On the Move
Workin’ It
New Orleans’ Hotel Monteleone, in conjunction with the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau and USA Hosts, hosted 24 members of association management giant SmithBucklin. Smart City upgraded the telecommunications network and is providing free Internet service to Las Vegas charity Opportunity Village. Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC) was chosen as the venue for the 49th Ladies Circle International Annual Conference. Total Event Resources expanded to a new location in Schaumburg, Ill. The Anaheim/Orange County Visitor & Convention Bureau will start offering Passkey as an integral component of its meeting services. Continuity of Operations Planning Experts of Denver launched a new website (www.copeservices.com) and a new emergency preparedness product line. Industrial Artist Management launched The Rhythmics’ new website,
www.therhythmics.com. MPI’s International Board of Directors selected Houston to host the 2008 Professional Education Conference-North America. U.K. events organizer Clarion Events Ltd. partnered with Travel Technology Group Ltd. to expand its customer offerings with event accommodation services. The Corinthia Nevskij Palace Hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia, welcomed the official delegations of China and India for the G-8 Summit meeting. That’s Cool Events launched its website, www.thatscoolevents.com.
On the Job
BBJ Linen apppointed Carlos Molinaris as vice president of fulfillment operations. Retail Entertainment Design appointed Lynda Stenge as director of strategic marketing and partnerships. Stuart Rooney joined Melbourne, Australia-based Staging Connections as manager of AVExpress. ProActive Inc. added Jeff Rider as general manager. The Meeting Manager hired Suzanne Nieto as account executive. Jim LaBadie joined LA INC. as director of Midwest region convention sales. Global Spectrum promoted Lauren Gallen to event manager of the Overland Park Convention Center. VisitPittsburgh appointed Brenda Hill as national sales director. Cynthia Holloway, director of corporate communications for Tyco Healthcare of Mansfield, Mass., was named president of the Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Association for 2006-2007. The Sonoma County Tourism Bureau added Chyrl Collins as the new tour and travel sales manager. TBA expanded its destination management team with the appointment of Michael Quatrini as general manger of TBA’s Orlando office; Robert McKone as director of sales, destination management; and Barbara Cordero as account executive, destination management. Landmark Event Services promoted Sara Csillag to senior event coordinator.
Awards and Achievements
IMEX was declared “Best Trade Show” at the 2006 Association of Exhibition Organisers Excellence Awards luncheon held in London. Catering By McCormick & Schmick’s, a catering division of McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurants, recognized Andrea Henley for earning the designation of Certified Professional Catering Executive from the National Association of Catering Executives. New York-based event design and production company Barkley Kalpak Associates (BKA) won an ISES Big Apple Award for “Best Corporate Event.” Andrew Jackson Litz, sales and marketing account coordinator, and Angela Stassi, marketing manager, accepted the Big Apple Award on behalf of the BKA team. Inogen Inc. was presented with the Medical Marketing Association’s Bronze In-Awe Award for its trade show booth. The company was conceived as an entrepreneurial student project at the University of California-Santa Barbara. The Greensboro Merchants Association named Exclamations Catering “Retailer of the Year.” The National Speakers Association (NSA), an organization for professional speakers, inducted Lenora Billings-Harris of Greensboro, N.C., as 2006-2007 national president at its NSA 2006 National Convention in Orlando, Fla.