Board of Governors

Christine Creter
President, uPPstream

Christine (Chris) Creter has worked in event production and corporate education for more than 18 years. She began her career at Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting LLP), moving on to the world’s largest corporate production firm before starting her own creative learning and development company, uPPstream, in 2006. Chris’ primary specialty is designing and implementing large-scale corporate training events. She has designed and implemented over 1200 training programs for an estimated 300,000 corporate professionals on four continents and in 10 different languages for clients such as Pfizer, T-Mobile, BMS, Eli Lilly, Akzo Nobel, Heineken and Boehringer Ingleheim. Chris has also produced the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2004 Olympics in Greece, and the 2005 and 2007 Super Bowl halftime and pre-game shows. With We Are Family Foundation, Chris was one of the Founders of the Three Dot Dash initiative, the Executive Producer of the WAFF 10th Anniversary Gala, and is the on-going TedXTeen production lead.