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Marketing General Inc. (MGI) has signed a major new account with the American Sportfishing Association (ASA), the producers of ICAST-the International Convention of Allied Sportfishing. ICAST is the world's largest sportfishing trade show and will be held July 11-13, 2007 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Under the new contract, MGI will provide design and execution of all creative material for ICAST, including ads, brochures, flyers, and exhibitor packs. The 2007 ICAST is the 50th anniversary of the event and is expected to draw more than 7000 retail and wholesale buyers to view the latest sportfishing gear and accessories from hundreds of manufacturers and vendors.
National Trade Productions (NTP) announced several promotions at the Alexandria based-trade show management company. Tamara Christian, former President of NTP who has been with the company since 1992, takes on the new position of CEO where she will focus her attention on the further development of the company. Also being promoted are Jennifer Hoff to General Manager; Glenn Feder to President, Client Events; and Paige Cardwell to President, Creative Solutions Group (CSG).
Jennifer Hoff, a 14 year veteran of NTP, will add General Manager to her current title of Vice President of Operations and Conferences. In this role, Hoff will spearhead NTP's focus on improved and more standardized processes and procedures.
Glenn Feder, NTP's Vice President of Sales, will take on the newly created role of President of the Client Events division. Formerly, Feder managed sales for NTP's client events and proprietary events and has had great success in increasing revenue for all of NTP's clients. His new focus will be solely on increasing value to NTP's current clients and developing new client based business.
For five years Paige Cardwell has held two positions at NTP. She was the Vice President of Marketing while serving as the Managing Director of NTP's strategic marketing and creative agency, Creative Solutions Group (CSG). Cardwell has managed both aspects of her job with tremendous success and has grown all aspects of NTP marketing and CSG's creative services. Cardwell will take over in the newly created role as President of CSG.
In addition, Elena Grant, formerly the director of marketing for the Consumer Electronics Show (the largest show in the United States) has joined NTP as the Executive Director of Marketing for their Client Events Division; and Carrie Jolly, who has been a Director of Marketing at NTP for many years, will move to Creative Solutions Group (CSG) as a Account Director.
The Air Conditioning Contractors of America-National Capital Chapter (ACCA-NCC) participated in the Heat the Country (HTC) project in October 2006. This program was designed to repair and service heating equipment for elderly and/or disabled, low income homeowners and to ensure that they have adequate and safe heating in their homes this winter. The staging areas were at R. E. Michel's in Alexandria and R. E. Michel's in Forestville. ACCA-NCC's community partner on the Virginia side was The City of Alexandria, Department of Human Services.
Deane H. Hundley has been named the new President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Horticultural Society (AHS), one of the oldest member-based national gardening organizations in North America. Hundley, who was selected after an intensive six-month national search, will be based at George Washington’s River Farm, the Society’s headquarters in Alexandria. Hundley comes to the AHS with more than 25 years of experience in administration and fundraising for non-profit organizations. Most recently, he was a senior consultant with Ketchum, Inc. of Dallas, Texas, a fundraising firm that specializes in working with non-profits.
Prior to that, Hundley was chief operating officer for the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables, Florida. At Fairchild, he oversaw all financial and business operations for the 100-acre botanical garden. He also developed and implemented the garden's first organized fundraising program and carried out a major feasibility study for Fairchild's first capital campaign, which raised more than $13 million.
The Alexandria Community Trust (ACT), an affiliate of The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region (CFNCR), announced more than $50,000 in Organizational Capacity-Building Grants to six nonprofit organizations based in Alexandria. The two Organizational Assessment grantees are the Alexandria Volunteer Bureau and Alexandria Boys and Girls Club. The Implementation grantees are Alexandria Neighborhood Health Services, Inc. ($24,772); Alexandria Volunteer Bureau ($15,000); Alexandria Seaport Foundation ($6,000) and ALIVE ($4,000).
Dr. Jonathan Gueverra assumed leadership of Northern Virginia Community College's Alexandria Campus, effective Jan. 2. Gueverra, a native of Trinidad and Tobago , comes to NOVA from the State University of New York, where he was dean of the SUNY Canton School of Business and Public Service. Prior to his tenure at SUNY, Gueverra served as associate professor of management at Boston 's Wentworth Institute of Technology. He was assistant professor and director of program development in the School of Management at Lesley University in Cambridge, associate dean of business and career programs at Massachusetts Bay Community College, and chair of business administration at Newbury College. Gueverra earned his Ed.D. as well as his M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts-Boston; he received his B.S. in business administration from Providence College in Rhode Island. In addition, he has obtained extensive formal education in numerous distance education technologies. Gueverra resides in Alexandria with his wife, Josephine, his son and two daughters. His hobbies include coaching and officiating soccer, and gardening.
The Alexandria Convention & Visitors Association (ACVA) has been awarded accreditation from the Destination Marketing Accreditation Program (DMAP) administered by the Destination Marketing Association International (DMAI). In earning the accreditation, the ACVA demonstrates the travel industry's highest measure of excellence in serving the traveling public, the meetings and group travel industries, and the Alexandria community.