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Highly effective brand strategist, communicator, and digital marketing expert.  Proven team builder with excellent eye for detail and aesthetics.  Specific strengths in creative direction + positioning, strategic analysis, project + team management, social media, and successful branded events with experience spanning ten years across action sports, music, and tech.

•	Directed global brand strategy, building brand loyalty across 25 countries using unified online and offline efforts.  Crafted positioning and ensured messaging consistency, leading to industry-high brand affinity and retention.
•	Implemented consumer-driven marketing initiatives resulting in 120% growth in custom apparel, 30% overall profit growth, and 40% overall revenue growth year over year.  Supported distributor/retail strategy at trade shows and events.
•	Increased revenues 40% YOY and reduced CPM 45% by identifying key customer segmentation insights and actionable strategy from analytics management (Google Analytics, Simply Measured).
•	Accomplished 400% average increase over past 2 years of social reach, engagement, frequency, and source traffic to site and store, managing both paid and organic efforts (creative, ad budgeting, A/B testing).
•	Managed marketing team of 4 direct reports, interns, and multiple vendors within constraints of marketing budget.

Marketing Director

•	Pitched and closed initial vision to city and sanctioning body, directed launch, and achieved #2 USA BMX track ranking in California and #6 in US within one year of opening (out of 400, unprecedented). Led top 5%-in-category social media efforts and associated analytics. Managed ongoing staff.
•	Pitched and brought in the USA BMX Seaside Nationals multi-day event for 2014-2016, a race series attended by 8000+, driving $7MM to the City of Ventura, making it Ventura's largest sporting event.  Managed event staff.
•	Established six-figure sponsor support from Monster Energy, Mazda, Land Rover, others (combined).  Secured features on Red Bull TV, BMX Plus, VC Reporter, Ventura County Star, PULL magazine. 
•	Organized events with Olympic and world-class athletes and manage rider/attendee data for retargeting purposes.

Co-Founder // Marketing Director

•	Accomplished over 8X revenue increase during tenure, monetizing digital content from producers and artists.
•	Managed brand and communications mix including digital (email/social), printed materials, and events (NAMM, ASCAP expo).

Marketing Manager

•	Developed customer, advertising, and sales support communications and coordinated implementation of marketing promotions and customer retention programs, including key seasonal campaigns, across traditional and digital channels.
•	Supported website and enterprise email, working closely with editorial and brand teams to create integrated messaging.

Product Marketing Specialist

Using a mix of Google PPC, PR/publicity, blogging, newsletter, and social, I helped Moses launch the digital version of his world-famous music-industry workshop as his paid marketing intern while in my last year of undergraduate study at Woodbury.

Marketing Intern

Find out detailed information about Lea Kozin,  in Ventura, CA

Lea Kozin: in Ventura, CA

Lea Kozin

Nema International

Ventura BMX Raceway

Electric City Entertainment

Canon Solutions America

The Moses Avalon Company

University of California, Los Angeles - The Anderson School of Management

Woodbury University