PURPLE PAPAYA - Key Persons


Adriana Martínez - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
A trilingual, mission oriented cultural and event manager with a 18+ years of experience in creating, managing and promoting events. Strong combination of business skills with a passion for arts, culture and communication. Talented in the 'art' of planning, organizing, leading, supervising and monitoring multitask projects. Strong combination of communication skills and media production. Focused on the larger vision for the organization while paying close attention to details. Creator, organizer and Director of LEA Festival, the Ibero-American leading cultural festival in Greece since 2008. Other events in which she has worked as an event manager are the Athens Democracy Forum, the International Book Fair of Thessaloniki (Greece), the First Latin Festival 2018 in Bahrain, Building Bridges Film Festival and Green Climate Fund Bahrain among others.

Chara Andrikopoulou

Job Titles:
  • Creative Lead
Chara is privileged to have spent almost three decades in the fields of creative design and construction, serving clients mainly from Europe and the Middle East. She is well versed in the full spectrum of graphic arts, digital & web technologies and construction. Highly creative, she is gifted with the ability to transform the client's vision to highly functional and effective results even under tight schedules and strict budgets, with the client's best interest always in mind.

Elizabeth Botha - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
An organized and detail-oriented event planner with over 12 years' experience in planning and executing events. Proven ability to manage schedules, meet tight deadlines, and offer consistently high-quality events. Adaptable, "take-charge" event planner with a talent for special-event management and a focus on outstanding customer service. Trusted as a "go-getter" event specialist and experience in leading all stages of innovative, branded and revenue-generating events exceeding client and employer expectations. Produce memorable, premium-quality functions for intimate gatherings and large crowds, including: Black-Tie Galas, Birthday Celebrations, Grand Openings, Family Festivals, Fashion Shows, Product Launches, Team building Events, Charity Events, Corporate Events, Photo Shoots, Craft Markets and many more. Among other events in Bahrain, Elizabeth has worked in the Bahrain Jazz Festival, South African Family Festival, Travelex - Corporate Team building, SAP, Saudi Arabia - Corporate Team buildings and AMCHAM, BBQ/Picnic Family Event.

Mary Die

Job Titles:
  • Art Director
With 20+ years of experience, Mary combines creative talent with finesse, efficiency and functionality. Results oriented, she is comfortable in thinking cross-functionally between strategy, marketing, communication and design. When realizing the client's vision, her graphic arts and marketing backgrounds give her the extra edge in both the conceptualizing and design stages.

Mary Mitzelou

Job Titles:
  • Senior Digital Marketing Manager
Maria is a highly certified digital marketing expert, with ten years of experience. She is skillful in aligning business objectives to powerful message concepts and effective digital campaigns. Being an out of the box thinker, she can deliver innovative results driven digital solutions, to the client's full satisfaction.