By Ashley Dabb ASM Global, the global leader in venue and event strategy and management, announced the promotions of Mary Ann Torres, Dominique Bonds, Dwight Bazemore, and Melvin Smith. Mary Ann Torres, CMM, has been promoted to the Director of Event Management and Business Analysis.

By Blair Cardinal Spectra, one of the industry’s top private management and hospitality companies, has appointed Michael Logan as general manager to lead venue operations at the Swiftel Center. The company, which operates more than 330 venues across North America and globally, began i

By Communications Department The New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center (NOENMCC) hosted an anniversary event with their hospitality solutions partner, Centerplate. The event commemorated the ten-year anniversary of a groundbreaking relationship between a venue and a food and

Thaxter R. Trafton, of Rockland, ME passed away in Camden with his wife, Linda, by his side on July 25, 2021, from complications of Lewy body disease. He was 84. Thaxter was born in Danforth, ME on January 5, 1937, to Leone Fitzpatrick and Elton Trafton. A graduate of Morse High Schoo

By Nancy Walker The Los Angeles Convention Center (LACC), owned by the City of Los Angeles and managed by ASM Global, the premier venue management and services company, marked 50 eventful years with a live celebration on Thursday, July 29th. After touring the LA Art Show, the first la