Team
Our full-time staff of event management and marketing professionals is supported by a team of part-time experts from around the world. Além\'s success is predicated on one criterion -- the absolute satisfaction of our clients. Everything we do flows from that single premise. We are obsessive about quality, precision and customer service and it all begins with our staff -- we hire only the best.
Steven McCarthy, Chairman and CEO
Steven is the Chairman and Chief Executive officer of Além International Management and has been involved in the event management, hospitality and development industry for more than 30 years. He has extensive Olympic experience and has personally been involved with every Olympic Games and Torch Relay since 1996, including being the Director of the Relays for Atlanta 1996; Salt Lake City 2002 and Athens in 2004 (the first ever around the world Olympic Torch Relay). He and members of the original Além team have worked on various components of media operations, logistics, hospitality, competition services and security for OCOG\'s, Federations, NOC\'s and sponsors around the world and oversaw the creation of the first \"best practices manual\" for the IOC on Torch Relays. Além produced the Torch Relay and other elements of the Pan American Games 2007, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and continued the torch relay \"management franchise\" through the development of a standardized operating protocol for design and execution of place and re-branding strategies in emerging markets. With extensive field operations and analysis background and an intimate knowledge of international relations and diplomacy, Steven provides discreet and unique expertise in geopolitical and social risk management and market activation for clients and partners around the globe. A fourth generation Coloradoan, educated in International Relations, Economics and Law, Steven has worked and traveled in more than 100 countries and all 50 of the United States.