IAVM is proud to announce that Kim Bedier, CVE, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Charles A. McElravy Award, the Association’s highest honor recognizing a lifetime of extraordinary contributions to the venue management profession. Throughout a distinguished career s

National Search Concludes with Selection of Accomplished Internal Candidate and Longtime San Diego Convention Center Leader The San Diego Convention Center Corporation Board of Directors has appointed Mardeen Mattix as President & Chief Executive Officer on June 24, 2026, followin

Mount Baker Theatre’s (MBT) Facilities & Operations Director Jim Zoehrer, CVP, will take his final bow at the conclusion of MBT’s Centennial Season next year. Zoehrer’s four-decade career in the live events industry has taken him from national and international tours with world-re

The International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM) is pleased to announce that Brittany Martin, Assistant Director of Event Services at the Georgia World Congress Center, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 IAVM VMA Asia-Pacific Leadership Institute Scholarship. The sch

John Fredric Bolin, former General Manager of the University of South Carolina’s Carolina Coliseum, passed away Tuesday, June 9, 2026, at the age of 81. Bolin was born to parents Ambers Lee and Elizabeth Gold Bolin on November 12, 1944, in Gaffney, S.C. “He was often described as ‘a b