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We create the most talked-about experiences.
No one sets out to be average. No one aspires to be ordinary.
Jonathan is an events professional that loves to reimagine what an experience can be. We like to get creative and push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Though within your boundaries and budget.
No one sets out to be average. No one aspires to be ordinary.
Jonathan is an events professional that loves to reimagine what an experience can be. We like to get creative and push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Though within your boundaries and budget.
We do events of all shapes and sizes, and at all stages.
From weddings and private events to corporate events, sports and public events/festivals.
Our passion is creating high-quality events those attending will remember.
Whatever stage you’re at, we can support from the beginning or join in as the time nearers.
Our in house team can even set up websites for you, including setting up RSVPs and Ticketing.
About
Founder, Jonathan Geitner
Jonathan is an innovative event professional, providing event management with over 25 years of experience in running events, from start to finish, and are ones to remember.
From running the 2nd largest obstacle course in the UK with 10,000 people on a weekend & 3000 spectators to corporate events with the Chairman of 15 major banks at luxury 5* hotels, to days out and retreats – to the running and logistics of all the tennis players & their families at the ATP Tennis Finals and delivering on 1000s of weddings and private individual events.
Events stretching from California and the USA to Cyprus, France and dozens of other countries.
Jonathan himself has worked at The Savoy, Claridge’s, The Connaught, The Berkeley, Marriott and Hilton Hotels where he was the one Wedding Planners and Events Organisers would go to, to negotiate with and he would then arrange everything for the events organisers & wedding planners. He knows and understands the logistics from an operational standpoint and what’s possible, or not. He’s also worked overseas running outside catering companies and been the supplier to Wedding Organisers, so he has the inside knowledge. Not just the normal event planner. With all this experience, he knows how to negotiate with venues, how to get the best deals, and has built up a large network of suppliers from musicians and DJ’s to lighting, sound and infrastructure, each who offer favorable rates.
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An outstanding event professional having project-managed events of all styles & sizes.
From intimate dinners for 15 Chairman of each of the major banks, including Barclays, JP Morgan, Bear Sterns to name a few to mass participation sports events, with 10,000 attendees & 3,000 spectators.
I’ve organised fundraising events with Marriott Hotels, organised the ATP Tennis Finals delegation on their first visit to London at the London Marriott Hotel County Hall & managed the full band of tennis stars & their families.
I founded The Entrepreneur Network, running monthly seminars for several years, both in-person & live-streamed with 200-300 delegates & speakers talking on topics to help business owners. And I ran Launch48 – a business incubator where 200 delegates would arrive on a Friday afternoon in a conference-style set up, with lots of break-out rooms & activities. Here I secured sponsorship from PayPal, & Launch48 was later sold to Oxygen Accelerator.
I was Founder & CEO of Rough Runner, which I grew to become the 2nd largest Obstacle Course Event in the UK – Tough Mudder was first. We were about to overtake them until Covid hit & we had to put the business into administration. Here I also wore all the hats, raising over £1.5million from investors, organised 63 events each having between 2500 & 10,000 attendees & 3,000 spectators. A huge operation with over 200 site crew, multiple suppliers, traders, contractors, & workers.
With all the events, I’ve worn all the hats, including the marketing, sales, planning, implementation & execution, operations & logistics, health & safety (including Risk Assessments), website & creative assets, the workforce, & the derig – ensuring the venue & all stakeholders, upon our departure, were happy.
I’ve managed multiple stakeholders, including UHNWI, Councils, & the local SAG – including the chief of Fire, police, ambulance, & local NHS trusts.
Coming from sales & marketing in hotels, my relationship management skills are second to none. Being able to build relationships, manage them, & nurture them is the reason why I was able to manage the stakeholders for all these events well for many years, always being invited back year after year.
Passionate & meticulous with detail, my Clifton Strengths is accurate in its findings with my 5 top strengths being:
Futuristic – visionary for the future, challenging others to consider ideas they may not have thought about, ability to channel energy into accomplishing goals for future, churning out new & inventive ways of reaching goals, being able to see the bigger picture & look far ahead.
Activator – making things happen; turning thoughts into action – waste little time moving forward with projects or assignments; sense of urgency, enjoy working & getting the job done, energise others so they feel enthusiastic about something I’m working on, like to just get on with it – not waiting for all the lights to turn green but progressing forwards until we hit an obstacle, learning from this, navigating around this, & continuing on to the next obstacle.
Maximizer – taking something from below average to slightly above average doesn’t cut the mustard with me – I’m interested in turning something average into something superb; I enjoy unravelling tangled issues & dilemmas; figuring out the route to get there.
Achiever – have a great deal of stamina & likes to work hard. Takes great satisfaction from being busy & productive. Have a constant need for achievement & feeling like I’m accomplished something where each day starts back at zero.
Competition – I measure success on past performance & that of others. Good at pushing myself until I’ve declared victory!
Prior to running events, I headed up sales & marketing for major luxury hotels & ran my own consultancy helping UHNWI set up, run, or improve their own hotel (s).
This includes everything from repositioning the business in the marketplace, the writing & execution of business plans, sales & marketing plans & strategies & seeing the business change from poor performing to high performing.
The last position was at the London Marriott Hotel County Hall where I was asked to help improve the performance of the business. After reviewing the present situation, I re-wrote the business plan focusing on the budget to achieve, then re-wrote the sales & marketing plans.
I then re-positioned the hotel in the marketplace through on & offline marketing techniques & executed the sales strategy where I moved the hotel from the worst-performing Marriott in the UKIEMEA to the best performing Marriott in the UKIMEA, from £12m to £19.4m turnover in 3 years, during the recession ending Dec 09.
I’ve achieved multiple accolades, including the best marketing team in the UK as voted by the Charted Institute of Marketing, the best salesperson with Marriott International & have gone on to train as an Executive Coach to help others further.
What clients say
Some of the brands we’ve worked with
Some of the genres of the events we’ve worked on
Weddings
From small to large; luxury hotels to beach settings, on all budgets.
Festivals & Large Events
Logistics, stakeholder management, artist management, planning.
Sports
Obstacle Courses, running events, and everything in between.
Individual/Private Parties
Any event, small or large, for individuals such as birthdays & b’nei mitzvah
Planning & Logistics
Need help with planning, infrastructure, licensing, traffic management?