MPI announces interim COO

Meeting Professionals International (MPI) announced on Thursday that it has appointed David DuBois, CMP, CAE, as interim chief operating officer, effective May 1. DuBois is already executive vice president of the MPI Foundation, MPI’s nonprofit research and education arm. The appointment buys the organization additional time to fill the shoes of departing president and chief executive officer Edwin L. Griffin, Jr., CAE, who is leaving MPI at the end of April after more than 12 years in the