About Us

The Special Event Company (TSEC) is a strategic event and meeting management company founded in 1986 in London. We've been operating in the US since 1999. Five years ago we moved our headquarters to the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina to be in proximity to several of our key distinguished clients.

TSEC has won or been nominated for over 30 international awards, including 10 awards for events in the RTP region and four awards won in 2009. We are a one-stop shop for event management, meeting services, production, lighting, catering, décor and marketing through our group of companies.

Our focus is to earn the clients' trust through industry knowledge, understanding their business challenges and celebrating their successes with a commitment to partnerships. Our team becomes an extension of the client's in-house team. We are then able to be highly flexible in fulfilling changing requirements throughout the planning and delivery process.

Strategic planning, creative solutions, comprehensive site investigations, flawless administration, careful budget management and seamless execution are some of the methods we employ to produce international award winning events and programs.

Our Team

Sally Webb Berry, CSEP
CEO
sally@specialeventco.com

Sally Webb Berry, CSEP is CEO of The Special Event Company, with offices in North Carolina, USA and London, England. Sally began her event career in 1986 from a background in sports PR and sponsorship.

Her company has won numerous international event management awards for their work including five Special Event Gala awards, nine ISES ESPRIT awards, and five EVIE awards. In addition, Sally was voted ‘International Event Producer of the Year’ by Event Solutions Magazine in 2004. In 2008, Sally received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the European International Special Events Society (ISES).

Over the past two decades, Sally has produced events in over 20 countries throughout Europe, USA and Asia. The Special Event Company delivers live communications through events, meetings and fundraisers for a diverse clientele including companies in financial services, technology, pharmaceuticals, media, sports, education and non-profits.

The company counts organizations such as Duke University, The US Naval Academy, Lenovo, First Citizens Bank, Pepsi, HondaJet, National Hockey League and Teenage Cancer Trust amongst their client base.

Industry leadership and professional development is of key importance. She is a regular lecturer in event management around the world, speaking at numerous conferences and universities including the CIBER program at the University of California at Los Angeles and Temple University in Philadelphia. Sally is also a regular guest lecturer at NC State University and Oxford Brooks in the United Kingdom.

Sally is a founding member and former President of the United Kingdom Chapter of the International Special Events Society, and past Regional Vice President for the Euro-Africa Region. She currently sits on the Certification Committee for ISES and was the first European to obtain the Certified Special Event Planner (CSEP) designation.

She is also past chair of the ISES International Past Leaders Council and was recently reappointed to the advisory board of Special Event Magazine.

Sally resides in Cary, North Carolina and London, England.

Michael Dickerson
CFO
mdickerson@monaghangrp.com

Hunter Gray
Creative Director
hunter@specialeventco.com