A podcast series cohosted by Mission’s founder Karina Givargisoff, and singer song writer of the UK band Texas, Sharleen Spiteri.
This week we sat down with Olga Iserlis, founder and CEO of Adagio Events. Iserlis has 20 years of experience in business and event planning and the high-profile client list to match: she’s worked with Prada, Ferrari, American Express, and many more, and is regularly featured on the Tatler 300 list of Singapore’s Most Powerful Elite. In 2016, she released Save the Date, a coffee table book that goes behind the scenes of the event-planning industry and documents her creative process.
In this episode, Karina Givargisoff and Sharleen Spiteri spoke to Olga about her work as Singapore’s go-to event planner, the country’s cultural depth and how philanthropic events, although grave, should always be both jovial and memorable.
FIND OLGA
Personal: @eventsbyolga
Website: adagio.events
FIND MISSION HOSTS
Karina: @missionmagazine
Sharleen: @sharleenspiteri
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