Austin Abelkis · Gothenburg, Sweden
Communication, from the commercial side.
Master’s student in Communication at the University of Gothenburg — organisational communication track — after ten years producing partnerships, sponsorships, and live events in the US.
Looking for
A semester-long internship in autumn 2027 — partnerships, brand or marketing communication — in Gothenburg, hybrid or on-site.
Get in touch →What I bring
Brand communication in the field
Running national field activations for Chaco (Wolverine Worldwide) — leading brand ambassador teams, meeting consumers face to face, and keeping a global brand consistent city after city, with the daily reporting to prove it.
Sponsored & partner content
At Do503 I managed organic and sponsored content with partner brands — Jack Daniel’s, Red Bull, Campari — where the line between marketing and editorial is itself a communication problem.
Partnerships, end to end
At WagsWorks I produce and deliver festival sponsorships — the materials, the contracts, the on-site activation, the reporting — and built the back-office system the agency runs on.
In brief
I’ve spent the last several years on the commercial side of communication: producing and delivering sponsorships for US festivals and concert series at WagsWorks, where I run operations and partner delivery. That means everything around the sale — the pitch deck, the contract, the on-site activation, and the invoice afterward. Along the way I built the back-office system we run the business on, because nothing off the shelf fit how sponsorship actually gets sold.
Before that: event production, digital marketing, and managing brand ambassador programmes for Chaco and Wolverine Worldwide. BA in Advertising Management from Portland State, with a thesis on brand building for small business.
Ten years of that work happened from the agency and field side of big consumer brands. The master’s is the deliberate next step: studying how large organisations communicate — inside and out — with a particular interest in partnerships, sponsorship, and the promises brands make in public.
Swedish: working proficiency, improving. English: native.