻️I highlight legacy and emerging handcrafted menswear brands and boutique retailers through my BootHunter platform.