Cynthia Freese

Founder and CEO

A Washington native, Cynthia Freese is founder and CEO of Evergreen Events. Evergreen Events is a conference company dedicated to the enrichment of the games industry through innovative, high-quality conferences that are both informative as well as connective. A dynamic networker who loves meeting people and helping others, Cynthia exemplifies the mission of making connections happen. A mother of three, she is an entrepreneur, volunteer, artist, and a writer who believes in sharing and giving back to her community.

Prior to her founding of Evergreen Events, Cynthia was the Event Director at The Game Initiative where she grew the Game Initiative’s conferences to include small, focused events with a unique focus. Cynthia was the creator and manager of the 2005 Casual Games Conference in Seattle. This successful conference allowed the games industry to focus on a new perspective in the industry. She was also the Conference Director of the 2005 Austin Game Conference, Women’s Game Conference and Writers Game Conference in Austin, TX, all of which had record attendance in 2005 and were well covered in the media. In addition to her work on innovative conferences Cynthia also focused on the Breaking In To the Game Industry events as well as helping to organize and attain industry speakers for middle school Career Days around the country.

Cynthia served 6 years in the US Army, which were split between the finance office at Walter Reed Army Medical Center , Washington DC and the finance office at Fort Lewis Washington, She has worked extensively in the communities where she has lived to help educate and inspire youth. As a leader in her community Cynthia serves on a variety of boards and committees where she is a take charge player. Her personal goals are to be a part of the innovating group that is striving to help to grow and strengthen the K-12 education systems that we currently share. Cynthia likes to be thought of as a bridge between groups and believes that by working together we will all be better off in the long run.

Telephone: 425.996.8478 x101

Email: cynthia@evergreenevents.org