About Us
Partnerships and Collaboration at Every Turn
Angel Hanson, CMP, CMM
CEO (Chief Event Officer), Angel Events
Pandemic Compliance Advisor Certified
Angel has over 26 years experience in hospitality and events industries. She led internal and external in-person and hybrid events for Microsoft for 12 years and has served on event teams for various industries, including travel agencies, airlines, hotels, and third-party event management companies. She has gathered a team of over-achieving experts along the way and decided to launch Angel Events to bring their proven successful track record and combined value to more and more clients. She’s decided to launch her own venture, Angel Events to share this brilliant gift with the industry.
In any event, there are hundreds of duties and responsibilities, myriad team members and untold possible conflicts. Angel keeps every tiny detail top-of-mind while balancing a big picture overview. The buck stops with her. She takes responsibility for everything, and creates a collaborative, calm, cool, and effective team atmosphere that minimizes client stress and maximizes desired outcomes.
Angel has always focused on audience experience, so she asked her clients to describe what she does. Here are the answers she received:
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Cool under pressure. Cooler under more pressure. Super cool under super pressure.
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Creative AND organized (those two qualities don’t usually exist in one person)
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Rises to the challenge. Or better, rises to ANY challenge and finds a solution.
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Able to leap tall demands and last minute requests in a single bound.
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There are multi-taskers and then there’s Angel. A multi-multi-tasker.
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Inspires loyalty, inspires above-and-beyond delivery, inspires cooperation and a solution-oriented mindset in her team, AND in everyone else.
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Earns trust and repays it with interest.
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Seamless planning. Seamless delivery. If I’ve learned anything in all the events we’ve done together, it’s this. Get Angel involved early and your event will run ever so smoothly. And, EVERYONE’S job will be easier.
Meet Our Team
James Phillips
Contagious
Collaborative
Energy
Nancy Apthorp
Strategic
Program
Manager
Jerry
Green
Holistic
Analytical
Management
René
De Freitas
Communicative
Analytical
Development
Anna Lauris
Boynton
Supportive
Communication
Coach
Splyce
Energetic
Musical
Enhancement
Ken
Boynton
Big
Picture
Storyteller
We are Certified Pandemic Compliance Advisors
As more face-to-face events resume, health protocols need to be considered in every stage of planning. Efforts to establish best practices and ensure that they are being followed bring a new set of responsibilities to the process, from the earliest stages of venue selection through post-event follow-up. We are here to ensure best practices for the safest execution of your in-person events, such as sanitation, F & B design, delivery and considerations to traffic flow.
We specialize in Venue contract negotiations to ensure your attendees safety and health protocols are included, we create customized pre-event surveys to gauge your attendees comfort levels of attending online and in-person. We create documentation to support the protocols such as communications strategy plan, Duty of Care, Pandemic Code of Conduct and Health Security plan.
James Phillips
Contagious
Collaborative
Energy
JAMES PHILLIPS
Director of Event Logistics and Experience Production
Synaxis Marketing
James has extensive experience in high-visibility global event environments, guiding projects from concept to launch that drive revenue and brand loyalty. He is a positive, calm and collaborative team player and natural leader, who fosters warm relationships with vendors and cross-functional teams at any and all levels. He nails his responsibilities but has knowledge of (and great respect for) everyone else. He’s ready to step in and help at a moment’s notice, from moving scenery on the MainStage to diving under the reg desk to retrieve a dropped phone.
On-time. On-budget. On message. You name it, James is on it. He’s the king of optimal outcomes, who inspires team members to say things like, “James' eye for detail, impeccable customer service and willingness to learn, help and bolster a team were valuable assets for my company. I specifically recruited James after having the pleasure of working with him, and he and I managed clients and partnered together for three years. It was my pleasure and privilege to do so.”
NANCY APTHORP
Chief of Shenanigans and Tomfoolery, Angel Events LLC.
Program Management – Communications, Synaxis Marketing
Event strategy leadership | experience design, vendor & stakeholder relationships, community, social amplifications & communications
Over 20 years at Microsoft leading healthy and happy teams, creating clarity through well-defined strategy, and generating energy with a strong sense of collaboration. As timelines and client requests inevitably shift, Nancy’s focus on successful outcomes remains constant. Her teams want attendees to have fun! To learn, to engage deeply, and to remember and evangelize their great experiences. So she creates and maintains positive, stress-free teams that deliver a methodology proven time and time again in a couple of decades landing massive global programs and events with best in class results.
Nancy enjoys the challenges, and creates partnerships with team members, clients, and vendors that rise to meet them together. Her philosophy is simple: We operate in a single community that only succeeds if we work together.
“I’ve worked with Nancy on multiple projects over the years and she has unmatched leadership skills. She’s a pleasure to work with and she leads by example. I can always rely on the fact that Nancy is there to support my team’s efforts as well as push us to be our best.”
“Any organization would benefit from the expertise and professionalism of Nancy Apthorp. She’s a true leader in her field, and inspires us all to be our best.”
Nancy Apthorp
Strategic
Program
Manager
Jerry
Green
Holistic
Analytical
Management
JERRY GREEN
Masters in Speech Communication (Organizational Leadership)
Business Operations, Angel Events LLC.
Jerry was born and raised in San Francisco and grew up in the age of personal computing. That gave him a passion for not only technology but for what technology can help us do.
Perhaps because of his childhood proximity to Silicon Valley, he’s been equally at home working with startups and global technology companies. He also spent time in Los Angeles, working with a large Corporate Communication company, and his experience has produced that rare quality of understanding the tech and being able to communicate with everyone.
He takes a holistic approach to solve problems for his clients, balancing both quantitative and qualitative analysis, with a keen eye for identifying and solving real-world business challenges.
He can be a start-to-finish program manager or rappel down into the fray when the going gets rough and somebody needs to perform triage.
His work with Angel and her team has created strong, efficient business relationships that know how to listen to their clients, act in their clients’ best interest, and make it all look easy.
RENÉ DE FREITAS
René has over 16 years’ experience in the event industry, but her love for the drama, the challenges and the perfect execution of events started way before then when she was living in her native South Africa. Prior to moving to the US, she worked in the Middle East and South Africa for a well-known car manufacturer in areas of Sales Planning, Special Projects and Corporate Planning. She now calls the US home and has found her passion in events. She has grown her knowledge of the event industry through working in the event trenches and honing her skills by developing and writing process documents for various Tier 1 Events.
René is an experienced manager in planning, development, and executing at scale business programs and managing multiple areas within events. She is recognized for exceptional process management, deep analytical expertise and execution qualities that drive results across multiple groups and domains. Detail orientated and problem solver, able to analyze business scenarios and opportunities and translate them into actions in improving management process, policies, and plans. Strong communications skills in engaging different audiences, including executives, and always focused on the customers’ success.
René
De Freitas
Communicative
Analytical
Development
Anna Lauris
Boynton
Supportive
Communication
Coach
ANNA LAURIS BOYNTON
Onsite Confidence Monitor/Communication Coach
Being a communication coach is the culmination of my lifelong experience as an observer of humans in front of audiences. I was born into a family of professional actors, directors, and educators and spent my childhood and young adulthood watching people as they honed their crafts and communicated with each other on and off stage as actors, directors, artists, and teachers. Once I add my own professional career as a theatrical performer, educator and researcher, I have earned well over Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hours.I use this theatrical background as a starting point, and since 2003 have translated basic acting skills and communications modalities for the worlds of technology and business. I have an MFA in Theatre Arts, a BFA in Theatre Arts and a minor in Sociology.
SPLYCE
With an explosive career spanning nearly two decades, Splyce has continued to be the secret weapon for the biggest and most exclusive events across the globe. From intimate gatherings to headlining performances Inside the largest arenas in Las Vegas, Splyce custom tailors each event to his client's desires, making sure to deliver the perfect atmosphere and energy for each occasion. Splyce is consistently the go-to DJ for the biggest companies in the world, including Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Verizon, HBO, Starbucks, Gucci, Adidas, and many more. He's DJ'd private events for/with The President Of The United States, Leonardo DiCaprio, Eddie Murphy, Kanye West, The Kardashians, Janet Jackson, The Rolling Stones, Earth Wind, and Fire, Ne-Yo, Pitbull, Billy Idol, and more. His recent travels for performances include destinations such as St. Moritz, Switzerland, Rome, Italy, London, England, Japan, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Aruba, Jamaica, Antigua, Maui, Las Vegas, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, San Francisco, Seattle, Dallas, Nashville, Cancun, Cabo San Lucas, West Palm Beach, Florida, New York, Boston, and more, on a near-weekly basis. His performances include corporate events, holiday parties, weddings, birthday parties, movie premieres, fashion shows, nightclub shows, and festivals. Splyce always makes sure to allow time in his schedule to donate his services to organizations which he believes in such as The Wounded Warriors Project, Operation Mend, Autism Speaks, Shane's Inspiration, UCLA's Dance Marathon raising money and awareness for HIV/Aids, and other great organizations and events. Splyce's goal has always been to be as easy to work with as possible, putting the client first and treating every client equally. He aims for long term, lasting relationships, and he understands the value of open communication and Integrity. He loves what he does and is happy to be involved with all different events, big and small. He's been featured on TV numerous times with one of his biggest appearances as a guest on CNN's Larry King Live captioned "Hollywood's Disk Jockey To The Stars" which aired in 210 countries around the world. This came Just a few months before he performed at the Official GRAMMY Celebration for over 6000 guests. He's been on VH1, Fox, MTV, El Entertainment Television, WETV, and most recently played himself on the new television show S41NT. He's been featured In US Weekly Magazine, Star Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and was awarded "BEST NEW DJ" by Los Angeles Magazine's Best Of LA Issue. Naturally, Splyce's experiences have allowed him to go above and beyond playing great music. His specialty Is to customize his sets to the exact audience he's playing for, adjusting accordingly when he sees fit. Pulling from his deep knowledge of music and multi-genre open format talents, audiences respond with an addiction to his performances. He Feels the pulse of the culture like so few DJ's can. As its his nature, Splyce would be honored to perform at your upcoming event.
"He worked the party for us, he's tremendous." CNN's Larry King Live.
Splyce
Energetic
Musical
Enhancement
Ken
Boynton
Big
Picture
Storyteller
KEN BOYNTON
Keeper of the Story, Weaver of the Red Thread
I have a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and have written, directed, acted in, voiced, and performed thousands of stories around the world. I’ve served as Creative Director for executive keynotes and corporate events in the US and Europe. I’ve published a book—Blip—written many keynote presentations, hundreds of commercials, countless videos, numerous sketches, web content, and a bunch of songs and lyrics. I’ve won an Emmy® for lyrics and an IABC award for corporate communication, as well as a couple of Tellys for acting and a Mercury voiceover award...
My Sundance-featured short film played on screens around the world and won numerous awards. I’ve also performed as a stand-up comedian, a singer/guitarist, a corporate presenter, and a commercial and video voiceover talent. As an actor, I’ve worked in film, TV, and lots of games. I apparently have voiced more characters in the original HALO series than any other actor on the planet—IMDb.
All of this experience has helped me to not only recognize great stories but also how to write them, tell them, produce them…and perhaps above all…find them.
Meet Our Partners
These are our carefully chosen vendors and event production partners... At Angel Events, we choose to align ourselves with partners who produce industry-leading products and experiences and these companies have proven themselves as some of the top in the industry.
