People on the Move
-- Tradeshow Week, 10/12/2009
• Werner M. Dornscheidt (at left), president and CEO of Messe Duesseldorf, was named first deputy chairman of the Assn. of the German Trade Fair Industry (AUMA). Dornscheidt will succeed Manfred Wutzlhofer, CEO of Messe Muenchen, when he leaves that position Jan. 1.
• Claudia Kaiser, vice president of business development for the Frankfurt Book Fair, now is interim manager of the Cape Town Book Fair in Cape Town, South Africa. The tradeshow is a joint venture between the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Publishers’ Assn. of South Africa.
• Damien Kitto (at left), CEO of the Adelaide (Australia) Convention Tourism Authority, was elected president of the Assn. of Australian Convention Bureaux. Lynn Fairbrass, manager of the Northern Territory’s Convention Bureau, was named vice president. Kitto succeeded Sandra Chipchase as AACB president.
• Meeting Professionals Intl. named Denise Autorino regional sales manager for the southeastern United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and Canada.
• Francine Butler was named executive vice president of AMC Institute, the trade association that represents the association management industry. Butler is founder and owner of the Resource Center for Associations, a Colorado-based association management company.
• London’s Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre promoted Sue Etherington to acting commercial director from international sales manager.
• Exhibitgroup/Giltspur named Miles Glidden vice president of client relations in New York.
• Convention Data Services named Mara Kolter business development manager.
• Rick Edwards was named acting CEO of the Peoria Area (Ill.) Convention & Visitors Bureau after the resignation of Brent Lonteen as president and CEO. Edwards is chairman of the Peoria CVB’s board.
• Wolfgang Marzin, currently CEO of Leipziger Messe, will become managing director of Messe Frankfurt.
• Marty Dwyer passed away at the age of 88. Among other shows, Dwyer managed CONEXPO-CON/AGG through his company, Dwyer & Associates, before the business was sold to Cahners Exhibitions in the late 1970s. He is survived by his wife, Gail, and his daughter, Pat Dwyer, a senior manager with SmithBucklin and chairwoman of the Major American Trade Show Organizers.
