Mike Underwood

About Mike Underwood

We are a creative Corporate Event Planning and Destination Management Company (DMC) based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We partner with select clients, building a strategy that aligns their attendees with their goals, while treating everyone to exceptional levels of service.Founder Mike Underwood began his professional career as a Milwaukee event planner 22 years ago. Honing his signature approach to strategizing, planning and overseeing global events for large corporations and nonprofits, he founded Underwood Events in 2009.The past two decades, Underwood has planned and managed hundreds of corporate events in the US and abroad including annual meetings, sales kickoffs, conferences, awards dinners, training seminars and employee celebrations for iconic organizations including Anheuser Busch, Artisan Partners, Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Home Shopping Network, Rexnord, Strong Financial Corporation and the University of Nebraska.Our firm\'s extensive knowledge of the Midwest’s most interesting and popular attractions also places us among the most creative Destination Management Companies Milwaukee, Madison or Chicago has to offer.Your events should celebrate your people and the success they create together. Themes like human achievement and organizational excellence inspire the execution we’ll bring to your event. And it will look amazing, too.

Experience

1. President

   Underwood Events

   Nov 2009 — Present

   Underwood Events is a full-service Corporate Event Planner and Meeting Planner with Destination Management services known for programs that magnify brands and communicate messages. Partnering with select clients, we build innovative strategies that align our clients’ participants and goals to produce experiences that are consistently on-point, on-time, and on-budget.

Education

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Bachelor of Arts

  1990 — 1996

Skills

• Marketing
• Strategic Planning
• Sales
• Leadership
• Social Media Marketing
• Integrated Marketing
• Marketing Communications
• Team Building
• Management
• Event Planning
• Marketing Strategy
• Trade Shows
• Event Management
• Meeting Planning
• Customer Service
• Social Media
• Public Speaking