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About JD Events
| The JDE Staff has over 200 years of combined tradeshow, conference and publishing experience. |
|  Joel Davis President & CEO
Prior to founding JD Events in January of 2002, Joel spent 16 years as a senior executive in the tradeshow and conference industry. He began his event management career as a sales executive in 1986 with Reed Exhibition Companies, the world's largest producer of trade events, and rose to the position of Industry Vice President. He left Reed in 1996 to serve as President of Primedia/Intertec Exhibitions (now known as Prism), and subsequently served as President and COO of eMarketWorld and Vice President and General Manager of Imark Communications. Joel has a great passion for the events business and a deeply held belief in the value of face-to-face marketing. He is a long standing member of the Society of Independent Show Organizers (SISO) and has served on the SISO Executive Committee. |
|  Dawn Jeffrey General Manager
Dawn's career in "Show Business" started over 20 years ago at Reed Exhibition Companies where she headed up the Database Marketing Department and implemented customer loyalty programs for over 30 Trade Shows and Conferences in the portfolio. She joined Intertec Exhibitions in 1996 to become Group Show Director of six marketing events. Dawn joins JD Events with extensive experience in P&L management, marketing, sales, registration, operations, acquisition implementation and procedural/process management. |
|  Joelle Coretti VP, Marketing & Strategic Relations
Joelle develops and oversees all marketing and media relations for JD Events' portfolio of conferences and trade shows. Her areas of expertise include direct marketing campaign development and management, email marketing and interactive advertising, special events and strategic relationships with industry organizations and publications. Joelle has been in event marketing management in the trade show/media business for more than 10 years, previously with PROMO Magazine, the New Haven Coliseum, Primedia, and Imark Communications. |
|  Lou Mancini VP, Operations
Lou started his publishing/trade show career 12 years ago at Cowles Business Media (now known as Penton), a producer of business to business magazines, newsletters and trade shows as a financial manager and then joined the trade show team as General Manager. Other stops in his career include eMarketWorld as Vice-President of Operations, PBI Media (Access Intelligence) where he was Director of Operations-Worldwide in 2001 and Radius Events where he was Vice President-Operations. |
|  Mark Freed VP, Business Development, KioskCom Self Service Expo & The Digital Signage Show
Before joining KioskCom in 2005, Mark was Sales Director for AD:TECH from December of 1999 and played a vital role in strengthening AD:TECH's global identity as being the #1 event on interactive advertising and marketing. Mark was previously in magazine publishing sales at Intertec Publishing, working for CATALOG AGE and DIRECT, and he was the leader in successfully launching 1TO1 Magazine in partnership with Peppers and Rogers and several other new products, including special industry supplements and online newsletters. He began his career in video communications, producing promotional and educational programming for such clients as BusinessWeek, INC. Magazine, Tiffany & Co., Canon USA, Inc., Steinway & Sons, Christian Dior and Elizabeth Arden. |
|  Michael Driscoll VP, Business Development/Event Director, HD World, SATCON & IP Media Expo
Michael Driscoll joined JD Events in 2003 when he assumed management of the SATCON event which had debuted in New York a few months earlier. Under Mike's direction, SATCON has grown by over 400% and become a major industry brand, with an excellent reputation among Government, Media and Enterprise attendees, as well as satellite and content delivery exhibitors. In 2005, Mike created the HD World Council and launched the HD World Conference & Exposition, which is co-located with SATCON and features a unique and world class conference program. Mike is a veteran trade show and conference executive with over 20 years experience delivering powerful audiences to leading technology firms. His expertise includes sales, marketing, audience acquisition, content development, speaker recruitment and building relationships with new alliances. Mike began his career in 1985 with a five year stint at Reed Exhibitions. He then co-launched Comtek International, which grew to a $30 million company in eight years, where he launched and produced the largest and most successful technology exhibitions in Russia and Eastern Europe. In 1998 Mike returned to the US market where he successfully launched and managed several events for iMark, CMP Media, and Reed Exhibitions before joining JD Events. Mike's motto is "make it happen," and delivering quality audiences to exhibitors is his passion. |
|  Brian Sullivan General Manager, SATCON
Brian began his tradeshow career at Reed Exhibition Companies in 1988 and worked on some of the largest trade events in North America, including the National Hardware Show. Promoted to International Manager in 1990, Brian coordinated sales efforts on North American events from the Reed International offices. In 1994, Brian launched Great American Exhibition, an event management company with a portfolio of wholly owned trade shows as well as providing consulting and show management services to other companies and associations. He is responsible for the development of the SATCON show concept. |
|  Jenabeth Ferguson Event Director, Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo
Jenabeth heads up the Healthcare Facilities Symposium where she provides strategic direction on the formulation and execution of the event. Jenabeth brings diverse tradeshow experience having worked in the client and vendor communities. Prior to joining JD Events, she served as the Registration Manager of Global events at Imark Communications and Convention Data Services as an Account Executive where she managed accounts producing events such as Comdex, MacWorld and AD:TECH. |
|  Lawrence Dvorchik General Manager, KioskCom Self Service Expo & The Digital Signage Show
Lawrence Dvorchik joined JD Events in 2005, and has been with KioskCom since 1998, overseeing the growth of the event into the world’s largest kiosk self-service event and a 2-time Tradeshow Week Fastest 50 award winner. Under his leadership, KioskCom’s annual show has grown from 100 attendees and 18 exhibitors to over 2,800 attendees and 100 exhibitors. Lawrence was also responsible for the launch of the KioskCom Excellence Awards, as well as KioskCom events worldwide. Prior to launching KioskCom, Lawrence served as the Managing Director for North American Sponsorship and Exhibitions for IQPC, a leading executive conference organizer, responsible for managing a team of 15 salespeople across North America. |
|  Nancy Jo Wiggin Vice President, Sales, Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo
Nancy Jo’s exhibition launch and sales leadership skills were developed during her sixteen years in the event industry with Infinity Expo Group, Reed Exhibitions, Ullo International/GEM Communications, Cadmus Point of Purchase and eMarket World. Prior to starting at JD Events, Nancy Jo was a partner and VP of Sales at Infinity Expo Group where she was responsible for managing the sales team, training and leading the launch events by implementing winning sales strategies, sponsorship programs and leadership skills by and forming publication and association relationships. Nancy Jo was also a Director of Business Development for three years at Reed Exhibitions North America where she successfully launched events in the spa and resort arena as well as the technology marketplace, identifying industry growth segments, positioning and branding events, developing educational, marketing and public relation programs as well as establishing key industry relationships to drive the success of these events. |
|  David Reynolds Director of Sales, SATCON & IP Media Expo
Dave joined JD Events with 12 years experience in the trade show and conference industry. He started his trade show career as a sales executive with Comtek International where he was promoted to Director of Sales and ultimately to Group Vice President in-charge of several international trade events in Europe ranging from broadcasting to consumer electronics and photo imaging. Dave has worked on US trade events as a Director of Business Development for Reed Exhibition Companies, the world’s largest producer of trade events. |
|  Liz Miller Manager, Content & Exhibit Services
Liz joined the JD Events team in May, 2005 as Event Coordinator. She recently graduated from the University of Connecticut where she majored in marketing. Liz's primary responsibilities at JD Events include: conference and speaker coordination, web site development and maintenance, customer service, and database management. |
|  Allison Tregger Show Coordinator
Allison Tregger joined the JD Events team in September 2008 as Tradeshow Coordinator. Allison graduated from Quinnipiac University where she majored in Public Relations and Advertising. Allison's primary responsibilities at JD Events include: direct marketing and operations coordination, web site development and maintenance, and customer service. |
|  Steve Sind Director of New Business Development
Steve has been in the exhibition industry for 30 years. Prior to forming his own consulting practice in 2002, he was Vice President and Director, International for Penton Media; President and CEO, Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR); and spent 15 years with Reed Exhibitions in a variety of executive positions: Senior Corporate Vice President, Global Strategic Planning; Senior Vice President, International Sales; and Senior Vice President, Asia/Pacific. Prior to his service with Reed, he began working in China in 1979 and was appointed Director of the first US Government exhibition to be held in China (1980). From 1976-1979, he was Director of the US Commercial Office in the former Soviet Union. He has lived in Moscow, Beijing and Hong Kong. |
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