A: From 1997 to 1999, I did company picnics, trade shows, and exhibit booths for a small, health-care consulting firm in Jenkintown. In 1999, I took a job with SEI Investments out of Oaks, as a corporate meeting planner. In the last five years I've run my own independent meeting-management company out of my home, where I plan international meeting events for U.S.-based companies going abroad.
Q: What is PAMPI's job in selling the expanded Convention Center, which will have 23 additional meeting rooms and an extra 123,000 square feet of meeting/banquet space, when it debuts in 2011?
A: To promote it and to help the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau promote it. As a nonprofit association, our job is really to bring together other like-minded individuals, provide education at a variety of different levels, provide networking activities among our peers, and to promote the city.
The expanded Convention Center will allow hoteliers to be able to fill more rooms, restaurants to have full-capacity seating, and for the city to be able to host larger conventions and conferences that in the past haven't been able to come here.
Birthplace: Philadelphia - Jefferson Hospital.
Occupation: Global meeting manager.
Hometown: West Chester.
Education: Elon College, B.S.; Temple Meeting Planning Certificate Program; certified meeting professional (CMP).
Personal: Husband, Michael; children, Matthew, 5, and Mackenzie, 3; expecting her third child Sept. 3.
Management style: To provide as much information as possible, step out of the way, and be available for support.
Last book read: Cook Yourself Thin (a cookbook).
Last movie seen: Twilight.
Best advice: Be true to who you are as a person and do not sacrifice your values or morals for anyone or anything.
Join Jennafer Ross, certified meeting professional, in a live online chat today at 11 a.m. at http://www.philly.com
Contact staff writer Suzette Parmley at 215-854-2594 or sparmley@phillynews.com.
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