Matthew Murray: Advocate for Lyme Disease in Santa Monica, CA

Since 2010, Matthew Murray has been an advocate for Lyme Disease, a disease that has affected Matthew’s mother for almost two decades. In the late fall of 2009, Matthew approached is mother over Thanksgiving dinner to ask if she would support his interest in running the 2010 NYC Marathon for Lyme disease awareness. From that point on Matthew has run the 2010, 2011 and 2013 NYC Marathon’s to raise money and awareness for Lyme disease. To learn more about Matthew and his mother’s story, please visit – www.4momma.com

Today’s top brands and agencies are constantly in search of “the bridge” to top talent and innovative services. Additionally, today’s top talent and innovative service providers are looking to align themselves with authentic brands and agencies that will take their businesses to the next level. At Coalition Space we focus on providing services to our clients that address and solve their business objectives through our Coalition of experts and then connect both sides via the bridge to create new revenue models. We believe that when our clients are educated in a timely and knowledgeable manner it establishes a competitive advantage within their vertical markets. The following are three services we offer… - ADVISOR: Start-Ups & Talent - BLUEPRINT: Start-Ups & Brands - CONSULTANT: Start-Ups, Brands & Talent Breaking it down, the "Coalition" in Coalition Space is a network of experts in select professional fields that fall under two categories of core and extended, who the founder, Matthew Murray partners with to provide tailored expertise for clients. Coalition Space provides expertise in six business categories that can be matched up with either of the three services. CATEGORIES: Strategy // Content // Innovation // Investments // Partnerships // Sponsorships In turn successful start-ups, brands and talent offer unique intellectual property and we work with them across our network of experts which in-turn produces the "Space". Today, we live in a virtual world on so many levels that the physical connection of doing business has become a lost art. Our focus at Coalition Space is to bring that physical element back to life while utilizing all the virtual advancements technology provides us. That is why the Space is determined by what the client requires and then takes place where the assigned service(s) can be successfully delivered, thus creating a custom experience. Learn more at: http://coalition-space.com

After several recent commissioned bookings to shoot photography at the start of the new year, Matthew has relaunched his professional photography under "Matthew Benjamin". To learn more about these recent developments check-out the BETA website launch at matthewbenjaminphoto.com