Christina Thurstan Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

As a freelance event director and owner of EventTHIS, I offer flexible event solutions worldwide. Supporting your needs as a flexible and experienced resource, I can work as a consultant or as part of your team. I offer event strategy, planning and management services, including delegate management, venue finding and liaison. My full-service project.

Reading, United Kingdom

• As Project Director I was part of the senior management team in Quintiles’ global events department. Initially I was brought in to head up the relatively new and quickly expanding event delivery team. My primary focus.
• Recruitment and talent development
• Event resourcing and freelancer management
• Team utilisation and resource planning, including backfill
• Line management of 12 international reports including monthly one-to-one meetings, mid/end-of-year reviews
• Acting as a reference point for global team members, drawing on my experience delivering pharmaceutical events worldwide

Reading, United Kingdom

This role included many aspects of my role as Project Director above, however a larger proportion of my time was spent delivering international event programmes, recruiting core members of Quintiles’ event delivery team and establishing key internal processes.

Working as a conduit between Business Development and Operations departments, the Account Director role was created to enable the company to nurture ‘seed’ accounts which offer potential future volume. The role comprised overall responsibility for events taking place under each account, ensuring account-specific pricing and other details such as client.

As an Event Director my role took on an expanded overview of event operations, with further responsibility upon that outlines below (Event Manager). I was tasked with managing, larger, complex events including global series and/or more challenging clients. The position meant working increasingly across offices to support the event management teams planning.

• The Event Manager role comprised overall accountability for the smooth delivery and execution of a meeting or series of events. Primarily, this consisted of liaising effectively with the appointed client contact to.
• attending Business Development handover on award of project
• setting up and leading kick-off meeting, (face to face if possible, or via teleconference)
• arranging and running weekly TCs to discuss progress, managing deadlines and responding to queries
• venue selection (working with venue search team) and site visit, production of site visit report with detailed review of venue and logistical recommendations
• budget management and reporting, including weekly financial update of forecasted versus actual costs

Based in the EMEA Headquarters, this role was placed within the Event Operations team and comprised managing the operations and logistics of 18 EMEA conferences annually from 50 to 5000 attendees. Working on a range of events including large-scale conferences and exhibitions, seminars, corporate events, and the flagship ‘Symposium & ITxpo’ event, my.

• Operating as part of a team responsible for a number of accounts, my role included working closely with the client and creating the portfolio for their marketing activities. My duties covered:
• proposal management, budgeting, contacting and liaising with venues, site visits, pre-event management of logistics, event team/staffing, negotiating with suppliers, managing transportation of materials
• on-site promotion of product to consumers to increase brand awareness and sales
• post marketing event evaluation