Speaker Details

2009 Fall Tradeshow Series Educational Speakers

Gary Rosenberg Gary J. Rosenberg

Biography

Gary has been in the meetings industry for over 25 years. He spent the first five years as director of Business Affairs for Billboard Publications. His responsibilities included the organization and implementation of Billboard's many domestic and international industry conferences. He then formed G&G Management, where he planned meetings for many corporations and associations prior to the formation of Rosenberg & Risinger. Rosenberg & Risinger then joined forces with CMI Resources in 2007.

Gary is a frequent speaker at MPI International Conferences, Meetings West, Meetings Quest and was instrumental in the development and execution of the Basic Meeting Planning Seminars between Hyatt Hotels and the Southern California chapter of MPI. He teaches meeting and convention management at, California State Universities at Long Beach and Dominguez Hills and has published several articles as well as being featured and quoted in many others. He served on the San Diego Meetings Hotel Advisory Board and as President of the Southwest & Pacific Chapter of PCMA.

He spent three years as a member of the International board of Directors of Meeting Professionals International, chaired the MPI international conference in Long Beach in 1989 and was named MPISCC Planner of the Year in 1986. He is a past president of the Southern California Chapter. Gary is also a past faculty member for PCMA, having taught Basic Meeting planning all over the country.

In 1989 he was honored by the Southern California Chapter of MPI which named The Gary J. Rosenberg, CMP Scholarship in appreciation of his commitment to the industry.

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