Tim Villanueva
Managing Partner / Co-Founder
Tim has a passion for events in arts, culture, and fashion, reflected in his previous experiences at large-scale events such as the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and Toronto 2015 Pan American and ParaPan American Games. Tim had also previously served as the Head of Events of Logistics for Toronto Men's and Toronto Women's Fashion Weeks for 5 seasons.
Style and design inspire him; classic, modern, and everything in between. Tim pulls from these inspirations and merges them into event plans. Tim believes that sometimes restraints can be a catalyst for creativity. Thinking inside the box can be just as potent as thinking outside of the box. As General Manager, Tim takes up the daily management and leads the business and event strategy, sets the vision, builds the team, and help to allocate financial resources.
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Like an event director, this position will take up the daily business implementations & tracking and checking on the completion of contracts. He will lead the event strategy, sets the vision, builds the team, and help to allocate financial resources.
Nicky Smith
Finance & Technology Manager / Co-Founder
Nicky loves putting on a show, from behind the scenes and believes details can enhance visceral moments. From set up to takedown, she sustains a proactive energy at every event. With a background in set design and decor, Nicky's love of sparkles, and the never-ending quest to create wonder began. From being a runner, decorator to the office manager, Nicky has enjoyed it all!
As the Finance and Technology Manager, Nicky’s specialty is facilitating the flow of better communication and bridging the gap between tight budgets and artistic vision. Nicky is the go-to tech person, well versed in multiple platforms and technologies, and can provide the best solution for each event, all while staying within budget.
Jenny Vavaroutsou
Food & Beverage Manager /
Co-Founder
Manage, build, and maintain relationships with partnerships for events, marketing strategies, help to develop sales and marketing initiative to leading to organization growth
Jenny Vavaroutsou is an upcoming graduate from George Brown College, a future event planner on the Canadian landscape. Jenny is switching gears from working in the field of education to the life of an event manager. Her rewarding work with children gleaned her a great deal of experience. From creating and planning the day-to-day programming, maintaining routines via precision time management, and planning fundraisers she felt a change in a career was coming. Jenny wanted to nurture this new love of creating unique experiences, so she went back to school. As Jenny has embarked on this new venture, it has allowed her to expand her skill set for creating joyful experiences. It's also birthed a new knack creating tempting food and wine pairing, usually resulting in salivating palettes.
TZU-YA LIAO
(Sharlene)
Marketing & Design Manager
With the enthusiasm for design, marketing, and events, TZU-YA demonstrated her experience by holding the Alumni competition in University, which had been named one of the best in 20 years. TZU-YA volunteered and performed in the gargantuan production of the Deaflympics in 2009. TZU-YA has 5 years of solid experience in design, 2 years working in a marketing company giving her an edge with a multiview vision of the event aesthetics appeal. TZU-YA believes the message delivery is important when communicating with the target audience. Through proper graphic design, she can also help to express the ideas simply and cleanly. Taking event developing courses, inspired TZU-YA a lot to her desire to employ good design within and around an event. TZU-YA believes there is no best solution, but always has a better one, by being creative to make it into reality.
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Oversee marketing to increasing traffic and appealing to target audience for our services. Creating posts, pages, and applications to attract customers. Using programming skills to build pages and applications. Measuring key performance indicators. In charge of all of visual components of company and events and assuring consistency.
Maryna Kaduchenko
Research & Development Manager/
Co-Founder
Maryna is a classical soul who enjoys a stroll through a museum and the writings of Freud.
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A dedicated events management & administrative professional who will soon be graduating from the Special Event Management program at George Brown College.
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Maryna is encouraged by her continuing interests in virtual events planning, marketing, and social media that has propelled her to take up extra learning opportunities when they present themselves. She has happily jumped into the field of the events and hopes to make a positive impact not only in profits or recognition, but also on human connections.
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Jasmine Olivieri
PR/Communications Officer
Jasmine has the rare capability to recognize and capture the heart of the company through strategic and creative marketing/communication efforts. Her most significant asset is that she goes far beyond simply ensuring positive images are kept with the eye of the public. She continuously stands out in her industry as someone who is able to cultivate a deep relationship with event attendees all throughout the event process.
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“The careful act of orchestrating the emotions of how people feel about a company and an experience, is the fundamental core of an event’s success” - Jasmine Olivieri
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Her philosophy is to appeal to the rational and emotional side of people so that the consumer has a product or service experience that is truly memorable. Jasmine has served in social media management for the past 3 years and has been in the special event industry for 5 years. She has coordinated many of her own events, and with limited resources she was able to attain high visibility, following, and high attendee numbers. Her secret? It’s in being a disrupter in the industry, including in the marketing experience. Her passion on keeping an eye and ear for whats trending and shaping an experience to leave a lasting impression on her guests is something that has been notable in her career.
Ngoc Bao Huynh
(Judy)
Community Engagement Manager
Judy is a developing event planner whose interests intersect the spheres of technology, arts, and culture within the events field. Judy trusts technology can be implemented as to not impede human connection, but assist in its flow. As arts are food for the soul and culture is people's identity, Judy sees technology as the bridge to the next plateau of people's interaction. Judy's volunteer positions at various cultural events grew her enthusiasm for a career in events. Judy soon stepped onto her path for passionate idea-generating and successfully execution of the streamlined idea into a chic and exceptional experience with a compassionate touch. Judy continues to grow and become a vital member, as documented in her stellar photography.
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Responsible for planning and executing events and activities related to services rendered. Manage relevant programs and campaigns undertaken by the organization. Work with customer ensure satisfaction and completion of services to compliment services and goals of the company.