TINZAR SHERMAN              

Tinzar is a multi-cultural marketing, social media and events expert working across entertainment, media and technology. As VP of Marketing & Events at Digital Media Wire, she heads up the Digital Media Wire events team and manages many of the company’s most significant sponsorship and marketing relationships across its events and publishing properties as well as social media outreach. Since joining the company in 2002, Tinzar has been instrumental in building relationships with leading companies in the media, entertainment and technology industries. Her clients range from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups and cover such industries as games, music, film, television, publishing, mobile and Internet commerce. Tinzar is also a core member of the company’s corporate strategy team and is active in building new partnerships and launching products and events.

Prior to joining Digital Media Wire as Marketing Director in 2002, Tinzar was head of communications at the Beverly Hills Hotel. During her term, she was in charge of Internet and communications issues and the management of the hotel’s Communications staff. She handled the hotel’s relationships with mobile service providers, managed the Department’s budget, payroll, phone equipment and office supply inventories. Prior to that, Tinzar held management positions at the Four Seasons Hotel at Beverly Hills, the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood and the world-renowned Halekulani Hotel in Waikiki, Honolulu.

Tinzar holds a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a major in Hotel & Restaurant Management and a minor in Japanese. She is a fluent Burmese, Thai, and English speaker and speaks conversational Japanese.