International Innovator

For more than 30 years, Virginia Lofft has broken new ground in the meeting industry, first as a journalist and then as a publisher. Her area of particular expertise became the international meetings market, and over the years, she created many bridges to bring together U.S. planners and international suppliers — including the Beyond Borders magazine supplement, which was launched in 1994, and the Beyond Borders Conference, which followed in 1997. As she retired this year from a