By R.V. Baugus
The Events Industry Council (EIC), the global voice of the business events industry, has announced the recipients of its annual Global Awards, which celebrate and honor exemplary achievements and focus on leadership at all levels and areas of focus within the global business events industry.
Among this year’s EIC Hall of Leaders inductees is Bob McClintock, Executive Vice President Convention Centers for ASM Global. McClintock joins 143 previous recipients, each of whom has had a significant legacy impact on the
global business events sector. The recipients will be honored on October 10 at the Global Awards Celebration at ARIA Resort & Casino, Las Vegas.
“I confess this is a bit surreal – when one looks at the list of previous honorees it is impossible not to be humbled 
to be on the same list as a Tom Mobley, Frank Poe, John Christison, Peggy Daidakis and Cliff Wallace, McClintock said in sharing the names of some of the industry’s biggest difference-makers. “And these are just some of the names from our world! It is not false modesty to quote Big Bird – ‘one of these things is not like the others!'”
McClintock was nominated by IAVM Director of Education Greg Wolfe, who received the good news from EIC Chief Executive Officer Amy Calvert that McClintock indeed was worthy of the honor.
“It brings me great joy to announce that Mr. Bob McClintock, Executive Vice President, ASM Global was selected to be inducted into EIC’s Hall of Leaders,” Calvert said. “The Events Industry Council is thrilled to present Mr. McClintock with this special honor – a true testament to his lifetime achievements and the meaningful work endeavored to support and to lift up this industry and its workforce. Mr. McClintock will be rightly placed among a distinctive group of individuals distinguished by leadership, legacy impact, innovation, perseverance, and vision.”
McClintock has more than three decades in the public assembly venue world, starting in 1990 through 2011 as Senior Vice President with SMG. He has been in his current position since October 2019.
“I have reflected on this over the past few days and have realized the incredibly good fortune I have had to be surrounded by some of the most talented, dedicated, and hard-working people I could have ever imagined,” McClintock said. “I made a conscious decision over my career to stay with SMG (now ASM Global) because I know that they made me better at my job – and allowed me to enjoy every minute. Whether it was mentors like Matt Brown and Thom Connors, peers like John Adams and David Causton, or my partner in crime for over 20 years, Gregg Caren, I was blessed to be able to learn, be motivated, and challenged by them every day.
“But most important has been those who are the actual engine that powers our industry. Maz, Rickey, Bumpsie, etc. (that is a Philly thing) are the ones we lean on day in and day out. I was reminded this week how much the pandemic hit them the hardest and how many of them haven’t come back. I think that this is the mission that we all have to embrace now – to rebuild our industry stronger and more resilient so that we can again offer the careers that those men and women can rely on.”
Registration for the awards October 10 is now open.
From all of your friends at IAVM and in the industry, congratulations on a well-deserved honor!
