About Us

We are a flexible, agile and cost-efficient business. We have a motivated senior management team, and more expertise than most competitors with combined management experience of more than 40 years within the space.

Our History

Carbon Events was founded in 2008 , as a staffing agency with the mission of filling seasonal staffing supply shortages in the
hospitality and events sector with the vision of providing well paid employment opportunities for ambitious struggling students.
Slow and steady growth saw us reaching up to 200 placements a week in 2010, and thereafter a natural and organic evolution
seemed to occur to staffing solutions in the event bar, festival, concert and sporting event space occurred, that presented yet
more gaps to be filled.
In 2012 we started shifting our focus to holistic mobile event bar management services, to cater for festivals, concerts, sporting
and lifestyle events for between 2000 and 50 000 guests and attendees.
By 2016 we achieved and maintained at least 20% year on year growth,
In 2018 we went on to become one of the “The Largest By-Volume Event Bar and Festival Solutions service provider to the World’s
Top Rated, Fastest Growing Event, and Festival Destination Globally.” And were renowned as the service providers of industry choice.
We boasted Pre 2020 revenues of more than 20 million and had moved more than 5 million units of product over our bar counters
since we opened our doors.
Back to Pre 2020 revenues and beyond. 2023 Kickstarted our expansion into the United Kingdom. 🇬🇧

Meet The Team 

Managing Director

TristanPerry

Chief Financial Officer

StevenBurdett

Operations Manager

SamMatanhike

Project Coordinator

JadeDe Villiers

Account Executive

GrantAbrahams

Project Assistant

AlexObery

Project Assistant

AlexOosterberg

Activations Coordinator

JoshWilliams

Managing Director

TristanPerry

Chief Financial Officer

StevenBurdett

Operations Manager

SamMatanhike

Project Coordinator

JadeDe Villiers

Account Executive

GrantAbrahams

Project Assistant

AlexObery

Project Assistant

AlexOosterberg

Activations Coordinator

JoshWilliams

Our Founder

“Creating shareholder, stakeholder and societal value through influencing strategic direction with holistic integrity.”

Nicholas has been the driving force behind Carbon Events Bars since 2008, and steered the company through six-digit figure losses imposed on it by the lockdown period, bringing us out on the other side, stronger than ever before!

Nicholas is an entrepreneurial-minded executive recognised for leading sustainable business initiatives, conceptualizing growth-focused strategies, and establishing profitable partnerships through mutually beneficial stakeholder alignment across the event, liquor, FMCG and hospitality space in Southern Africa, Western Europe and the United Kingdom.

He was a recent beneficiary of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Scholarship Program, for his societal contributions during his working and academic engagements. The opportunity led to him University Of Amsterdam in 2021, to do his Masters MBA, with focus areas and research in leadership, strategy, sustainability and social entrepreneurship.

He is an energetic, passionate, accomplished, and versatile leader. He spends his time at Carbon working on research for growth initiatives into other regions, while consulting with old and new customers on how to improve their models, and coaching our internal management team on leadership, strategy and precision execution in their work, academic and personal lives.
 
He is resilient, caring, outspoken and hard working. He holds his values and ethics as close to his heart as he does those that surround him. When he is not working, he loves to spend time with his family and friends, to travel, exercise and learn new skills that can help him live a more balanced and healthy lifestyle.
 
His other current engagements include research and development for a platform that hopes to bring free proactive awareness, accessibility and immediate access to alternative health care content and service providers for those with disproportionate propensity for high exposure to stress related health disorders.   
 
Nicholas is passionate about challenging those around him to hold ethics and morality in high regard, giving others the ability to do the right thing in any given situation. He wishes for the world to redefine their wealth, as freedom and flexibility to help those around them.
 
He couldn’t have driven himself and the business to where they are today with his core management team Steven, Tristan, Samson, Jade, Baden, Grant, Josh, the support of his family, friends and all the businesses’ fantastic clients and stakeholders.

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NicholasDekker, MBA

Founder & Non Exec, Strategist & Consultant
Bcomm Mkt, Post Grad Bcomm Bus Strat (Hons),
Masters MBA University Of Amsterdam

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EVENTS, BAR & FESTIVAL SOLUTIONS

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