Rachel Wright

thewright.site

Your freelance partner for: 
◾ Event Strategy & Design
◾ Event Coordination 
◾ Event Moderation

Freelance Event Design, Coordination & Moderation

Celbretti 

I leveraged Design Thinking to start a luxe picnic service and transformed it into an events agency. Clients included: HelloFresh, Zalando, HubSpot, BCG, and more

Founder & Events Organizer

Flix

- Optimized HR knowledge management through the design and launch of a SharePoint hub, centralizing HR resources for 80+ employees across 19 markets (2,000+ visits over 6 months).

- Creation of Flix Benefits Hub (SharePoint) providing 3,000 Flixies in 19 markets with an overview of their global & local benefits.

Senior HR Project Manager & Communications Specialist

SkaleUp

- Led financial strategy & restructuring during a liquidity crisis within the agency, minimizing operational costs while maintaining service delivery.

Interim CEO

- Created a performance management framework that lead to the redistribution of work to high-performing team members, resulting in improved efficiency and customer satisfaction.

- Saved the CEO 15 hours/ week from the first month of employment by completely taking over agency recruitment work. Defined the recruiting process/ templates; actively sourced 20 team members (including 3 Head profiles).

Head of People Operations

Zalando

- Served as PMO and Communications Lead for the 2018 Performance Management Cycle. Efforts supported 90% of employees gathering 3+ pieces of feedback, laying the foundation for better quality feedback and performance decisions.

- Contributed to hitting a company-wide OKR with the delivery of an internal communications campaign which resulted in 70% of employees reporting that they understood the connection between strategy and the updated company values after one quarter.

HR Project Manager & Communications Specialist

Managed the delivery of creative projects with a focus on Employer Branding activations.

Global Project Manager - Creative Lab

media consulta: world of ideas!

- Led a cross-functional team to deliver two Europe-wide awareness campaigns for the European Commission's Directorate-General for Enlargement, each with a budget of over €1 million. 

- Wrote new business pitches in response to tenders, securing two successful pitches worth a total of €2.5 million.

Account Manager & PR Consultant

Helping teams connect with creative & convenient events in Berlin.

Great events don’t just happen - they’re designed! 



In a digital-first world, I believe face-to-face moments still hold unmatched power. 
I craft in-person events that bring people together in meaningful, memorable ways—each one rooted in purpose and shaped by the unique culture and goals of the team behind it.

Guided by Design Thinking and fueled by curiosity, I blend my background in communications and HR with creative inspiration from art, cities, and human connection. 

The result? 

Events that feel intentional, inspiring, and perfectly aligned with your vision.

Here are the ways I can help you:

▪ Event Design & Strategy
▪ Event Coordination
▪ Event Moderation

Interested? Check out my website for client stories and more details about my services and prices.

Founder & Managing Director

Are you looking for a way to connect and celebrate with your team in Berlin? 
Check out celbretti.com for catered team event formats that are memorable & convenient.

Breuninger

Senior Software Engineer

Choco

Choco is on a mission to build a connected global food system. Our team of 400+ committed Chocorians is active in the US, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Spain. Our ordering app is used by over 15K buyers and over 10K suppliers around the globe - bringing our annual order volume to an estimated $1 billion. 

Just a year after our $63.7 million Series A funding round, we secured an additional $100 million in Series B funding. In April of 2022, we gained another $111 million in Series B2 funding with a valuation of $1.2 billion - earning us unicorn status just a few years in.

Backed by leading investors like G squared, Insight Partners, LeftLane Capital, Coatue Management, and Bessemer Venture Partners, we’re committed to solving the problem of how to move food around the globe transparently, sustainably, and without waste.

Tech Lead

ThoughtWorks

Car manufacturer [December 2020 – now]

Fabian works as Co-TechLead and Developer in a cross-functional software delivery team building a webapp for car owners to interact with their connected cars. Leveraging Continuous Delivery and owning all parts of the infrastructure the team iteratively improves the product and thereby the digital car ownership experience.

(Angular, Java, Spring Boot, Redis, Buildkite, Docker, AWS, Terraform)

Senior Consultant Developer

Intralogistics provider [April 2019 – November 2020]

Fabian led the initiative to create an API for big Fleet Management customers. The team delivered a small MVP within three months and then evolved the API towards a platform that multiple teams use to provide their business capabilities.
Before that he was part of a team building the “core” services for the Fleet Management product. This included the micro frontend composition layer, authentication, authorization and license services and retrieval of all the data from SAP.

(React, TypeScript, Golang, Java, Postgres, Concourse CI, AWS, Terraform)


Wholesale retailer [February 2018 – March 2019]

Fabian joined a platform team working on deployment and infrastructure services used by more than 80 development teams. He got asked to become tech lead of the team and helped the team reduce technical complexity to improve their services.
Fabian started as a frontend developer working on an internal Site Reliability Engineering tool which helped other development teams set and track Service Level Objectives in order for the organization to make informed decisions on reliability and innovation.

(React, Golang, Cassandra, Jenkins, Google Cloud, Kubernetes)

Consultant Developer

vaamo Finanz AG

Starting out as a working student Fabian helped the marketing team launch campaigns on the website and implemented a complete relaunch with the product team and founders. Learning more about frontend development he joined the engineering team full-time. Thriving in a nurturing company culture Fabian worked on all parts of the technology stack taking ownership of the products Vaamo built.

(HTML, SCSS, JavaScript, React, Scala, Semaphore CI, AWS)

Frontend Developer

Tech Lead with 8 years of experience across full-stack software development, Lean and Agile practices and technical leadership.
Started and successfully delivered key strategic initiatives enabling businesses execute on their mission.

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