20 Changemakers
Highlights
These individuals have driven SMMP in their companies, advanced their roles as meeting pros, and are helping to take our industry to the next level.Camille Paluscio, CMP Manager — travel, meetings and events
Volkswagen Group of America Inc.
Herndon, Va.
PAST Paluscio has worked for Volkswagen since the early 1980s, with the exception of four years when she ran her own company in the 1990s. At press time, she was juggling her new position as manager of travel, meetings, and events with her company's move from Auburn Hills, Mich., to Herndon, Va. In addition to collaborating with the company's human resources department on “look and see” trips for personnel who are changing locations, she is moving to Virginia, although most of her department will remain in Michigan.
CRED In 1999, Paluscio and a former boss proposed a new combined travel, meeting planning, and events department at VW. “We had talked about it off and on for years, and then one day we realized we should present a formal proposal.” Once the department was created, Paluscio spent the first few years wrapping her arms around meeting logistics. But once she started trying to gather data “and found that we weren't capturing the spend in any one place, I knew that I couldn't talk to suppliers from a position of knowledge.” Enter SMMP. “I realized that we needed to gather information, and then in my research, I came across SMMP, and it all made logical sense,” she says.
SUCCESS STORY “Once SMMP caught upper management's attention and opened everyone's eyes to the possibilities of real savings — I knew consolidation made sense, but it was a real achievement when my company recognized it as well.”
FORWARD-THINKING Her next challenge is continuing to grow a close relationship with procurement.
Acceptable Use Policy blog comments powered by Disqus
Want to use this article? Click here for options!
© 2009 Penton Media Inc.
Meetings Collaborative
Rate your experience with meeting venues and suppliers.
| Powered by: Meetings Collaborative | |
Advertisement
Advertisement
Apex Webinars
Creating Green-Meetings Standards
An industrywide effort to produce achievable, voluntary standards for greener meetings and events is under way. The Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX), an initiative of the Convention Industry Council, is working with the Environmental Protection Agency and ASTM International Standards to create baseline guidelines that both meeting managers and the hospitality community can embrace. Join us for a free webinar.
View it Now! | View APEX Archives
Webinars
What Meeting Planners Need to Know to Manage E-Meetings
Virtual meetings save time and money, get a thumbs-up from the “green” crowd, and offer new ways for companies and organizations to communicate, market, and sell. It’s time for meeting managers to start booking and managing them.
View it Now | View Archived Webinars
Advertisement
CVB Supplement 2008
The Changing Face of CVBs
Featuring:*Changing Face of CVB's
*CVB's Go Green
·Go to Digital Edition
















