TOM CRICHTON
Founder, HelpGetSponsors.com
Tom Crichton founded Help Get Sponsors, Inc., a full-service sponsorship
sales and management agency in 2001. After fully understanding the
challenges that events face when securing sponsorships, he decided to
design and launch affordable software providing events the critical
tools needed to sell and manage sponsorships at the highest level. That
company is now in a term-sheet for acquisition by a larger technology
company Events.com.Tom has sold and managed over $14 million in
sponsorships for his clients including major city festivals,
entertainment events, the largest endurance events in the world, and
within motorsports including NASCAR team sponsorships for NFL Hall of
Famer Terry Bradshaw.Tom has personally worked with such sponsorship
brands on behalf of his clients including GE, Coca-Cola, AOL,
CitiFinancial, Office Depot, Nationwide, the US Navy, National Guard,
Allstate, FedEx, PepsiCo, Budweiser, Subaru, and many other fortune 500
companies.Prior to his experience in the sponsorship and marketing
industry, Tom had a successful, decade long career in sports television
winning two TV News Emmy Awards for sports reporting and producing.In
2006 Tom competed in his first triathlon and was immediately hooked with
the benefits of endurance training and racing. He has gone on to
compete in hundreds of events and becoming a three-time Ironman
finisher. His last Ironman he finished 145th overall out of nearly 3,000
competitors in the race!