Jay Patrick Cleary

875 Queen St. W. Suite 1, Toronto, Ontario, M6J 1G5

Phone 416. 877. 4075 Fax 416. 251. 8743 Email jay.cleary@gmail.com

OVERVIEW
Jay is a highly creative and entrepreneurial individual with over 10 years of diverse experience in
the entertainment industry, during which he has developed an international network of high-level
industry and artist relationships. His core strengths in event promotion, production/logistics and
management, artist development and new media marketing are backed by outstanding
negotiation, community building and interpersonal skills.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
September 09 Publicist & Artist Relations, Do Right! Music / Right On Media
- present  Artist Manager Assistant, Booking Agent and Publicist for Do Right! Roster
 Agent for Juno Nominated Artist Elizabeth Shepherd, booking her a Major
Jazz Festivals and clubs in Canada and the US.
 Publicist for CBC Radio 3’s 2010 Top Festival in Canada Evolve Festival
 Attended MIDEM Conference on Export Mission sponsored by OMDC

June 01 Executive Director, 360° Artists and Touring Inc.

- present  Artist Manager, Booking Agent, Talent Buyer & Promoter
 Tour Manager - Europe and Canada Tours ( '99 - '09)
 Freelance Music Journalist, Music Business Consultant and Publicist
 Recipient of $12,000 CAPACOA International Touring Education Grant
 Co-Artistic Director of The Evolve Music Festival

January 04 Event Coordinator, NuFunk Concerts, Toronto, ON

- present  Festival and Event Programming, Marketing and Administration
 Marketing Consultant for Live Nation, Egg Plant Entertainment, Small World
Music, Embrace and other Independent producers
 Recipient of $7,000 Ontario Arts Council Presenter/Producer Grant
 Artistic Director, Toronto NuJazz Festival, 2008 / 2009

September 02 The Business of Music Course Coordinator, The St. Francis Xavier
- December 03 Enterprise Development Centre, Antigonish/ Halifax, Nova Scotia
 Curriculum development for Music Business Education in NS
 Responsible for Public Relations and Publicist Activities
 Business Plan creation for Northern Nova Scotia Tourism Board

January 00 VP of Sales / Assistant to President, Ardenne International Inc.

- January 03 World Trade Center, Halifax, Nova Scotia
 Sales Manager and Onsite Event Manager for Corporate Events;
Commonwealth Education Ministers’ Conference, Cardiovascular
Association Conference, Royal Architect Institute AGM, Tall Ships Festival;
managed corporate events with budgets in excess of $90,000
 Gained extensive knowledge of Canadian Entertainment Industry
 Developed strong work ethic to work under pressure and deadlines
 Produced corporate events with top Atlantic Canadian Jazz & Celtic Artists

August 99 Advertising Sales Associate, Atlantic Gig Newspaper

- January 00 Play on Words Publishing, Halifax, Nova Scotia
 Responsible for soliciting revenue of up to $3,000 per issue
 Expanded sales and business relationship skills
 Developed understanding of media’s role in Music Industry
 September 98 VP of Marketing and Promotions, St. Francis Xavier University
- April 99 Student’s Union, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
 Responsible for production of all campus activities including speakers, film
series and full scale concert productions
 Manager of publicity and production staff
 Developed a clear understanding of entertainment programming

EDUCATION

1999 Bachelor of Business Administration, Major in Information

Systems, Minor in Jazz Studies
St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia

1998 French Language Bursary Level 4

University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia

1995 Ontario Secondary Academic & French Immersion Certificate

Richview Collegiate Institute, Toronto, Ontario

PROJECT EXPERIENCE
 Managed marketing, promotions and funding of the Evolve Music Festival
(’99-‘10); secured $42,000 in government sponsorship resulting in over
22,500 individual tickets sales over ten years; www.evolvefestival.com
 Artistic Director and Marketing Coordinator for NuJazz Festival
 Named one of Toronto’s Top 10 Promoters by NOW Magazine, 2006
 Concert and Tour Promotion, Publicity and Marketing Consultant for
musical groups, feature films and special events across Canada, United
States and Europe
 Nominated as Music Industry of Nova Scotia’s Publicist of the Year 2003

COMPUTER SKILLS
Social Media 2.0 Expert, Computer Networking and Internet Business Solutions;
Windows XP/NT; Apple/Mac O/S; Database Management & SQL Programming;
ACT; Microsoft Access, Excel, Netscape, PowerPoint and Word; Multimedia
Applications: Authorware, Flash, Quark and Photoshop. Web Publishers; EZ
Publish and PHP-Nuke.

REFERENCES
Athena Ellinas-Towers, GM
The Opera House, Toronto
Office - 416.466.0313 ext 2
athena@theoperahousetoronto.com
www.theoperahousetoronto.com

Alan Davis, Executive Director

Small World Music
Office - 416 536-5439
alan@smallworldmusic.com
www.smallworldmusic.com

Gary Cormier, Independent Promoter 416-759-1941

gpcormier@rogers.com