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SAS Management Group

Who we are

Complete Event Solutions

SAS Management Group is a full-service event operations company. We plan the operation, staff it with supervised teams, move the people and vehicles, and stay accountable for how the day actually runs.

What we do, plainly

Organizers usually have the creative part handled. What they need is someone to hold the operation: the schedule, the movement, the positions, and the decisions that have to be made quickly and correctly at the worst possible moment.

SAS takes that role. Depending on the event, that means running the whole operation, managing one discipline within a larger production, or supplying supervised teams that plug into a plan your organization already owns.

We work across festivals and concerts, sports and air shows, corporate and trade events, and civic and community programs — environments that share a single requirement: large numbers of people moving on a schedule.

SAS Management Group — Complete Event Solutions

Event management, staffing, transportation, communications, site infrastructure, crowd operations, and planning — the full mark, and the full scope.

Operating standards

Five rules we hold ourselves to

These are not values on a wall. They are the specific habits that decide whether an event runs on schedule or spends the evening reacting.

  1. 01

    Plan in writing

    If it is not in the run of show or on the position map, it is not a plan. Verbal agreements do not survive show day.

  2. 02

    Push authority down

    Supervisors are given decisions to make. Escalation exists for exceptions, not for routine questions.

  3. 03

    Own the transitions

    Doors, set changes, breaks, and departure are planned first because they are where control is lost.

  4. 04

    Stay until it is clear

    The event is not over when the show ends. It is over when the last vehicle leaves and the site is handed back.

  5. 05

    Debrief honestly

    We write down what went wrong, including our part in it. That is the only way next year is better.

Microphone in the foreground with an event audience behind it

Sister company

NDL Parking Group

Parking operations, lot design, and vehicle throughput planning delivered by a team SAS works with directly on shared event sites.

On sites where parking and event operations touch — which is most of them — having both handled by teams that plan together removes the seam where guests usually get stuck. When it makes sense for your event, we bring NDL in. When it does not, we work with the parking operator you already use.

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Let's talk about the event you're responsible for.

Tell us what you're planning and where the operation worries you. We'll be direct about what we'd do.

Direct line
(714) 702-5868
Email
luis@sasmgtgroup.com