Jeff Nickler, general manager of Tulsa’s SMG-managed BOK Center for the past six years, has joined the Oak View Group in the position of senior vice president of the Arena Alliance, where he leads the efforts of 28 professional venues working together to increase special events

By Jennifer J. Douglass, CTA, Communications and Marketing Manager After an extensive nationwide search, Krystine St. Michael Bussiere, CMP, has been named Director of Sales & Marketing for the Baltimore Convention Center. Krystine will be responsible for leading a team of 14 who

Microsoft Theater announced Amir Mertaban as the new general manager of the 7,100-seat downtown Los Angeles venue. Mertaban previously served as the general manager of the Fox Performing Arts Center and the Riverside Municipal Auditorium and prior to that he was the assistant general

Larry N. Rogers, who for 14 years managed the Augusta-Richmond County Civic Center (now James Brown Arena) and turned it into a profitable business operating in the black, passed away December 14 of medical problems. He was 76. Fittingly, the obituary note includes the following appro

The Cox Business Center in Tulsa, managed by SMG and owned by the City of Tulsa, announced the appointment of Angie Teel, CMP, as the assistant general manager. Teel joins the venue from the St. Charles Convention Center where she has acted as a director since 2011. She has more than