References

Projects (Selection)

3 M

  • Board meeting; organisation and coordination of a 2-day social programme
Aspen Institute Berlin

  • Complete organisation of different events, including international board meeting with reception, concert, dinner and cultural programme at Charlottenburg Palace
Alcan Deutschland GmbH

  • Organisation of a 2-day social programme for 20 international guests including evening events such as an “Old Berlin” evening and a river cruise
Altana Pharma AG

  • Organisation of a 3-day social programme with evening events for 30 international guests  during the IQM Meeting
  • Organisation of a social programme with evening events for 100 international guests during a multi-day management conference
  • Organisation of the opening event of the Berlin head office with a gala evening in the DZ Bank for 300 distinguished guests
Axel Springer Verlag

  • Organisation and coordination of a 2-day social programme for 40 international guests during the ITMA Conference
Boston Consulting Group

  • Planning and organisation of various sightseeing programmes in Berlin and Potsdam, including a scavenger hunt, for 500 international employees during the World Wide Officers Meeting 
Beiersdorf Hellas AG

  • Organisation of a management conference and 3-day social programme, including a visit to Autostadt Wolfsburg and exclusive evening events in the Spandau Citadel, the Berlin Aquarium and the Chamäleon Varieté Theatre
BMW AG

  • Organisation of an international conference on sustainability in the DZ Bank for 300 guests, including coordination of technical equipment, interpreters and recording equipment
  • Organisation of a farewell gala for the chairman of the board of BMW, Eberhard von Kuenheim, for 50 guests in the Egyptian Museum 
Continental AG

  • Launch event with a 5-day social programme in Berlin and Potsdam with outdoor events in Motzen for 100 international guests
CINVEN

  • Gala evening with cultural programme in the Alte Nationalgalerie for 40 international investors
Center for Strategic Decision Research

  • Planning, organisation and coordination of various events over the years, such as a 2-day sightseeing programme in Berlin and Potsdam, including a visit to the Federal Chancellery and evening programme for 100 international guests
CSO Chicago Symphony Orchestra

  • Organisation and coordination of a variety of exclusive sightseeing programmes and receptions during the Berliner Festtage for the patrons of  the CSO in collaboration with R. Crusoe; annually since 1995 
Deutsch Britische Gesellschaft

  • Organisation of the Königswinter Conference in Potsdam with 60 international attendees, including lunch at the Schlosshotel Cecilienhof 
Deutsche Bank AG

  • Assisted with the organisation of the incentive programme for the World Post Event  for 300 international managers and the First Choice Event programme
  • Complete organisation of the social programme for the annual CFO Round Table Meetings, including an exclusive programme in the Liebermann Villa, Akademie der Künste and Alte Nationalgalerie
Eucolait – European Association of Dairy Trade

  • Planning, organisation and coordination of a 3-day social programme for 100 international guests
Fédération Internationale de La Filterie

  • Organisation of a social programme with evening events for 60 international guests
Herbert Quandt Stiftung

  • Organisation of an evening event for 100 international guests at the Aquarium at Berlin’s Zoologischer Garten during the Europa Forum Berlin
  • Organisation of an evening event in the Marble Hall at the Palais am Festungsgraben for 100 international guests (official event with two heads of state)
Henkel AG

  • Organisation and coordination of an incentive sightseeing programme for 120 guests
HochTief

  • Organisation of the millennium celebration on the 25th floor of the Sony Center with 200 invited guests
Honeywell GmbH

  • Diverse individual and exclusive sightseeing tours in the science and media city Adlershof during an international management conference in collaboration with Amex
International Dairy Foundation

  • Organisation of several sightseeing programmes for 1,500 international attendees of the World Dairy Summit 
Institut für Mobilitätsforschung

  • Organisation of an expert conference on projected mobility behaviour in 2025 in the German Museum of Technology with 300 experts and a press conference
  • Organisation of an expert conference in the DZ Bank with 300 attendees and an evening event in the aviation hall of the Museum of Technology
  • Organisation of a conference for the scenario project “The Future of Mobility” with 300 experts and the CEOs of BMW AG, Deutsche Bahn and Deutsche Lufthansa AG
  • Organisation of an international expert conference including social programme for 50 international guests in collaboration with the University of Birmingham
  • Organisation of the gala founding event of the institute in Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art with 300 guests
KPMG

  • Organisation of several sightseeing programmes in Berlin and Potsdam during the Alumni Partner Meeting 2008
  • Planning and complete organisation of 10 different sightseeing programmes for 700 international guests during the German Partners Meeting 2007
  • Planning for a cultural weekend programme in celebration of the reopening of the Alte Nationalgalerie, including a 2-day social programme and exclusive events in the Egyptian Museum and the Marble Hall
  • Planning and complete organisation of a 5-day social programme for 750 international partners during the International Partners Conference
  • Organisation of the social programme and exclusive evening events in the Egyptian Museum and Quartier 206 during the European Board Meeting
Lions-Club Ludwigsburg-Monrepos

  • Complete organisation and coordination of a multi-day sightseeing and social programme in Berlin and Potsdam for 100 German and French guests
Lufthansa Technik AG

  • Organisation of a social programme for the supervisory board meeting
Mattson Thermal Products GmbH

  • Organisation of a cultural programme for the international board meeting
Nycomed GmbH

  • Organisation of the international management meeting with a networking programme in Babelsberg and a sightseeing tour in Potsdam
PWC PriceWaterhouse Coopers
Rotary Roma EUR-München

  • Complete organisation of a multi-day sightseeing programme in Berlin and Potsdam for 50 German and Italian Guests
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra SPCO

  • Organisation of an exclusive social programme for the patrons of the SPCO in Berlin, Potsdam and Leipzig with different excursions and receptions in collaboration with R. Crusoe
Society of International Business Fellows

  • Organisation of a multi-day exclusive social programme in collaboration with R. Crusoe
World Monuments Fund

  • Complete organisation of a multi-day sightseeing programme through the federal states of Berlin, Potsdam, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony with an expert discussion about restoration, as well as a sightseeing programme with seated dinners or receptions at the following manors, palaces and historic sites: Schloss Tegel, Bauhaus Dessau, Schloss Oranienbaum, Schloss Luisum/Wörlitz, Schloss Torgau, Schloss Proschwitz, the Green Vault in Dresden’s Royal Palace, Schloss Pillnitz and Schloss Nöthnitz
International Seed Federation, World Seed Congress 2004

  • Planning and complete organisation of a 5-day social programme in Berlin and Brandenburg for 1,500 congress attendees and a reception in the Orangerie at Charlottenburg Palace for 500 international guests

That’s what my customers say:

… I cannot tell you how much we appreciated the warmth of your welcome for us in Berlin and the professional manner in which you gave us such an interesting tour of Berlin and Potsdam. It was personal and professional. In fact our morning and afternoon with you was one of the outstanding memories we have of our trip to Germany this year. ….

Sheils & Co. Ltd., Ennis
… Lastly I want to express high praise for Kerstin Piontek, She proved not only to be extremely knowledgeable about historic Berlin, but also about the contemporary life of the city. She was also wonderful company – an inexhaustible supply of sharp observation, wit and good conversation. You should be very proud to have her in your employ.

Editor-In-Chief, Departure Magazine, New York
Your kind and friendly spirit made the time more enjoyable and I would be very happy to reciprocate with the same, if you decide one day to visit Israel.

KPMG Board Member, Israel
We wanted to take one more opportunity to thank you for your exceptional work on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Patron Tour 2001. Your expertise regarding the destination and the logistics, your experience with our travellers, your terrific attitude, your warmth, your creativity, and your sense of humour all helped make our tour unforgettable. The patrons have expressed their gratitude for such a wonderful experience, and we wish to pass those thanks on to you.

As members of the travel industry, we appreciate the work with professionals such as yourself on whom we can depend.

Vice President, R.Crusoe & Son, Chicago
We very much enjoyed your tour of Berlin and the insight you were able to give us into the new combination of the two Berlin since 1989. We have told several people how wonderful your tour was and I expect that in the future you will be getting calls from them asking you to take them around when they visit Berlin.

We saw a recent newspaper article in a local paper which was copied from an article in The Los Angeles Times. You were mentioned in it as taking the reporter around. It was fun to see your name and picture so soon after our trip to Berlin.

Once again it was a pleasure getting to know you.

Newton-Wellesley Obstetrics & Gynecology, P.C., MA
But first Kerstin Piontek, city guide and lifelong Berliner, has brought me here to the center of born-again Berlin, Europe´s largest construction site, where the world´s leading architects are at play.

As an East Berliner formerly barred form entry into the west, Piontek remembers the death strip well. And she also knows what lies under that idle lot about 100 yards from here: the rubble of the bunker where, 12 years after taking control of Germany and steering it toward World War II and a Jewish genocide, Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945.

Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times
“Every Western tourist asks me that,” said Kerstin. “…” was daily life different after the Wall fell?” … mostly they just want me to say it was wonderful.”

Kerstin – long cream leather coat, Dietrich cheekbones, Garbo smile – was an East Berliner and was going to show me something of her city.

“It´s not that simple“, she went on. “The changes have been bad as well as good. We can buy material things we only dreamed of before, but we`re not neighbourly the way we were or as kind to each other. We used to be certain of our jobs and flats for life. Not any more. And we live with constant change. Our railway, our underground, our radio and television, our electric and gas systems, everything must change to conform with the West. Even our dial tone is different now.”

Maryalicia Post, The Tribune Magazine
Thank you for doing such a great job on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Patron Tour to Berlin. Your creative ideas, organized planning, and flexibility made it possible to present a very successful tour in difficult times. You are an extraordinary person; rarely can one person be a superb planner and a fabulous guide. You do both beautifully.

David M. Weber, R.Crusoe Managing Director