After a 30-year run, Tim Dean, long-time director of the Arkansas State University Convocation Center, retired on March 31. Dean began his career as the concert coordinator for the Student Union Board while a student at the university before being hired as assistant director at the Co

Tricia Gonyo, vice president of sales and marketing at VenuWorks, was nominated by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) as a candidate for its 2017 Man & Woman of the Year (MWOY) national campaign. Candidates of the MWOY campaign have 10 weeks from March 9 through May 20 to

Think TicketsWest and you have to think of Jack Lucas, founder of the Spokane, Washington-based company in 1987. Thirty years later, Lucas said that while his zeal and passion for the business remain, the timing was right to pass the presidential torch to Dusty Kurtz, who assumed lead

We’re giving you a chance to guess who the VenueConnect 2017 Keynote Speaker is before we make the big reveal on Friday, March 31. Each day leading up to the reveal, we will give you one clue to help you identify the speaker, but here’s the catch: you must be registered fo

I’ve always been a behind-the-scenes type of guy. In my 15-plus years of venue experience, I’ve met a lot of colleagues who found their way into this amazing career the same way I did: starting out as a volunteer or a part-time employee, just because it sounded fun. My personal introd