Grace Noest
Projects Director
First Gig:
The Police, Brighton Arena, 1985!
Proudest moment of your event career so far:
Leading the team that delivered Her Majesty The Queen’s 90th Birthday celebrations – 10,000 people on The Mall, a magical parade and the first ever full Royal Family ‘walk about’, all live on the BBC and watched my millions across the world!
Favourite event you’ve worked on:
The Patron’s Lunch 2016
Grace has over 20 years’ experience working within the sports, entertainment, sponsorship and events sector. Starting her professional career at Craigie Taylor International, she spent 7 years gaining extensive international sponsorship and events experience. Whilst there she worked on numerous high profile global programmes and projects, including the Volvo Ocean Race and GBR Challenge for The Americas Cup, Vodafone’s sponsorship of The Derby, and Famous Grouses’ sponsorship of the Scotland Rugby Team and The Open Golf. Grace left agency life to become International Events Director at De Beers Group, where she had direct input into the global marketing plan with specific focus on delivering a wide range of strategic local and global events. In her 4-year tenure, Grace delivered international programmes across the world, leading an events team that set the standard for luxury brand events and execution in a broad range of venues and territories. Grace joined SEL UK as Project Director in March 2015. She led the creation, implementation and delivery of The Patron’s Lunch, a national celebration of Her Majesty The Queen’s 90th Birthday, developing close stakeholder relationships with The Royal Household, GLA, The Metropolitan Police, BBC and Partners to name but a few. Grace has recently joined Loud Sound full time and brings her wealth of experience to the company with specific focus on driving the business forward and the management of large scale events.
