By Alyssa Enwright and Stephanie Bunce The Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank’s Board of Directors has elected Clifford “Rip” Rippetoe, CVE, as Board Chair. Rippetoe is President and CEO of the San Diego Convention Center Corporation and serves as a board member of several San

By Maren Dougherty The San Diego Convention Center Corporation announced the 2021 officers of its Board of Directors. Hospitality executive and entrepreneur Elvin Lai will serve as Board Chair. “My top priority as the incoming Chair is to build and execute a strategic recovery p

(Editor’s Note: IAVM Chair Rip Rippetoe, CVE, was interviewed for the December Member Spotlight by the California Travel Association. We both congratulate Rip and thank him for his story as well as his promotion of IAVM and the role it plays throughout the public assembly venue

By R.V. Baugus Tammy Koolbeck, CVE, shared some final remarks as her most interesting and unprecedented year as chair of IAVM drew to a close. Koolbeck offered her thanks and acknowledged the contributions of many who helped her get through a year in which the COVID-19 pandemic shutte

By Paul Pettas Sodexo and Centerplate are hosting a webinar entitled Convention & Conference Centers Reimagine Live Events, on Wednesday, July 8, at 11 a.m., Eastern Time, with IAVM First Chair Rip Rippetoe, CVE, featured as the guest expert. In the midst of never-before-imagined