Meet the team

Charlotte Aries
Project Assistant

Charlotte Aries

Project Assistant

Prior to joining TTA in 2022, my career had a 7-year focus on creative, marketing and design project management within the property industry. I’m now excited to bring this skillset - plus my drive to learn and develop - to my new role in global event delivery for TTA’s great clients. I also have a strong interest in photography/videography and love to capture on film those iconic event moments and the amazing destinations we visit to showcase our craft.

Fabienne Bailey
Digital Project Manager

Fabienne Bailey

Digital Project Manager

Before joining TTA in 2022, I project managed hybrid and virtual events for a government charity, ranging from large international panels to steering groups. Now part of the TTA team delivering a wide spectrum of global meetings and congresses, I am particularly excited to bring my skills as a creative event management graduate into the project mix along with my positive energy and open mind to the endless possibility of live experience.

Katie Caldwell
Events Director

Katie Caldwell

Events Director

I head up event services and work with the board to shape our event strategy and ensure best practices are applied company-wide. I’ve loved the sheer variety of projects I’ve run across industry sectors such as food technology and healthcare, and being a speaker of both French and Spanish comes in handy when dealing with our global clients and suppliers. I’m fanatical about building enduring client relationships, and continually refreshing our collective event skills, processes and spirit of innovation – all of which helps to keep TTA at the forefront of global event management.

Charley Cook
Project Assistant

Charley Cook

Project Assistant

With project coordination and management experience across a range of sectors, I really enjoy delivering events end-to-end and ensuring that our clients really achieve their key business goals. I have a passion for travel and have spent extended periods of time in Asia and Australasia. A highlight of my career to date was working on property projects in the beautiful reserves in Queenstown, New Zealand.

Katherine Crawford
Senior Project Manager

Katherine Crawford

Senior Project Manager

As soon as I joined TTA in 2005, I was excited to be working amid such a professional, vibrant and enthusiastic team. Today, as a Senior Project Manager, I deliver all sorts of events from concept to completion, for clients including healthcare companies, publishing houses and professional associations. I love scouting round trade shows to discover the latest event technologies, especially emerging innovations in delegate registration and event apps that we can subsequently apply to compelling effect for our clients.

Jane Farrell
Marketing Director

Jane Farrell

Marketing Director

I combine a background in global PR and communications programmes with a long tenure here at TTA, where I focus on business planning, proposal development and marketing. Our clients deserve the highest quality service, so I work with our in-house teams and partners to ensure we collectively immerse ourselves in our clients’ business, mobilise our best thinking and implement strong, relevant event solutions. I also populate the TTA radar with the latest industry news, developments and thinking, to inform the ongoing development of our services and processes.

Dan Forward
Project Assistant

Dan Forward

Project Assistant

As a recent Business Management graduate, I’m pleased to be able to put my degree to work in an industry that has so much variety and opportunity. My role as project assistant means I am involved in multiple projects which gives me a great overview of TTA’s global experience delivery and the chance to learn every aspect of the event lifecyle from creating the pre event delegate experience to travelling internationally so I can be immersed in the event coming together on site for our clients and their customers.

Emma Gardner
Project Assistant

Emma Gardner

Project Assistant

My interest in the events sector was initially ignited in my previous marketing role and I am now excited to expand my events experience further as a Project Assistant with TTA. I love a challenge always enjoy seeing a project come to life from initial planning stages, through to the onsite experience and follow up. I look forward to combining my passion for travel with my love of delivering the vision of our clients through global event communications.

Claire Gibson
Senior Project Assistant

Claire Gibson

Senior Project Assistant

I joined TTA armed with 9 years' experience in marketing and events across several sectors including financial services and insurance. My expertise spans a wide variety of projects from roadshows and conferences to exhibitions, incentives, virtual meetings and incentives. Being part of a busy project team delivering global events for leading international companies is exciting and I love applying my skills and experience to delivering customer and internal events that surpass expectations.

Aimée Gill
Design Manager

Aimée Gill

Design Manager

Having originally qualified in art, design and media, I broke into event management over ten years ago and have never looked back. Today, as Design Manager at TTA, I combine my creative flair with my domain knowledge of events management to come up with innovative concepts that will wow our clients from idea to execution. I’m also on an ongoing quest to seek out the best partners in the field, and continually benchmark our suppliers for creativity, quality and value.

Kayli Gore
Account Director

Kayli Gore

Account Director

I bring over 12 years’ experience of understanding the challenges facing our global corporate clients to my role as Account Director at TTA. I have managed a wide variety of global projects from medical congresses to leadership events as part of the TTA team and am passionate about nurturing strong client relationships that underpin exceptional event delivery in partnership. Contributing within a supportive team that looks beyond the obvious to drive innovation for our clients is important to me, and I love that about my role!

Lucie Harris
Senior Project Manager

Lucie Harris

Senior Project Manager

Before joining TTA in early 2014, I spent a decade in international TV and media production for organisations like the BBC, Google and the Discovery Channel. The skills and capabilities I cultivated through managing large scale, high-profile projects, talent and crew have been readily transferrable to TTA and the demands of complex global event management. As a Senior Project Manager, I look after a range of international clients from the healthcare and food sectors.

Elizabeth Kelly
Senior Project Manager

Elizabeth Kelly

Senior Project Manager

With over 15 years within the events industry, I have managed a broad spectrum of congresses, conferences, road shows and incentives from initial planning stages to onsite delivery. My experience spans several sectors, including healthcare, and I particularly enjoy nurturing long term relationships with great clients and their customers. Travelling to more than 60 countries to create lasting live experiences continues to be a great privilege of my role.

Andy King
Digital Solutions Manager

Andy King

Digital Solutions Manager

Joining TTA with an extensive background in customer service and events has enabled me to combine two of my greatest passions – creating memorable experiences and meeting new people. As Digital Solutions Manager, I get to bring to TTA
my biggest loves of all – new technology and strategy. Innovating the way we work and analysing various digital solutions is a key part of my role and I’m a self-confessed “tech watcher”, always looking for new technologies that can benefit our clients’ events.

Sonal Kholia
Senior Project Manager

Sonal Kholia

Senior Project Manager

I am delighted to bring over 10 action-packed years within the events industry to TTA with the past five focused largely on project managing global healthcare and pharma events. With projects ranging in size from 10 to 1,000 plus participants, I also have broad expertise in the hospitality, sporting and wedding sector. In my experience, creating trusting relationships and building rapport with clients underpins the most successful projects and I really enjoy bringing events to life in partnership in a variety of global destinations.

Kimberley Knight
Project Assistant

Kimberley Knight

Project Assistant

Since graduating from university with a first class degree in international event management, I have gained strong customer services and events experience with global organisations including Cartier and Walt Disney in the USA. My role as part of the TTA team gives me scope to build on my international corporate background to look for new ways to really engage with audiences to create lasting impact for our global clients.

Greg Langham
Associate Creative Director

Greg Langham

Associate Creative Director

I have a 15-year background in designing high impact creative solutions for events and experiences and am passionate about creating experiential strategies to drive business change and positively impact performance. My experience includes translating complex client content into simple, key messages that can be conveyed in a way that makes them resonate, and I work alongside TTA’s client service teams throughout the creative process to enhance proposed solutions and support strategic event delivery.

Anne Lee
Business Risk Manager

Anne Lee

Business Risk Manager

My role covers anything that may adversely affect the reputation, safety or prosperity of TTA. Once a risk is identified, “prevention is better than cure”, so processes and procedures need to be in place to ensure we are prepared to deal with any potential threats. The decade I spent as Account Director, combined with my previous life as a lawyer is brought to bear. My lovely colleagues are always gracious and cooperative at audit time!

John Lee
Legal Manager

John Lee

Legal Manager

Combining thirty years as a lawyer with over a decade as TTA’s General Manager and Managing Director I now oversee all the organisation’s legal and regulatory functions. This includes the provision of accurate and relevant advice to colleagues so it’s important to see things from a commercial and strategic perspective as well as knowing the technical legal position. I’d miss the fun and enjoyment of working here too much to retire.

Julie Lewendon
Operations Director

Julie Lewendon

Operations Director

As TTA operations director, my role is incredibly varied and requires my involvement in many aspects of the business to ensure it runs smoothly. I am also in the forefront of TTA client delivery and my foundation of 27 years’ event, hotel and travel management experience at TTA and other leading industry organisations helps me ask the right questions and advise clients on the event solutions that will deliver the best return on their objectives. I’m fastidious about sourcing venues and suppliers at competitive rates and forging collaborative relationships with global partners.

Joshua Luther
Project Assistant

Joshua Luther

Project Assistant

I am a Business and Events Management graduate who has been fortunate enough to have foothold in two very exciting careers. Previously a professional footballer, my life experiences have seen me through various cultures, values and difficulties, and taught me to have a tenacious approach to life. I have keen interest in travel and aim to bring my positive ideas forward to embark on challenges that encourage me to look beyond the obvious for the TTA team, our clients and our partners.

Eleanor Mather
Project Manager

Eleanor Mather

Project Manager

Before joining TTA in spring 2022, I managed a wide range of events mainly in the charity sector from conferences and mass participation events to donor receptions. Bringing the client’s vision to life gets me up in the morning, and career highlights include logistics management for Age UK at Prince Charles’ 70th birthday at Buckingham Palace and a celebrity carol concert at St Paul’s Cathedral. I am very passionate about the events industry and was part of the Fast Forward 15 mentor scheme in 2019/2020.

Nikki Parsons
Client Account Director

Nikki Parsons

Client Account Director

I bring a combination of fresh perspectives and experience in both event management and marketing to the mix at TTA. My international exposure to major public events, high profile product launches and exclusive private events, complements my role as a Project Manager at TTA which is incredibly varied. I greatly enjoy working on all aspects of a project with the TTA team, from conception to completion and value the interaction with clients and colleagues alike, which I believe is key to the effective delivery of events.

Sammi-Jo Philips
Project Manager

Sammi-Jo Philips

Project Manager

Since graduating, my broad events experience has included the delivery of large marketing exhibitions in London, in-house roles with international hotel chains and travelling the globe managing events for life sciences clients. Over the last six years I have developed specialist expertise in the healthcare world of investigator meetings, congresses and customer conferences for leading pharmaceutical companies. Being part of a team that creates a great participant experience is just one of the best feelings and I really can’t imagine enjoying another career more than this.

Sarah Proud
Finance Assistant

Sarah Proud

Finance Assistant

Although new to the TTA team, I bring over 18 years of finance experience with me to help the financial processes and reporting run smoothly. My role entails the overall day to day accounts processing including Purchase Ledger, Expenses, Payroll, VAT and Sales Invoicing to name a few. I work closely with the Financial Director to help create those all-important Management Accounts and a friendly helping hand is always available to any TTA staff needing guidance. An overall thirst for attention to detail, the need for timely reporting combined with a personable nature help forge my way.

Sam Rhodes
Head of Production

Sam Rhodes

Head of Production

My role is to lead the Production department at TTA, encompassing a range of creative, content, technical and digital management services. I entered the industry following a love of theatre and the stage which has led to working globally for leading brand experience agencies, bringing together the people and resources required for the production for a wide range of conferences, launches, celebrations, exhibitions, consumer experiences and major public events.

Heidi Robinson
Senior Project Manager

Heidi Robinson

Senior Project Manager

As a highly experienced event professional, my portfolio spans multiple sectors including IT, healthcare, government, defence and retail. Being part of a wider team and enjoying the quality outcome of all our hard work gets me up in the morning! I have jointly delivered large-scale award-winning exhibition stands, and led on multiple roadshows, festival installs and outdoor sporting activations. A particular highlight was being lucky enough to work with some of the Lionesses in the lead up to their amazing win in the Euro 2022 tournament!

Sylke Robinson
Project Assistant

Sylke Robinson

Project Assistant

Working in the events industry for over 10 years has provided many interesting projects and experiences. I enjoy each intricacy an event brings and often compare the elements of an event to a Rubik’s cube - multi-dimensional, a great deal of concentration and attention needed, colourful and a joy when all the pieces come together. I’m delighted to be part of TTA and I look forward to learning and growing with the team.

Sogand Savadi
Project Manager

Sogand Savadi

Project Manager

After ten years of events management experience across several sectors, I would say the most important thing to me when working on any project is client satisfaction and a positive client experience. There is nothing better than witnessing a project you’ve managed go live and be a success. I enjoy working closely with clients to understand their vision, which in turn motivates me to be creative, forward thinking, push boundaries and deliver high quality solutions. As a passionate people person, it’s important to me to create lasting relationships with clients, partners and peers alike.

Jade Smith
Project Assistant

Jade Smith

Project Assistant

As a relatively recent addition to the TTA team, I bring a combination of fresh perspectives and experience in a wide variety of event management roles to the mix. These include large cultural and community events and a year working as part of the Birmingham Commonwealth games as an operations manager. TTA is an exciting place to be and I’m embracing everything from our great clients to the amazing event and travel opportunities.

Mark Turner
Finance Director

Mark Turner

Finance Director

My role is to lead TTA’s finances and ensure everything runs like clockwork, from sales and purchasing to preparing management and year-end accounts for audit. Internally, my priorities include business and finance planning with the rest of the board, and providing budget training and guidance to account teams. However, our outward-looking approach means I also spend considerable time liaising with clients to ensure our financial systems and processes are efficient and in sync.

Kelley Walker
Senior Project Manager

Kelley Walker

Senior Project Manager

As a people-person, I love being at the heart of the TTA team with responsibility for looking after some super clients with diverse event needs. Over my thirteen years with the company, I have worked on a wide range of projects in the UK and overseas and am a vociferous champion of best practice in customer service. Creating a lasting impression is all in the finishing touches, so I love the nitty-gritty aspects of project management that contribute to the bigger picture of event effectiveness.

Alex Ward
Senior Project Manager

Alex Ward

Senior Project Manager

I am a seasoned events professional with a range of experience coordinating large scale, high risk, and complex events both in the UK and across the world. I love assisting our clients in realising their vision, and making the seemingly impossible, possible. The finer details are where I find events really come alive and working proactively to out-manoeuvre risk is how I tend to approach my projects.

Liz Zutshi
Managing Director

Liz Zutshi

Managing Director

With 15 years’ experience at TTA , most recently as Commercial Director with a remit to explore new growth areas for the company, I am passionate about combining new ideas and innovative event solutions with strong relationships to help solve our clients’ business problems. It’s my job to bring insight, energy and positivity to my leadership role at TTA and I strongly believe in developing and encouraging a strong, open culture so our employees can shine in the process of creating team success.

Meet the team

Charlotte Aries

Project Assistant

Fabienne Bailey

Digital Project Manager

Katie Caldwell

Events Director

Charley Cook

Project Assistant

Katherine Crawford

Senior Project Manager

Jane Farrell

Marketing Director

Dan Forward

Project Assistant

Emma Gardner

Project Assistant

Claire Gibson

Senior Project Assistant

Aimée Gill

Design Manager

Kayli Gore

Account Director

Lucie Harris

Senior Project Manager

Elizabeth Kelly

Senior Project Manager

Andy King

Digital Solutions Manager

Sonal Kholia

Senior Project Manager

Kimberley Knight

Project Assistant

Greg Langham

Associate Creative Director

Anne Lee

Business Risk Manager

John Lee

Legal Manager

Julie Lewendon

Operations Director

Joshua Luther

Project Assistant

Eleanor Mather

Project Manager

Nikki Parsons

Client Account Director

Sammi-Jo Philips

Project Manager

Sarah Proud

Finance Assistant

Sam Rhodes

Head of Production

Heidi Robinson

Senior Project Manager

Sylke Robinson

Project Assistant

Sogand Savadi

Project Manager

Jade Smith

Project Assistant

Mark Turner

Finance Director

Kelley Walker

Senior Project Manager

Alex Ward

Senior Project Manager

Liz Zutshi

Managing Director

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