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Religious Conference Manager


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Betsy Bair

Betsy Bair
Editorial Director, MeetingsNet and Association Meetings
(978) 448-0582
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Betsy is Editorial Director of MeetingsNet, Penton Media, based in Cambridge, Mass. MeetingsNet includes Association Meetings, Corporate Meetings & Incentives, Medical Meetings, Financial & Insurance Meetings, and Religious Conference Manager magazines, meetingsnet.com, and a weekly e-newsletter, MeetingsNet Extra. Betsy has served as editorial director of the market-specific magazines since the early 1990s and frequently speaks on meeting planning trends and topics at industry events. She has also served in staff writing positions for Travel Agent magazine and Travel Management Daily.


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Corporate Meetings & Incentives and Financial & Insurance Meetings

Barbara Scofidio

Barbara Scofidio, Editor, Corporate Meetings & Incentives
(978) 448-8211
e-mail: bscofidio@meetingsnet.com
Barbara joined Corporate Meetings & Incentives in 1991 and has served as its editor since 1994. She is an active member in many meeting and incentive industry associations, including the National Business Travel Association’s Groups and Meetings Committee and Site Global, where she has served on the Education and Crystal Awards Committees and has been a long-time judge of the Crystal Awards. Barbara is a frequent speaker at industry events, including The Motivation Show. Before joining Penton Business Media, she was managing editor of Computer Design magazine, and a staff writer for Spotlight magazine (now Westchester magazine), in New York. She is a graduate of Binghamton University.

A complete list of the CMI/FIM editorial team.


Medical Meetings

Sue Pelletier

Sue Pelletier, Editor
(978) 448-0377
e-mail: spelletier@meetingsnet.com
Sue, who has been with MeetingsNet since 1998, previously wrote for and edited several national and international trade magazines and newsletters for the environmental industry. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, she also helped to plan a technical trade conference and exposition and several smaller meetings for the environmental industry before deciding to stick with what she does best. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and her surrogate child, Mango the Australian Shepherd.

A complete list of the MM editorial team.


RELIGIOUS CONFERENCE MANAGER

Regina McGee

Regina McGee, Editor
(978) 582-3361
e-mail: rmcgee2125@verizon.net
Regina is the former editor of Association Meetings. She started out in journalism as an editor with Successful Meetings before joining MeetingsNet in 1992. She left after 14 years to launch a magazine in the faith meetings field. She has won numerous awards from the American Society of Business Press Editors.

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