InnovativEvents Team

Emily Giunta – Office Manager

Emily Giunta is our most recent addition. She is researches options for events and productions, addresses clients’ needs and requests, communicates with talent, vendors and service providers, and prepares proposals and contracts.

She recently moved back to Iowa after living in Phoenix, AZ for nearly 9 years. Emily has 8 years of experience in several areas including manufacturing and operations. She was a purchasing supervisor for a window manufacturer for 3 years and was responsible for $1.5 million of inventory. Emily also facilitated biannual physical inventory for the plant. Building relationships with suppliers and other departments was a main focus. Before that Emily was a buyer and master scheduler for a slot machine manufacturer. She also assisted with marketing and promotions of new slot machines in casinos. Prior to moving to Arizona she was an event coordinator for the World Food Prize in Des Moines, IA. This is where she and Tracy met and worked together on the annual Awards Ceremony events. 
 

Chuck Heitbrink, Sales Manager

Chuck comes to InnovativEvents, Inc. with over 30 years in the meeting and event services arena. Before joining I.E., Chuck was V.P. of sales for several years at Sysco Foods of Iowa and was responsible for planning and implementing numerous large vendor shows, sales meetings, and handling sales territories. During that time he was a client of both Happy Occasions and InnovativEvents.

Chuck focuses on relationship building and growing the client to new and exciting avenues for their events. Chuck has handled events from every aspect and is particularly good at the details and the catering areas of events. Chuck is responsible for 20 shows.
 

Peggy Wright – Production Manager

Peggy was hired to help develop the Happy Occasions balloon business, and was a specialist in large mainframe and frameless balloon sculptures. As the company grew she began building props for large-scale events. Now more than 13 years later, she is still working with the same management team. She supervises on-site event staff and manages inventory in the warehouse. As production manager Peggy oversees the construction and purchasing of props, creates schedules for the crew and organizes pickups and returns of the rental equipment. Peggy works closely with the sales staff to ensure a client's vision comes to fruition. She successfully juggles myriad responsibilities, including researching products and entertainment and development of processes and procedures that help to streamline various elements of the company. During her 13 years at Happy Occasions and InnovativEvents, Inc., Wright has developed strong relationships with vendors that enable our company to produce the highest quality products at the most reasonable rates.