People on the Move
-- Tradeshow Week, 8/24/2009
• Drew Cerza, president and founder of the RMI Promotions Group and founder of the Natl. Buffalo Wing Festival, was named interim president and CEO of the Buffalo Niagara (N.Y.) Convention & Visitors Bureau. He replaced Richard Geiger, who resigned.
• Daniel Fenton, CEO of Team San Jose (Calif.), was elected chair of the board of directors of the Destination Marketing Assn. Intl. Karen Williams, executive vice president of the Louisville (Ky.) Convention & Visitors Bureau, was named president of DMAI’s Destination & Travel Foundation Board of Trustees.
• Dan Graveline, executive director of the Georgia World Congress Center Authority, will retire at the end of this year, after 33 years heading the authority. A committee will conduct a nationwide search for his replacement.
• Global Spectrum named David Hicks general manager of the new Las Cruces (N.M.) Convention Center, which will be completed by the end of next year. Hicks formerly was director of sales and marketing at the Global Spectrum-managed Century Center Convention Center in South Bend, Ind.
• Philip A. Lauzon joined MC² as design director for the Southwest division, heading design teams in the Las Vegas and San Francisco offices.
• Facility manager Spotless appointed Dean Lee general manager of the Perth (Australia) Convention Exhibition Centre. Lee, previously general manager of Western Australia’s Fremantle Sailing Club, succeeded Robert Clifford.
• The Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau appointed David J. Sargent to the newly created position of senior vice president. Sargent, who previously was senior vice president of sales and marketing for the Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau, will work on acquiring new meetings and convention business for Chicago.
• Petra Wolf will succeed Herta Krausmann as managing director of Nuernberg Global Fairs. Krausmann is retiring from the exhibition business after more than 35 years. Wolf has worked for NuernbergMesse for 12 years.
• Mortimer Bernard Doyle, 92, passed away Aug. 2. Doyle was a former chairman of the American Society of Assn. Executives, the Timber Engineering Co. and the Intl. Snowmobile Industry Assn.; executive vice president of the Natl. Forest Products Assn.; and an official of the Natl. Assn. of Manufacturers.
