I met Karen a number of years ago. One of our Board of Trustee members had connected us with a fundraising event that Karen organized and produced every year for the Mix Audio Foundation at the Malibu Country Club in Malibu, California. Every year, the event was flawless—Karen is a true professional in every way.
This year, Sound Art hired Karen to put on a Casino event at a recording studio in Los Angeles. Again, it was a smash hit in every way. For us, a small non-profit teaching music to inner-city kids in LA, she made the event easy, uncomplicated and a lot of fun for all. The feedback immediately after was that everyone wants to do it again next year. In every detail, the event was a pleasure, with no stress and not one single missed step.
I fully and completely recommend Karen Margroff Dunn and KMD Productions for your entire event planning needs.
Catherine Goldwyn
Executive Director and Founder
Sound Art
Karen Margroff Dunn has been working with Music in Schools Today as an Events Manager since May, 2009. She has shown creativity and effectiveness in communicating with others and accomplishing the tasks necessary to produce three successful events. Karen is able to juggle multiple jobs at once and always meets deadlines even when faced with overlapping events. Notably, Karen demonstrates patience with others and uses humor as a tool to keep everyone around her at ease.
I highly recommend her for any events-related work.
Meg Madden
Executive Director
Music In Schools Today
I am writing you on behalf of Karen Margroff Dunn, with whom I have worked for the past 20 years on numerous nonprofit ventures. During most of that time Karen has reported to me in her capacity of Executive Director of the Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards, an annual event for the pro audio industry presented by the Mix Foundation. Over time, Karen assumed a wide range of duties, beginning as the editor of our program book and later becoming responsible for the management of venue relations (catering, decorating, signage, etc.), handling relations with our nominees and presenters, writing promotional materials and coordinating their production, as well as numerous other specialized tasks.
Karen has also served as Executive Director of the Mix L.A. Open charity golf tournament, which she helped build to prominence in the professional sound industry, managed the Foundation’s office, helped prepare budgets and served as secretary of the board of directors. To say she is adept at juggling numerous duties simultaneously is a vast understatement.
I can unequivocally say that Karen did an excellent job in every capacity in which she served, producing first-rate work, on time and on budget. She is also one of the most personable people I have ever had the pleasure to know, and over the years she became the public face of the TEC Awards and golf tournament, respected and beloved by hundreds of people in our field.
I enthusiastically recommend Karen for any position or project for which her many skills may qualify her. She will be a valuable asset to anyone fortunate enough to retain her services.
Hillel Resner
President, CEO
Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio
Over the past 25 years of being behind the scenes as an engineer in the music industry, I’ve met a lot of people and have seen a lot of changes. Most notable of the changes has been the gradual decline of collaboration amongst the industry players.
That’s why I had the ambitious idea last year to organize and host an industry event that would be a great excuse to bring the people of our industry together to forge new friendships and rekindle those friendships from the past. I decided that a poker charity event was the right way to do it. Within minutes of coming up with the idea for a poker tournament, I knew right away that Karen Dunn was the right person and essential to help me put this together.
Having never organized a major fundraiser/event, I knew I was going to need someone who’s an expert in event production and also knows the people of our community. I have known Karen for many years and have experienced first-hand, the success and pleasure of the golf tournaments and Mix Magazine TEC award events that she was responsible for coordinating. What I know now more than I did back then, is that there’s an incredible amount of work and dedication involved in pulling off a successful event- so having someone who’s ‘been there- done that’ was an important choice, and that’s why I needed Karen.
Karen was right there with me from the beginning. Her experience and connections made the first annual Recording Industry Poker Tournament grow from an idea to a success without any problems. Every detail: food, parking, people, place, budget, notifications, volunteers, decor, promotion, sponsorship, website, press etc., was carefully planned and executed with a great partner, enough so, that the 2nd annual Recording Industry Poker Tournament will be brought to our industry again by Karen and KMD Productions.
Dave Reitzas
Recording Engineer/Mixer/Producer
www.reitzas.com
This letter is a recommendation for Karen Dunn and KMD Productions in regards to her services as an event planner.
Karen and I began working together on a fundraising event I founded in 2008 called Silicon Valley Rocks – a benefit for Music in Schools Today featuring tech professionals who play in bands around the Bay Area.
Given Karen’s connections in the music industry, experience, and excellent reputation, I was incredibly grateful and lucky to have Karen on the team. In its second year, Silicon Valley Rocks! had more ambitious fundraising goals than before.
Because of Karen’s competence and can-do attitude, I felt very comfortable letting go of all the logistics so I could focus more on fundraising. She did a fantastic job from managing the many volunteers to working with venue to providing expert advice on all matters.
We had wonderful feedback on the show, and I really look forward to working with her again. I would gladly recommend Karen Dunn and KMD Productions for your entire event planning needs.
Alison Murdock
Co-Founder/Producer
Silicon Valley Rocks–a 764media company
