Ambitious work.
Experienced leadership.

Proven at production scale

Rob’s experience includes Cirque du Soleil big top productions with more than 100 containers and 300 people. These shows typically moved every five weeks to about three months. Each move meant dismantling, transporting and rebuilding an entire temporary venue, with the site becoming a new build project in each city.

At Ringling Brothers, his responsibilities included teams of 300 people, two trains, 25 trucks and the movement of both people and animals. Marvel Universe Live! and Jurassic World Live! arena productions each involved approximately 35 trucks and more than 100 people, moving weekly through around 40–45 cities per year.

Sesame Street tours played one-night engagements, with more than 100 dates per unit each year and several hundred city engagements across the touring units. Rob also oversaw a small Sesame Street tour that traveled with just five road cases. Its cast and crew flew between cities with costumes, a few props and a curtain backdrop, using venue lighting, sound and local support.

Keeping work moving around the clock meant coordinating teams on different schedules. Rob layered the work so each team could begin as soon as the previous task was finished, planning shifts, breaks and rest periods around those handoffs.

For your project

A working schedule and budget, named responsibilities and regular updates on progress, costs and outstanding decisions.

Multiple tours. One coordinated operation.

At Feld Entertainment, Rob oversaw five concurrent Sesame Street Live tours alongside Marvel Universe Live! and Jurassic World Live!—seven productions moving at the same time, including international units. He also oversaw two simultaneous Ringling Bros. productions, each with more than 300 people, coordinating trucks, trains and animals.

Across borders and markets

His work in more than 50 countries includes licensing, permits, customs, immigration and carnets. EMP brings that practical experience to freight, travel, venue requirements, local labor and the decisions that need resolution before arrival.

Built to open. Prepared to keep running.

Rob’s Cirque du Soleil engagements could remain in one market for up to six months, combining major installation work with sustained site operations. As VP of Operations for Immersive Experiences, he also led transportation, load-in, launch and ongoing operations for the months-long Perceptual Experience in Chicago.

For your experience

Support from load-in through daily operations, handoff and eventual removal, depending on the assignment.

Leadership built across complex operations

From large Cirque du Soleil teams to concurrent Feld productions and Jurassic Quest’s operating transitions, Rob has worked where staffing, suppliers, budgets and delivery all depend on one another. He brings that experience to decisions about staffing, spending and the work managers need to complete.

For your business

An operations leader who takes on agreed responsibilities and follows through with your managers and suppliers.

One show. Two continents. Different infrastructure.

At Cirque du Soleil, Rob managed a relocation from Perth, Australia, to Antwerp, Belgium, via Amsterdam using two 747s. The tent, generators, bathrooms and bleachers stayed in Australia.

The equipment was loaded onto trucks at the Perth site and driven to the airport, where it was transferred onto airline pallets for the flights to Amsterdam. After arrival, it was unloaded from the aircraft, removed from the airline pallets and loaded onto semi-trucks for the drive to Antwerp.

In Antwerp, the team unloaded and installed the show in a European tent three meters smaller in diameter than the one in Australia. The setup required modifications to fit that smaller space and meet the stricter local regulations and touring requirements.

The move required freight planning, coordination between locations and a build schedule that accounted for different site infrastructure—the same work involved in preparing a new location or transferring an operation.

For your next launch

Staffing, logistics and operating plans for each site, with time to train the team before opening.