Jordan Joins IACVB as Chief Exec

Karen S. Jordan will be one of a handful of women to head a national association after she joins the International Association of Convention & Visitor Bureaus (IACVB) as president and CEO in September. Although Jordan shuns the label of female pioneer in the executive ranks of travel industry associations, she was, she notes, the first woman "to come up through the ranks of a major CVB." That was in Dallas, where she rose from sales manager to president and CEO in just ten years.