Experience

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  Event Advisory Group

  • Partner

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  Event Advisory Group

  • Fairfax, VA

  • Partner

    • Jan 2015 - Present
    • Fairfax, VA

    Event Advisory Group is currently engaged in the management of events for blue chip clients including NBMBAA, NAFA, IANA, and IPEC-Americas.EAG has provided advisory services to leading Associations such as International Baking Industry (IBIE, ABA & BEMA), National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council (IPEC), U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA), World Conservation Congress (ICUN), American Staffing Association (ASA), and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

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  Naylor Association Solutions (Naylor, LLC)

  • Tysons, VA

  • Senior Consultant to CEO

    • May 2010 - Sep 2020
    • Tysons, VA

    Served in a senior advisory capacity with Naylor clients. Provided expert advice and historical context to the Naylor staff with regard to strategic planning, budgeting, sales, and operations.

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  NaylorCMG

  • Fairfax, VA

  • Executive Vice President

    • Jan 2007 - May 2010
    • Fairfax, VA

    Orchestrated the smooth transition of management, administration, and lines of business, including customer service, finance, technology, marketing and sales following the acquisition of CMG as the Events Division of Naylor. Re-signed all clients and provided uninterrupted services during transition. Naylor Event Solutions has expanded to be a key service offering to Naylor’s 1,800 association clients throughout the U.S. and Canada.

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  Convention Management Group, Inc.

  • Fairfax, VA

  • President and Founder

    • May 1990 - Jan 2007
    • Fairfax, VA

    Provided full service turnkey event management including: business plans, program development, promotion campaigns, sales & customer service, housing, registration, logistics management, large event production, performance measurement and after action reports. Clients included top performing Gold 150 Events in a broad range of industries including AMI, IDFA, NASDA, ABA, NGA, AOPA, UMA, NMA, NRECA, BIO, TAA, SPI, and TSEA among others. Applied best practices, employed sound financial strategies, inspired maximum staff productivity, and leveraged the right technical solutions internally and externally to build a successful and desirable company. Negotiated the successful acquisition of Convention Management Group by Naylor, LLC.

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  Food Marketing Institute

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Senior Vice President

    • Oct 1978 - Oct 1990
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    Responsible for promoting and producing more than 50 domestic and international events annually including growing the annual FMI Tradeshow from 215,000 - 525,000 net sq ft with more than 28,000 buyer registrants, staging the annual FMI European Management Conference and launching the Australian/Pacific Rim Supermarket Conference & Expo, MarkeTechnics and the HBC Expo.