Pele Party

The Pele Awards 2014!

Thank you to Bill for taking me to the Pele Awards on April 26th and allowing me to totally crash the MVNP table. 

While I was a student, getting my M.B.A. at Hawaii Pacific University, I was focused on a career in marketing and/or advertising. The one firm that I stalked / admired / adored / followed closely, was MVNP. A friend of a friend was working there at the time and I heard about all their big accounts and insanely creative work. I'm pretty sure I applied with them fresh out of college but never got a call back! While I am happy in my career now, and never ended up at MVNP, I must say I had a blast with their team at the Pele Awards. I loved being around such fun, energetic, creative people. One guy at the table even passed out blinky-light-up plastic ice cubes to put in our cocktails. Ummm these are my people.

The awards were unlike other award dinners I go to for work (save the standard rubbery chicken entree). The venue was beautiful, the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, seaside. Drinks served on the lawn, then we went inside for the program. Instead of the standard speaker and emcee announcing the winners, the event was a full-on theater production. It felt kind of circus-like with a ringmaster who presented all the awards. A crew of actors and dancers performed all the way through, and they were awesome. Winners didn't go up to the stage (except the big winners), they simply stood to be recognized. With so many awards being handed out, I appreciated this format because it made things go faster! Also, it was awesome to see the advertisements on the big screen. I am so pleased to have been in a room with some of the most creative geniuses in Hawaii. Maybe I should go into advertising someday...hmm. Check out the list of winners here!