Company Profile
CITIZEN EVENTS LLC
Company Overview
This is a company starting in the US by a team who has created and produced very succesful events in Europe, mainly in France, for 20 years.
So if you have ambition and want to be associated in the start-up of a full-scale event company for corporations and major projects, let's meet and discuss things over !
Company History
This company is founded by a team of 2, Roderick & Sandrine:
Roderick Kukurudz, CEO
Age 44
After studying in Paris, Roderick obtained his MBA from UCLA in less than 2 years, at the young age of 24. Shortly thereafter, family obligations called him back to Paris.
Roderick worked for Xerox during his first years in Paris. Shortly thereinafter he started his own event planning company and then initiated the new branch of a special events group in 2003.
For nearly 20 years, Roderick has organized special events and operational campaigns for many renowned international companies such as Xerox, Dell, Microsoft, Kraft Foods, Carrefour, Continent, Schlumberger, IBM, Nortel Networks, Reader’s Digest, HP, Compaq, DIGITAL, World Cup Football 98, De Beers, Guilbert (Office Depot), and many official institutions including cities of Paris, Rheims and Lille, the Ministries of employment, health and public services, the Senate.
It is important to note that all of this would not have been possible without Sandrine, with whom he has managed a creative team for special and citizen events since 1995.
Sandrine Mehrez, Creation Director
Age 39
Sandrine studied Economy at the Pantheon - Sorbonne University. She was first a radio and newspaper journalist for several years. She then joined the strategic planner team at CLM-BBDO, where she stayed for almost 5 years.
In 1995 Sandrine joined Rod’s company to manage the creation team and successfully completed with many successful and unusual events.
Sandrine was one of the youngest executive members of the French Women's Managers Association (Femmes Dirigeantes).
Some spectacular events were organized by this team, such as having Jessye Norman celebrate the last solar eclipse of the Millennium by singing before of a crowd of over 500,000 (in a city of 200,000!) in front of the Rheims Cathedral.
The major French TV Channel (TF1), organized its special live edition around this event, with over 9 Million viewers a Wednesday around noon, + many broadcasts by foreign televisions: USA, Great Britain, Japan, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Israel, a few Arab countries,...
This was considered as ONE OF THE MAJOR EVENTS OF THE YEAR 1999 IN FRANCE
The team also organized in 2001
the FIRST INTERNET TRAIN
Its vocation: to allow a large public (over 100.000 visitors), not very educated on the subject, to discover "Hands-on" Internet and to learn the basics thanks to free training and workshops, every day in another city, during 3 weeks. Over 50.000 people used the Internet for the first time aboard the Internet Train !
The most recent event:
SAMBA SENAT (06-2005)
Its vocation: to allow a large public (over 150.000 visitors in 3 days) to be educated about Brazil’s traditions.
For the Grand Finale, over 13.000 spectators attended an unexpected Live Brazilian Concert in a record audience in the Official Courtyard of the French Senate.
Following some of their most impressive events, they were invited to speak at several National TV & radio shows and give interviews in many magazines.
Notable Clients
TOP 500 CORPORATIONS
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
UNIQUE CONCERT OF DIVA JESSYE NORMAN FOR THE LAST SOLAR ECLIPSE OF THE MILLENIUM : 500,000 SPECTATORS & 57% TV AUDIENCE
BRAZILIAN CONCERT IN THE PRIVATE COURTYARD OF FRENCH SENATE
MICROSOFT BLITZ DAY SCHEMES WITH SALES INCREASED BY MORE THAN 20%
MANY CONVENTIONS - CORPORATE EVENTS - MULTI SPONSOR PUBLIC EVENTS
Benefits
THERE WILL BE BENEFITS - TO BE DEFINED