Denise Silverman CEO Denise has been planning events in Austin since 2002—when she launched Soirée. Over the course of the next seven years, Denise grew her company to seven full time event planners and boasted about 75 events/year, many of which have been published and/or featured in various news media outlets. She quickly became one of the local industry’s busiest and most successful event planners. After the merger of Soirée and CLINK in May 2009, Denise took over as CEO of CLINK. In this role, she oversees Operations, Human Resources and Sales/Marketing. Denise was born and raised in New York and spent nearly nine years in NYC's fast-paced world of marketing and public relations, during which she gained expertise in the areas of project management, client service and event planning. She prides herself on having the unique balance of creativity and business-savvy. And she focuses on providing the highest possible level of customer service. Denise graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1993 with a degree in Communications.