The Arena Network announced that Natalia Caplan has been promoted to the position of vice president of entertainment. The move was effective April 17. Caplan was previously director of entertainment for Arena Network since she began her career there 14 months ago. Caplan previously wo

When Jeff Davis, CVP, CMP, director/general manager of the state-of-the-art College Park Center arena on the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), began a tour of the venue last Friday for IAVM staff, the first thing that raced through my mind was, “Hey, this ain

Adonis “Sporty” Jeralds, CFE, has enjoyed a distinguished career that has taken him from the outset of his public assembly venue management career at the Hampton (VA) Coliseum in 1983 to his current role as an clinical professor in the University of South Carolina’s

Robert Johnson, president and general manager of the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, announced his retirement effective September 2017. Johnson has served as the facility’s senior director since 2007. Johnson has led the nation’s 6th largest convention and exhibition h

Fort Worth, Texas, otherwise known as Where The West Begins, will add to its portfolio of venues with the planned opening of a $450 million arena that will be called Dickies Arena. The naming rights partner is an appropriate one for “Cowtown” as the locally-based Williamso