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director, marketing communications Boston Scientific NeurovascularFremont, Calif. PAST Jennifer Glynn started her career in the meetings industry in 1994 as an event planner on the supplier side, working on s...
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director, travel and meeting servicesCIGNAHartford, Conn.
A successful meeting planner is both proactive and reactive, says Rob Gingras, CMP, CTE. “You need to be able to react to the latest situation—the vo...
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director, travel and meetingsDaiichi Sankyo Inc.Parsippany, N.J.
PAST Before joining Daiichi Sankyo in November 2006 as manager of meetings, Karen Vander Ploeg spent five years working for a pharmaceutical ...
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general managerMicrosoft Event MarketingMicrosoft Corp., Redmond, Wash.
With a background in engineering, finance, and project management in the aerospace industry, Jeff Singsaas joined Microsoft in 1995 to...
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Manager, Meeting Services and Global Sourcing, Underwriters Laboratories, Northbrook, Ill.
PAST Johnson has always been the only titled meeting planner at her company; many meetings are planned by ad hoc pla...
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associate directorMillennium: The Takeda Oncology Co.Cambridge, Mass.
PAST Vachon parlayed his BS in hotel, restaurant, and institutional management into a long career working on both the operational and sal...
