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Spotlight: Mary Hoover Drucker from Palm Beach, FL

Mary Hoover Drucker is a project manager at FIRST Agency, a global brand experience firm, where she plans and runs large-scale corporate events. Based in Palm Beach, Florida, she has spent more than a decade working in travel, tourism, and corporate event management.

Her current account is Goldman Sachs. She has previously worked on the Morgan Stanley account and on Estée Lauder, giving her experience across both financial services and the cosmetics industry. According to her public profile, she handles full lifecycle planning and execution for in-person and virtual events, with audience sizes reaching up to 3,000 attendees and budgets up to $12 million.

Day to day, her work involves coordinating vendors — hotels, caterers, and virtual technology providers — and managing the logistics that sit underneath any large event: attendee registration, marketing and communications, transportation, and travel. She works cross-functionally with stakeholders at multiple levels, often on compressed timelines.

Mary Drucker grew up in Haddonfield, New Jersey, and studied Travel and Tourism Management and Business Administration at Clemson University. Outside of work, she spends time at the beach, on ski slopes, and with her French Bulldog, Winnie.

Her career sits at the intersection of two industries with high standards for execution: financial services, where corporate events often involve senior leadership and important client relationships, and beauty and luxury brands, where the event itself is part of the product. Working across both requires the same underlying skill set — vendor management, logistics, budget control — applied to very different audiences.

Palm Beach has seen rising demand for corporate and luxury event services, and Mary Drucker’s role at FIRST Agency places her within that market while giving her access to the agency’s broader international client base.

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