Christi Nelson

About

At my core, I am a marketing leader.

Christi Nelson.

I’m a marketing and brand executive with more than two decades of experience leading audience, partnership, and experience strategy across live entertainment, sports, hospitality, and events.

My background spans venue launches, integrated marketing, premium hospitality, public relations, partnership activation, and audience engagement for globally recognized brands, venues, teams, and cultural platforms.

What differentiates my approach is a cross-functional understanding of how brand, operations, partnerships, commercial, and guest experience work together. Having worked across multiple disciplines throughout my career, I’m able to connect strategy to execution while balancing creative, operational, and organizational priorities.

I’ve helped launch flagship venues, build marketing organizations from the ground up, support major naming-rights integrations, and lead marketing and activation efforts for some of the world’s most recognized brands and live events.

I’m most effective in environments that require strategic thinking, adaptability, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to build structure where none exists.

Since 2024, I’ve applied that same approach as an independent consultant, advising hospitality and entertainment brands on brand positioning and marketing infrastructure, sponsorship strategy, and VIP hospitality as a business driver, on a retained or project basis.

Based inLas Vegas, NV
Available forRetained leadership, project engagements, and advisory

Specializing In

Brand StrategyGo-to-Market LaunchesPartnership ActivationExperiential MarketingAudience EngagementPremium Hospitality

Platforms

Marketing leadership across the brands, teams, events, and residencies that shape culture.

Across these engagements, I led public relations and publicity, managed sponsor activation, and supported the venue-side marketing and activation that brought audiences back year after year.

Brand Partners
Category-defining sponsors
T-MobileCoca-ColaAnheuser-BuschPernod RicardToyotaToshibaMcDonald’sAllegiantAXSMGM ResortsCaesars EntertainmentAEG
Venues
Flagship venues across sports, entertainment, and hospitality
T-Mobile ArenaMGM Grand Garden ArenaThe Colosseum at Caesars PalaceToyota ParkBrooklyn Bowl Las Vegas
Teams & Leagues
Tenants, rights-holders, marketing clients
Vegas Golden KnightsUFCNHLNBALas Vegas AcesTeam USANCAAPac-12Miami DolphinsMiami MarlinsChicago Fire FC
Residencies
PR, sponsorship, and marketing support across multi-year runs
Celine DionElton JohnCherRod StewartShania TwainBette MidlerJerry SeinfeldLuis MiguelBarry Manilow
Events & Festivals
Partner activation and hospitality at cultural peak moments
The GRAMMYsCoachellaStagecoachiHeartRadio Music FestivalNew Orleans Jazz and Heritage FestivalStanley Cup Playoffs and Finals

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