Celeste Cole Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

Manage virtual and hybrid events across a variety of digital platforms.Lead testing, onboarding and staff training of digital event platforms.

Greater Seattle Area

• Responsible for delivery of all firm meeting and event services across the Pacific Northwest.
• Drive the logistics, planning, budgeting and organization of large scale events including town hall meetings, trainings, celebrations and community activities, client marketing roundtables and events.
• Comprehensive knowledge of event planning process, contract negotiations, budget management and cost reduction.
• Interface with senior leadership, work across functional groups, manage relationships with vendors and internal clients.

Seattle, WA

• Managed the deployment and day-to-day service delivery of an administrative team of 20+ direct reports, supporting staff and partners across multiple offices.
• Responsible for team performance, utilization, cost management and customer satisfaction.
• Local office change agent responsible for successful execution of National Administrative organization’s continuous improvement strategy.

• Senior member of marketing and corporate communications team at high-tech media company; promoted three times to reach final role as head of two teams – Events Team and Media Lab.
• Drove production of company’s most high profile executive events such as product launches, press conferences and CEO keynote production. Represented corporate brand and messaging goals across a wide variety of live.
• Directed team of event managers in execution of annual events program including trade shows and public consumer events, concerts and parties, conferences, speaking opportunities, company sales meetings and morale.
• Managed team of media producers working on high quality audio and video productions including live concerts with A-level musical artists, in-studio recordings, sizzle and marketing videos, b-roll creation and other.
• Managed multi-million dollar annual budget for entire Corporate Communications team, including groups not within my direct reporting structure. Primary liaison between Corp-Comm executive and Finance for budgeting.
• Created annual event marketing plans, schedules and budgets for corporate trade show program in order to meet specific business objectives for all company divisions.

• Performed roles of increasing responsibility at media company specializing in production of industry trade shows and conferences.
• Determined and managed budget for nine annual industry conferences and trade shows.
• Coordinated all conference operations including hotel and convention center meeting spaces, audio/visual, catering, ancillary meetings and special events, city-wide housing and registration.
• Wrote RFPs and negotiated contracts with venues, event vendors and travel agencies.
• Leveraged industry contacts to develop new conference ideas and educational programs and to obtain support and promotion for events.
• Recruited speakers and coordinated their participation in conferences.