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Kathy W. is a seasoned event management professional with 23 years of experience in managing conferences, events, and projects. She has a strong background in leadership, budgeting, and marketing, with expertise in Microsoft Office, social media marketing, and email marketing. Kathy holds a Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) certification and has worked with various companies, including Simplify Compliance, BLR, HCPro, and The Greeley Company.

Credentials

  • Certified Meeting Professional (CMP)
    Events Industry Council
    Oct, 2020
    - May, 2026

Experience

    • United States
    • Book and Periodical Publishing
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Event Sourcing Manager
      • Jan 2023 - Present

    • Senior Event Manager
      • Sep 2000 - Jan 2023

      Senior Manager of Events for Simplify Compliance which operates the BLR, CCMI, HCPro, DecisionHealth, HealthLeaders Media and ACDIS (Association of Clinical Documentations Integrity Specialists)Responsibilities include:• Maintain historical event data to build out conference financial budgets• Organize communications related to conference requirements and needs • Create and build hotel request for proposals, track and evaluate responses, make recommendations to conference product director• Negotiate meeting space to room block ratios, F&B minimums, and company’s required contract clauses • Review marketing materials • Build out and communicate meeting specifications to hotel conference service manager and associated vendors, including audio visual, • Manage and assess hotel registration/room block pick-up reports• Research and contract support resources as needed• Strict adherence with established budgeted financials • Travel to national conferences to lead onsite management • Provide post-event analysis along with final invoice billing reconciliation and processing for payments • Manage and mentor team members

  • BLR
    • Danvers, MA
    • Conference and Event Manager
      • May 2009 - Feb 2016
      • Danvers, MA

      Responsibilities include: • Planning of conferences for national healthcare conferences from inception to execution. • Responsible for creating RFP and negotiating contract terms with venues and vendors. • Holding ongoing planning meetings with internal stake holders.• Planning all detai...

  • HCPro, a Simplify Compliance brand
    • Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States
    • Meeting and Event Coordinator
      • Jan 2005 - May 2009
      • Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States

      Responsibilities include:• Supported national healthcare conferences for HCPro and Greeley brand seminars and conferences• Booked staff and speaker hotel rooms and managed hotel room blocks, tracking pickup and attrition • Seminar planning included working closely with marketing, creative service...

  • The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc.
    • Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States
    • Sr. Business Operations Manager
      • Sep 2000 - Jan 2005
      • Marblehead, Massachusetts, United States

      Senior Business Operations Manager for a national health care consulting firm. Responsibilities include coordination of projects for hospitals and as well as the marketing and sales of services. Contracting with independent physician consultants. Creation and maintenance of various status reports...

    • Director of Product and Vendor Development
      • 1996 - 1998

      Responsible for the enhancement of a transplant provider network including the negotiation, execution, and administration of provider contracts. Credentialing of the transplant programs within centers of excellence network. Conducting extensive research regarding outcomes data for solid organ and...

    • Treatment Services Specialist
      • 1992 - 1996

      Participation in the procurement of a managed care network of behavioral health and substance abuse providers for Medicaid recipients in the state of Massachusetts. Ongoing management of service providers through provider profiling, negotiating provider improvement goals and on site performance ...

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