People on the Move
Rachelle Crum -- Tradeshow Week, 6/12/2006
Jeff Cameron has joined Freeman as vice president of design and creative in its Dallas corporate headquarters.
Naylor has named Advanstar Communications veteran Alex DeBarr as president and CEO. Outgoing Naylor President and CEO Michael Moss will serve as vice chairman.
Leslie Doggett is stepping down as president and CEO of the Baltimore Area Convention & Visitors Assn. for health and family reasons. Ronnie Burt, vice president of convention sales and services, has been named interim president.
GES Exposition Services has promoted Dave Hall to executive vice president and CFO, Fred Buonacorsi to executive vice president of U.S. field operations and David Crockett to vice president of planning and corporate development.
Exhibit Works promoted Tom Hammond to CEO and Kevin Pritchard to COO. In addition, former CEO David Brown was named board vice chairman and President Dominic Silvio named board chairman.
Patrick Higgins and David Umanzio have joined the Palm Springs (Calif.) Desert Resorts Convention & Visitors Authority as national sales managers.
Elizabeth Hudock recently became national sales manager at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Convention Center. Larry Harris has joined as manager of event services.
The Renaissance Schaumburg (Ill.) Hotel & Convention Center has hired John Lampa as director of operations, Bob Lang as director of engineering and Nicolle Lucas as director of human resources.
Chris Meyer has been promoted to vice president of convention center sales at the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority, effective July 1.
John Nawn has joined the Professional Convention Management Assn. as vice president of education.
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