Rachel Quan

Vice President, Special Events Houston Astros

Collaboration Panelist, Women in Breakbulk

Rachel joined the Houston Astros in July, 2024.   She came to the Astros from a marketing, sponsorship and communications agency in Houston (Professional Sports Partners) where she was the managing director of the Live Events division.  

Rachel’s background in production and events began as a festival director and then the national director of production and arrangements for an international non-profit that conducted festivals around the country. She first oversaw one of their largest festivals to date in Houston and then went on to manage production in other festival cities. From here she headed up the Houston office for Mowalla Productions where she met her future business partner, who co-founded SBHH with her several years later.  

A large component of Rachel’s events career was in the co-founding of SBHH, an event management and production company where she was the managing partner. She, along with three other company partners, made a name for themselves in the large event space, including concerts, corporate conferences, sporting events, stadium events and large outdoor festivals. Through the company, Rachel managed various large-scale events for a myriad of clients including as the vice president of external operations for the HLOC with the three most recent NCAA Men’s Final Fours in Houston (2011, 2016, 2023) in addition to working on the 2018 and 2022 Men’s Final Fours. She sold her partnership in SBHH in 2022. 

Rachel was a founding board member for WISE (Women in Sports & Events) in Houston in 2016, and the recipient of their Woman of Inspiration award in 2022. She was also the recipient of the Houston Business Journal’s Diversity in Business, Outstanding Head of Diversity award in 2023 while on the executive team for the Men’s Final Four.