About Us

Founder

With a diverse and impressive 12-year career in the food and beverage, event planning and hospitality industry, Jessica Roerden has learned what every customer truly desires: exceptional service. Her personal integrity and relentless commitment to excellence have set new standards within the competitive event-planning and hospitality industry. From multi-day corporate meetings to major spectator sporting event hospitality to more intimate gatherings as wine-pairing dinners, Jessica invests herself in the success of every Strategic Occasion. Jessica has produced a wide array of first-class events for an impressive range of local, regional and national clientèle. Her industry expertise and eye for detail have produced extraordinary results for such prestigious clients as the New York Giants, the New York Jets, the Washington Redskins, Citigroup, Women & Co., Lehman Brothers, Siemens, Cushman & Wakefield, Boston Properties, FedEx, Diageo, ING Direct, Cadillac and the NJSEA. Throughout her career, Jessica has earned a reputation for distinctive, professional and seamlessly executed events.

Jessica holds a bachelor’s degree with a double major in Communication and French Language & Literature from the University of Maryland.


			At Strategic Occasions, we are more than event planners. We partner with you to develop every event opportunity into a strategic occasion to make a lasting impact on your guests. Our objective is to learn as much as possible about you and your organization, your industry and your goals to continuously achieve successful results. Our process is to identify our clients’ benchmarks for success, learn about what they have done in the past and to clearly understand their objectives for current projects. When you hire Strategic Occasions, you are guaranteed a partnership with an organization whose high-performance business philosophy is: 100% focus on the customer. We are an extension of your internal team, acting on your behalf as a liaison between internal management and outside resources and it is because of this role as a blended third party that we are able to execute events as a perfect reflection of your directives. Your satisfaction is our top priority - with unwavering commitment, we are there to help you conceptualize and deliver flawless events throughout the United States.






Founder With a diverse and impressive 12-year career in the food and beverage, event planning and hospitality industry, Jessica Roerden has learned what every customer truly desires: exceptional service. Her personal integrity and relentless commitment to excellence have set new standards within the competitive event-planning and hospitality industry. From multi-day corporate meetings to major spectator sporting event hospitality to more intimate gatherings as wine-pairing dinners, Jessica invests herself in the success of every Strategic Occasion. Jessica has produced a wide array of first-class events for an impressive range of local, regional and national clientèle. Her industry expertise and eye for detail have produced extraordinary results for such prestigious clients as the New York Giants, the New York Jets, the Washington Redskins, Citigroup, Women & Co., Lehman Brothers, Siemens, Cushman & Wakefield, Boston Properties, FedEx, Diageo, ING Direct, Cadillac and the NJSEA. Throughout her career, Jessica has earned a reputation for distinctive, professional and seamlessly executed events. Jessica holds a bachelor’s degree with a double major in Communication and French Language & Literature from the University of Maryland.