Alexander deHilster

Current

Principal at ADH Events

Past

Executive Event Producer at Event Architects
Meeting Planner at MBM Productions
Meeting and Event Planner at Travel New Orleans

Tour Director at Americantours International
Tour Desk, Concierge, Front Desk at Westin Hotels
Data Research Assistant at BTI Communications
Sales Person at Crate & Barrel
Drawback division at Fritz Companies
File Clerk and Front Desk Clerk Pediatrics at Kaiser Permanente
Phone poller at California Democratic Party

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Education

Gooiland Mavo, The Netherlands

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Events Services

Websites

Alexander deHilster’s Summary

EXPERIENCE
ADH Events is a Chicago based meeting management and event planning firm, partnering with in-house corporate and non-profit organizations with the planning of their programs. This allows for the in-house planner more time to focus on the contents of the program, the attendees, presenters, sponsors and internal clients, while we at ADH Events take care of all the associated logistics such as venue and hotel searches, contract negotiations, audio visual needs, catering, decor, entertainment, transportation and more.

Each of the key members at ADH Events have a minimum of 20 years experience in the hospitality, catering, entertainment and meeting and event planning industries, with the balance of the staff a minimum of 10 years.

The majority of ADH Events staff members have an international background, whether they were born in a different country, speaking multiple languages or have lived and/or worked on different continents, with the exception of Antartica.

We're here at ADH Events to make valuable time more productive whether it's planning a board or meetings, training seminars, investigator meetings, pharma meetings, alumni events, diversity retreats, incentive trips, team building events, guest tour programs, client dinners or fundraisers.

Whether your group is just a handful of attendees or 1,500 guests, ADH Events can take care of small portions or your entire program, if it is only the hotel, or F&B and ground transportation, or only AV, entertainment and/or decor and everything in between.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES
At ADH Events we speak a multitude of languages, among them all the European ones, allowing us to plan your programs anywhere.

CLIENTS
ADH Events clients are in healthcare, consulting, property management, banking, insurance, education and non-profit.

CERTIFICATION
In June 2008, ADH Events became certified by the NGLCC, allowing us to be registered as a diversity supplier with Fortune 500 companies.

Alexander deHilster’s Specialties:

Hotel Room Blocks, Audio Visual, Sound, Lighting, Ground Transportation, Food and Beverage, Decor, Special Events, Team Building and Guest Tour Programs: giving back to the community and green programs, sustainable, green, eco friendly meetings.

Alexander deHilster’s Experience

Principal

ADH Events

(Privately Held; Events Services industry)

2006 — Present (3 years )

Alexander and his staff partner with their clients, planning their programs around the globe. Whether it is finding venues or hotels, taking care of all the logistics such as ground transportation or dealing with caterers, decor companies or audio visual, ADH Events takes care of all the details.

It is our beliefs that our clients should be able to focus all their attention on the contents of their programs and the guests attending them and not having to worry about about all the other details, whether guests have been picked up at the airport, the audio visual has been set up and is in working order or if the caterer has served all of the guests in the room.
Executive Event Producer

Event Architects

(Privately Held; Events Services industry)

June 2000 — November 2006 (6 years 6 months)

Producing meetings and events worldwide. Most other programs where investigator meetings, phase I and II meetings and other pharma meetings in places such as Nice and Paris, France, Monaco, Wroclaw, Poland, New York, Philadephia, Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles
Meeting Planner

MBM Productions

(Events Services industry)

July 1999 — May 2000 (11 months)

First as a freelance planner while living in New Orleans and full-time once I moved to Chicago. Planned only Pharmaceutical meetings in places such as Los Angeles, Pasadena, Laguna Beach, Orlando, Scottsdale, Miami and Montreux, Switzerland
Meeting and Event Planner

Travel New Orleans

(Events Services industry)

June 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 3 months)

Coordinated mainly pharmaceutical meetings, whether they were one or multiday programs, in the New Orleans area or in surrounding states.
Tour Director

Americantours International

(Privately Held; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

December 1989 — April 1999 (9 years 5 months)

Conducting two and three week Over-The-Road tours with Europeans and Australians throughout the United States and Canada during which not only history and geology where brought up but also how living in America works, from oil drilling, timber industry and car manufacturing to ira's, 401ks, social security and how to buy a house. Some of my specialties were Native Americans and how each part of this great country was created according to their stories and a food and beverage (culinary and liquid - alcoholic and non-alcoholic) journey through America.
Tour Desk, Concierge, Front Desk

Westin Hotels

(Public Company; Hospitality industry)

January 1995 — January 1997 (2 years 1 month)

Booking tour groups and room assignments, assisted with the concierge desk, worked at the front desk and trained front desk staff
Data Research Assistant

BTI Communications

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

October 1987 — May 1989 (1 year 8 months)

Data research for their satelite division, at that time called McDonnell Douglas
Sales Person

Crate & Barrel

(Privately Held; Retail industry)

May 1987 — May 1989 (2 years 1 month)

Sales person in Santa Clara and San Francisco, California
Drawback division

Fritz Companies

(Public Company; Logistics and Supply Chain industry)

May 1988 — November 1988 (7 months)
File Clerk and Front Desk Clerk Pediatrics

Kaiser Permanente

(Non-Profit; Hospital & Health Care industry)

September 1986 — October 1987 (1 year 2 months)
Phone poller

California Democratic Party

(Political Organization industry)

September 1986 — November 1986 (3 months)

During the Larouche AIDS initiative asking voters to vote no on proposition 64

Alexander deHilster’s Education

Gooiland Mavo, The Netherlands

Foreign Languages and History

Additional Information

Alexander deHilster’s Websites:

Alexander deHilster’s Groups:

BABC, NAF, IVCC, WWTC, NGLCC

International Export N Import
NLBorrels - the Dutch Expat Network
The Dutch Connection
BIO International Convention
Global Worker
Expat Network
Creating Results from Cultural Diversity
International Business
German-American Relations
Out Professionals
Global Sourcing
Friends of the European Union
The Netherlands
LGBT Professional Network - Global
Washington International Trade Association
Diversity and Cross Cultural Professionals
LGBT Professionals
Austria Business and Professional Network
NETWORK IN TURKEY
Gay and Lesbian Business Leaders
The Diversity and Inclusion Group
Travel & Tourism Industry Professionals Worldwide
Event Managers Around the world
German American ExecuNet
Nederlanders - Dutch Worldwide Club
GLBT Professionals Netherlands
Swiss Business Club
Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners
Dutch professionals working abroad
Meeting & Conference Planners International
ILGA International Lesbian and Gay Association
workingOUT
GLBT Professionals (and Friends)
Out & Equal Workplace Advocates
NAF-BIZ
IGLCC International Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
Expat Focus
International Networking Week 2010
National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
PROFESSIONALS WINNING ACROSS BORDERS ▪ PWAB ▪ International & Diverse Network of 160+ Countries
International Business Club Chicago
NAF-BIZ New York
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Turkish-Dutch Professionals Network
De Nederlandsche Bank
TURKISH BUSINESS NETWORK
European Entrepreneurship & Innovation @ Silicon Valley
ATI _ AmericanTours International
British-American Business Council, Chicago