Karrie Goldberg

Karrie Goldberg is the brainchild behind The Kagency, a one-stop shop for event planners and marketers, representing over 300 one-of-a-kind venues in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Miami. Venues range from notable nightclubs to galleries, private residences to photography studios, and both raw and outdoor spaces. Founded in 2004, Karrie and her team use their hospitality, experiential marketing and branding backgrounds, as well as industry-wide contacts, to represent and market these venues, generating business from private dinners to large-scale product launches and everything in between.

The Kagency carved out its niche in location representation with a laser focus on client satisfaction and customer service. From there, the portfolio grew quickly and organically. In addition to offering venue clients seamless booking solutions, The Kagency also consults on venue build-outs, sales and marketing strategies, internal systems development, event-related media buying, and other tangible revenue-generating activities.

The Kagency is in the sole position to uniquely assist brands with brand building by supplying producers with a wide array of environments to reflect their vision. The client list ranges from corporate leaders like American Express, Microsoft and Conde Nast Publications to fashion-forward brands like Nike, Diesel, Sephora, Calvin Klein, Maserati, and creative powerhouses like Ogilvy and Young & Rubicam.

In 2008, Karrie expanded the company’s portfolio by founding a talent booking division, representing top-tier DJ talent like supermodel Eve Salvail, Cielo-owner and resident DJ Nicolas Matar, Duran Duran drummer Roger Taylor, Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols, and more. The company’s well-established network led to international bookings, from Abu Dhabi to Brazil, from Ibiza to Japan, and even White House Congressional dinners.

Karrie is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a degree in accounting and a minor in Japanese. While her charitable activities are numerous through the company, her personal time is spent with The Breast Treatment Task Force (BTTF), a New York-based non-profit that facilitates free breast cancer screenings and treatment for patients without insurance.