Scott Larson

Scott spearheads client services and sales for Compass Rose Events. With thirty-two years of industry experience, Scott knows large, corporate events better than anyone, serving the country’s most prominent corporate clients. Having begun his career with the nation’s largest provider of employee-relations events at the time, Scott has worked in all aspects of the business…. Read more »

Brian Long

Brian began his career at Compass Rose Events as an Event Manager and quickly grew into a Senior Project Manager.  In 2014, he took over the company’s operations as Vice President of Operations and became a co-owner. After a successful two years leading the Operations team, Brian moved into the President’s role. His understanding of… Read more »

Neal Jones

As the CFO for Compass Rose Events, Neal spearheads the finance and accounting team.  This includes overseeing day-to-day financial operations, internal and external reporting, budgeting and forecasting, as well as managing banking and creditor relations.  Neal brings extensive experience from large scale manufacturing, retail and various service industries. Neal holds an undergraduate degree from St…. Read more »

Laura Duteau

Laura worked for a fortune 500 company in the electronics and computer field for 15 years with a focus on sales and marketing support, event planning and contract administration before finding her way to the corporate events world with Compass Rose Events. Laura has over 15 years of industry experience supporting CRE as The Nation’s… Read more »

Danielle McMullin

With over 15 years in the hospitality and restaurant industry, Danielle understands the inner workings of delivering a successful event. She started with Compass Rose Events as an Event Manager and worked her way up to VP of Operations. Danielle has been involved in all areas of event implementation, but still manages to get out… Read more »

Sarah Koriath

With over 15 years of experience in the corporate event industry, Sarah has a thorough understanding of Compass Rose Events, and everything it takes behind the scenes to ensure successful events and happy clients. She assists throughout the company with employee relations, branding, standardization, creating efficiencies and improving the technology and tools used to manage… Read more »

Alexandra Farmer

Alexandra joined the CRE team in 2012 as a Project Manager Trainee while also heading out on event sites as an Event Manager. Today, Alexandra works closely with her sales team as Regional Director and prides herself on mentoring her team. She provides expert knowledge, industry experience, relentless energy and commitment to understanding her client’s… Read more »

Brett Ernst

Brett has been in the Event Planning and Production Industry for over ten years and has an extensive background of designing custom tailored events for groups from 300 to 50,000 guests!  As Regional Director, Brett leads a sales team that services fourteen states across the Mid-West and South-West Regions of the country.  He truly understands… Read more »

Hilary Lorrain

Hilary is an accomplished event planner with more than fifteen years of experience in both coordinating and managing the deliveries of top-notch events. A perfectionist at heart, Hilary takes great satisfaction in providing nothing but the highest standards in customer service to her clients. Hilary’s strong sense of professionalism and her ability to craft long-lasting… Read more »

Katy Burkholder

Raised outside of Toledo, Ohio, Katy first started at CRE as one of our hard-working, well-travelled Event Managers back in 2010. She soon joined our sales team as an inside sales representative, eventually earning the title of Senior Project Associate. She balances her time between customer service, sales and behind the scenes assistance, while still… Read more »