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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION
BIZBASH MEDIA
Robert Fitzgerald, Vice President
of Sales and Marketing
rfitzgerald@bizbash.com
Daniel Hollandsworth,
Vice President of Operations
dhollandsworth@bizbash.com
Lisa Heissan, Publisher,
National Venue Directory
lheissen@bizbash.com
MARKETING
Sarah Welt, Marketing Manager
swelt@bizbash.com
Chelsea Zimmer, Marketing Assistant
czimmer@bizbash.com
Silver tables, blue lighting, and starshaped projections provided an
appropriate backdrop for the Starlight
Orchestra’s performance.
Fedele Miranda, general
manager of Peerless
Merchants, accepted his
award from Gladys Mouton
di Stefano, president of the
Food and Beverage
Association of America.
CIRCULATION
Hamilton Maher,
Director of Circulation and
Audience Development
hmaher@bizbash.com
Joseph V. Cozza, executive
director of catering for the
New York Marriott Marquis,
addressed attendees.
EVENTS & PROMOTIONS Food and Beverage Association of America Honors David Adler
2006 Industry Hall of Fame
Announced
Each year at the BiZBash M&C Meeting and
Event Style Show, leaders and visionaries in
the event industry are honored for their hard
work and dedication. The following inductees
will be recognized at the sixth annual trade
show on November 9, 2006, at Pier 94 in
New York:
Felice F. Axelrod, president, Council of
Protocol Executives (COPE) and vice
president of protocol, Lehman Brothers
George F. (Jeff) Little II, president and chief
operating officer of George Little
Management LLC, and the George Little
management team
On Friday, May 5, the Food and Beverage Association of America honored BiZBash founder and
C.E.O. David Adler with the Industry Professional of the Year award at the 50th annual Ken
Strong Memorial Scholarship Fund gala awards dinner held at the New York Marriott Marquis.
Adler was recognized along with Joseph V. Cozza, executive director of catering for the New
York Marriott Marquis, and Fedele Miranda, general manager of Peerless Merchants. Cozza was
named Hospitality Professional of the Year, and Miranda was awarded Industry Professional of
the Year honors.
BiZBash Launches National Venue Guide
BiZBash is launching its first National Venue Guide in January
2007. This national event directory is designed to give toplevel, multimarket meeting and event planners the latest
information on both hotel and independent event-oriented
venues in 15 major U.S. meeting and event markets. These
markets include New York; Los Angeles; Chicago;
Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia; San Francisco; New
Orleans; Miami; Orlando; Atlanta; Boston; Detroit;
Dallas; Phoenix/Scottsdale; and San Diego. For more
information, visit www.bizbash.com/nvg.
Susan Magrino, president and C.E.O., Susan
Magrino Agency
Liz Neumark, C.E.O., Great Performances,
and the Great Performances team
MPI of Greater New York
Honors Richard Aaron
Peter Scharff, chairman, Scharff Weisberg
Richard Aaron, CMP, CSEP, president of
BiZBash Media, was inducted into the
Meeting Professionals International of
Greater New York’s Hall of Fame on
Monday, June 12, aboard the World
Yacht. Aaron was recognized for his
extensive work with MPI’s Greater New
York chapter at their annual awards and
installation gala.
See all the details of the 2006 BiZBash M&C
Meeting and Event Style Show at
www.bizbash.com/tradeshow.
21 Club Hosts Planners in the
Nonprofit Sector
On April 27, the 21 Club hosted the second
of a three-part luncheon series that brought
together top planners and development
officers in the nonprofit sector to discuss
trends in the event industry. Planners
gathered in the 21 Club’s wine cellar to
converse about effective board
development techniques, staying on top in
the nonprofit sector, and motivating and
inspiring participation in nonprofit events.
The conversation was led by Douglas
Blonsky, president of the Central Park
Conservancy, and David Adler, C.E.O. and
founder of BiZBash.
PRODUCTION
Jackie Lasek, Production Manager
jlasek@bizbash.com
Josianne Purchio,
Customer Service Specialist
jpurchio@bizbash.com
EVENTS
Dana Bertotti,
Project and Events Manager
dbertotti@bizbash.com
Samantha Newman, Events Intern
OPERATIONS
Kristin Cheung,
Operations Manager
kcheung@bizbash.com
Katharina Domeyko,
Accounting Assistant
Erin Burkett, Office Administrator
eburkett@bizbash.com
Wei Zheng, Senior Developer
wei@bizbash.com
BIZBASH NEW YORK
Jacqueline Gould,
Associate Publisher
jgould@bizbash.com
Lauren Stonecipher,
Advertising Director
lstonecipher@bizbash.com
Heather Feinstein,
Senior Account Executive
hfeinstein@bizbash.com
Benjamin Ritacco,
Account Executive
britacco@bizbash.com
Bill Sihler, Inside Sales Specialist
bsihler@bizbash.com
BIZBASH LOS ANGELES/
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Elisabeth Familian, President
efamilian@bizbash.com
Bobbi Proctor, Publisher
bproctor@bizbash.com
Nina Steiner,
Associate Sales Executive
nsteiner@bizbash.com
Richard Aaron and Pfizer Inc.’s Sam Gonzalez, MPI of
Greater New York’s Planner of the Year, posed for
pictures aboard the World Yacht.
Melissa Arnold,
Sales Associate
marnold@bizbash.com
Neicha Osei,
Administrative Assistant
nosei@bizbash.com
BIZBASH FLORIDA
Ann Keusch
800.327.3726, ann@csmipi.com
BiZBash and American
Express Partner on Amex
Open Card Program
BiZBash and American
Express Partner on Amex
Gift Cheque Program
In a bid to reach independent event planners
and help them manage and grow their
businesses, American Express is working with
BiZBash Media to promote its Open Card,
which offers users exclusive discounts and
rewards as well as tools to track and manage
expenses. For more information, contact
Robert Fitzgerald at rfitzgerald@bizbash.com.
Now through the end of September,
whenever planners use their American
Express card to pay for any hotel,
restaurant, or venue within the U.S. and
charge a minimum deposit, they receive
American Express Gift Cheques as a
reward. For more information, visit
www.bizbash.com/amex.
BIZBASH TORONTO
Kyle Hosick
416.425.6380 ext. 802,
khosick@bizbash.com
CHICAGO SALES
Susan Babin, Sidecar Media,
Advertising Sales Representative
312.829.6789
susan.babin@sidecarmedia.com
CONTACT US
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T H E L AT E S T E V E N T T R E N D S A N D I D E A S
The Next Top Talkers
Bill Clinton, Lance Armstrong, Jack Welch: You’ve probably heard of these titans of the speaking circuit. But if you’re not looking
to drop $250,000 for a keynote—or you want something new—meet the latest batch of big-time speakers. By Martha C. White
PHOTOS: JAN PITMAN/GETTY IMAGES (CLINTON), FRAZER HARRISON/GETTY IMAGES (GORE), MICHAEL BUCKNER/GETTY IMAGES (WELCH), PETER KRAMER/GETTY IMAGES (STEWART), FERNANDO LEON/GETTY IMAGES (GIULIANI), © 2005 NINA SUBIN (COX)
OLD GUARD
NEW GUARD
POWERFUL
POLITICOS
Bill Clinton weathered a sex scandal and
still came out as one of the most popular
politicians in recent history. Since he left
the White House, he has been one of the
most talked-about speakers, reputedly earning $100,000 and more, sometimes much
more. (Contact Harry Walker Agency,
646.227.4900, www.harrywalker.com)
Believe it or not, Clinton’s former number-two, Al Gore, is making an equally
astounding comeback: a return to cultural relevance after losing the presidency
in 2000. Critics in the United States and at Cannes praised his environmental
documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, saying Gore has finally found his voice.
Now people are talking about his newly invigorated political possibilities. Some
speculate his speaking fee is also in the six-figure range, but a spokesperson at
his office says he employs a sliding scale, based on the nature of the group and
the event. (Contact Harry Walker Agency, 646.227.4900, www.harrywalker.com)
BUSINESS
GURUS
Twentieth-century captain of industry Jack
Welch doles out business savvy gleaned
from two decades at the helm of General
Electric, reportedly charging more than
$100,000 for a speech. (Contact IMG
Speakers, 212.774.6735, www.imgspeakers.com)
Now, with the dot-bomb era over, consumer-generated content such as blogs
and video clips are breathing new life into the digital marketplace. Twentyfirst-century execs are learning from Shawn Gold, senior vice president of
marketing at wildly popular social networking site MySpace, which gives its
50 million-plus users a chunk of the Web to call their own. As a keynote
speaker at Ad:Tech San Francisco this spring, Gold told attendees what they
need to know to be relevant in the new millennium. (Contact Rena Grant at
Edelman, MySpace’s PR agency, 323.202.1026, rena.grant@edelman.com)
MOTIVATING His response to September 11, 2001,
MAYORS
turned Rudy Giuliani into “America’s
mayor”—and a popular speaker reported to
make as much as $100,000 for a keynote.
(Contact Washington Speakers Bureau,
703.684.0555,
www.washingtonspeakers.com)
BUSINESS
THINKERS
Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker writer and
author of the wildly popular books The
Tipping Point and Blink, has become such
a prominent marketing guru that he found
himself on the cover of Fast Company.
Media reports have placed his speaking fee
at $45,000. (Contact Leigh Bureau,
908.253.8600. www.leighbureau.com)
New Yorkers remember Giuliani’s drive to clean up a city some found more
gloomy than grand. Now, Cory Booker, newly elected mayor just across the
Hudson in Newark, is also tackling head-on the promise as well as the problems of a city that awaits its own renaissance. During his tenure as a city councilman, Booker generated buzz in local media outlets for outspoken, sometimes outlandish, feats of social advocacy, including a 10-day hunger strike and
a stint living in an RV. (Contact Greater Talent Network, 212.645.4200,
www.greatertalent.com)
Gladwell may have met his match in Steven D. Levitt and
Stephen J. Dubner, co-authors of Freakonomics, a book
that applies economic principles to explain everything from
why certain names become popular to how gangs are structured. The duo recently spoke at the American Society of
Training & Development’s annual meeting. Levitt can command as much as $40,000 for a speech. (Contact Harry
Walker Agency, 646.227.4900, www.harrywalker.com)
POLITICAL
HUCKSTERS
With The Daily Show more popular than
some actual news broadcasts, host Jon
Stewart has launched into the speaking
stratosphere, taking on gigs like the
Academy Awards. He charges as much as
$250,000 for a speech. (Contact Total
Access Speakers, 828.236.1113, ww.totalaccessspeakers.com; and others)
Hot on Stewart’s heels is Ana Marie Cox, the blogger-turned-novelist who rose
to fame as the voice of Wonkette, an inside-the-Beltway, below-the-belt blog of
D.C. deals and dish. Her roman à clef, Dog Days, debuted in the spring to
favorable reviews from The New York Times and other media outlets. She
charges between $15,000 and $20,000 for a keynote speech. (Contact Jackie
Frischetti, her publicist at Riverhead, the imprint that published Dog Days,
212.366.2271, jackie.frischetti@us.penguingroup.com)
INSPIRING
ATHLETES
Athletes are a dime a dozen. What put the
seven-time Tour de France winner Lance
Armstrong in a league of his own was his
very public battle with cancer. He charges
as much as $275,000. (Contact Big Speak,
805.569.0654, www.bigspeak.com;
Speakers Platform, 415.861.1700,
www.speaking.com; and others)
For Aron Ralston, his moment of truth came not on the road, but in a mountain crevasse, where the avid climber was pinned underneath a fallen rock and
had to amputate his own arm to free himself. Today, Ralston has returned to
climbing and taken up speaking (for $25,000 a pop). Recent gigs have ranged
from health care to financial groups, and he shares insights of survival that
apply in the boardroom as well as on the side of a mountain. (Contact Everest
Speakers Bureau, 865.525.8008, www.everestspeakersbureau.com; Premiere
Speakers, 615.261.4000, www.premierespeakers.com; and others)
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FREQUENT HOST
Cavalli Holds
Whirlwind of Parties
With his recently launched eponymous vodka to
promote, not to mention his numerous clothing,
home, and fragrance lines to sell, Italian fashion
designer Roberto Cavalli has been an especially
busy party host as of late. (He could also be celebrating the fact that he hasn’t yet had to serve a
14-month jail sentence for tax evasion, delivered
from a court in Florence in March.) Here’s a sampling of his events in the busy month of May.
Vodka party in Chicago
Teen Vogue’s Just Cavalli launch
The designer’s young, urban clothing line, Just Cavalli, was the
product-du-jour on May 3 when Teen Vogue cohosted a crowd
of twentysomething actors, designers, and reality stars. Cavalli’s
signature “Bora Bora” zebra print was splashed on benches
and pillows and draped throughout the Manor. Three-foot-tall
orange- and red-hued floral arrangements contained a
menagerie of heliconia, star of India, birds of paradise, pincushions, calla lilies, orchids, palms, and tall bamboo sticks.
Animal-print-covered lounges and white leather martini bars
filled West Loop Studio for the launch of Roberto Cavalli
Vodka in Chicago. Produced by XA, the Experiential Agency,
the May 8 event hosted approximately 250 guests who sipped
lychee martinis and mingled amid cocktail tables decorated
with bottles of the vodka and strewn with Swarovski crystals.
Fashion-forward guests had their Cavalli clothes autographed
by the designer.
Cavalli headed to sunny Los Angeles on May 11
to launch his vodka at a private mansion in
Holmby Hills. J. Ben Bourgeois Productions and
the Patton Group furnished a V.I.P. area with geometric white banquettes and plexiglass boxes illuminated from inside with LED lighting. Burgundy
roses, chartreuse orchids, and rust-colored foliage
filled the boxes, contrasting with the white furniture and peach carpeting. Eight white couches in
the shape of half circles, coupled with plexiglass
coffee tables that also enclosed rose and orchid
arrangements, sat in the corners.
The dessert table at Sloan-Kettering
Los Angeles vodka launch
Cavalli’s wife, Eva, joined her husband to cohost
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Vegasstyle fund-raiser in New York on May 17. With the
help of AO Production, the Cavallis turned
Sotheby’s seventh-floor auction space into an opulent dining room, with signature fabrics from the fallwinter 2006 collection. Buffet tables were draped
with a leopard print, and Raul Avila created centerpieces mixing ivy, roses, delphinium, hydrangeas,
and peonies. Red light shone through white muslin
draped across the ceiling.
I N S P I R AT I O N
Go Dutch
Catch up on recent design history when
an exhibit of 13 years of work from the
pioneering Dutch collective Droog
makes its only North American stop at
the Museum of Arts & Design. In line
with Droog’s whimsical approach and
dominant belief in reusable objects,
“Simply Droog: 10 + 3 Years of Creating
Innovation and Discussion” presents
works set up on the crates they were
shipped in, and tape on the floor separates thematically arranged spaces into
faux rooms. The exhibit opens
September 21 and closes January 14,
2007. (40 West 53rd St.; group tours:
212.956.3535 ext. 159, www.madmuseum.org) —Mark Mavrigian
Tejo Remy’s chest of drawers are among
more than 150 pieces on display.
PHOTOS: JOHN SCIULLI/WIREIMAGE (L.A.), HEIDI BRILL (CHICAGO), BOB GOEDEWAGEN (DROOG DESIGN CHEST OF DRAWERS BY TEJO REMY, 1991, COLLECTION DROOG DESIGN)
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PHOTOS: DANIEL D’ERRICO/COURTESY OF ALISON BROD PUBLIC RELATIONS (BETSEY JOHNSON), PATRICK MCMULLAN COMPANY (NEW MUSEUM)
TREND SPOTTED
Decor Galore
Balloons Are Back
No longer restricted to carnivals and little kids’
birthday parties, balloons have made a comeback
in fun, yet sophisticated ways at recent events.
Betsey Johnson—known for her zany sense of
whimsy in both her clothes and events—launched
her eponymous fragrance to 55 beauty editors
gathered at her recently redecorated Greenwich
Village apartment. Pink balloons tied with pink ribbons floated beneath the ceiling. Johnson’s PR
staff worked with Alison Brod Public Relations to
coordinate the event.
The American Folk Art Museum’s special
events manager, Katie Hush, and assistant special events manager Matt Beaugrand used balloons to add some dimension and texture to the
otherwise stark facade of Metropolitan
Pavilion, which hosted the museum’s Indiatheme benefit. Inspired by an exhibition at the
museum, the duo placed rows of large, stationary white balloons, attached to rigid ribbons and
weighted down by silver stars, along both sides
of the red carpet.
New Museum of Contemporary
Art director Lisa Phillips and
gala coordinators Cybele
Maylone and Livet Richard commissioned artist Jason
Hackenwerth to design balloon
sculptures for the museum’s
annual gala at Cipriani 42nd
Street. His whimsical, colorful
balloon sculptures, modeled after
animals and sea creatures, hung
from the ceiling.
There’s a new source for fashionable
furniture in town. Adding to its operations in Los Angeles and Las Vegas,
Signature Inc. Rentals (917.923.8220,
www.signatureincrentals.com) has now
expanded to New York. The rental
house stocks contemporary furnishings, including sofas, bars, columns,
light box tables, and mirrored walls—as
well as decorative Plexiglas towers (the
structures feature flowing water within
translucent walls). —Mark Mavrigian
Lounge furnishings from Signature's White Moderne
collection filled a corporate event at the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art.
D I S C O V E RY G I F T
Sweets With Keepsakes
New west Chelsea bakery and boutique shop
Three Tarts (212.462.4392, 164 Ninth Ave.,
www.3tarts.com) offers elegant gifts that combine artisanal desserts, chocolates, and baked
goods with beautiful keepsake packaging. Its
silver-leaf-garnished chocolate espresso pots de
crème come in hand-painted ceramic espresso
cups and saucers; the retail price is $45. The
company’s hand-crafted truffles come with a
Ritzenhoff porcelain piggy bank designed by
Hans-Christian Sanladerer—a cute gift for
bankers or finance types—for $65, plus shipping costs. —Suzanne Ito
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Give guests some international flavor with these eclectic choices.
By Mark Mavrigian
nitely not a conservative
choice, but for a heavy dose
of fun, check out the
Chinatown-based
Notorious MSG. The allmale trio—Hong Kong
Fever, Down-Lo Mein, and
the Hunan Bomb—delivers tongue-in-cheek hiphop with Asian-American
flavor. Their repertoire includes songs like “Dim Sum Girl” and “Chinatown
Hustler.” Performance fees range between $2,500 to $5,000, depending on
the location and type of event. (917.806.4945, www.notoriousmsg.com)
CLAP YOUR HANDS
Taking a cue from the tradition of flamenco,
Gazpacho Andalú
TAKE THEM TO THE SUBCONTINENT Inspire your audience with a lively Indian dance performance. Surati (201.792.2650, www.suratiinc.com), a New Jersey-based Indian performing arts academy,
has a group of professional dancers and musicians trained in a variety of classical and traditional folk
styles. The company’s artists performed in the 2005 India Day Parade and recently entertained guests
at the American Folk Art Museum’s spring benefit (pictured). Staged productions typically range
between $5,000 and $15,000.
(917.287.2908, www.gazpachoandalu.com) fuses
the instruments and
sounds of the Caribbean
and South America. The
six member group has
performed its soulful
compositions at Town Hall for the World Music Institute, and staged gigs at
the Theatre for a New City and East Village performance space LaMama
Experimental Theater Club. The act released its debut CD in May and on
August 12 the musicians will participate in Lincoln Center’s Out of Doors
festival. The cost for a two-hour show starts at $500 per performer; the size
of the group is flexible and can include flamenco dancers.
PHOTOS: COURTESY OF GAZPACHO ANDALÚ, COURTESY OF NOTORIOUS MSG, JAMIE WATTS PHOTOGRAPHS (SURATI)
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Centerpieces That Made a Statement
These five organizations presented smart ideas to get their messages across (the table). By Mark Mavrigian
Event
Calendar
AUGUST 12 TO 13
Hamptons Wine & Food
Festival at the Ross School,
East Hampton
AUGUST 12 TO 17 New
York International Gift Fair at
the Javits Center, Show Piers
on the Hudson, and Pier 94
AUGUST 31 MTV Video
Music Awards at Radio City
Music Hall
Leaving a Light On
Among the famous students that have passed through the Cooper Union for
the Advancement of Science and Art is Thomas Edison. So it was fitting that
for the school’s Urban Visionaries gala, overseen by Laurent Fisher, the institution’s director of major gifts and donor relations, Glow Lighting & Production
had a “bright” idea. Strands of globular, old-fashioned-looking bulbs with blazing bright filaments were bundled inside of glass cube-shaped vases placed on
the tables of the evening’s honorees. The glowing centerpieces not only served
to call attention to those tables, but also tied in to the college’s unique history.
The Public Art Fund provides artistic inspiration to the masses with
artists’ projects in public spaces, and its annual benefit brought a little piece of what its artists do all over the city to guests’ dinner tables.
Artist Alejandro Diaz’s “A Can for All Seasons” installation replicated
Mexican food cans as large-scale planters along the Grand Concourse
in the Bronx, and the fund-raiser’s centerpieces were small versions
filled with silk flowers, numbered, signed by the artist, and available
for sale during the event.
For nonprofit Homes for the Homeless’ 20th anniversary at
Capitale, miniature houses were a prominent (and appropriate) feature in the decor. Wolfgang Thom of Wolfgang Design worked with
Jennifer Warren, the nonprofit’s development associate, and Harriet
Weintraub of HWPR to design centerpieces for the dinner area that
had a clean and organic look, with glass frames fashioned into the
simple shape of a house, an apt symbol for the organization’s work
building housing for those without homes.
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august/september 2006
SEPTEMBER 21 New
Yorkers for Children’s gala at
Cipriani 42nd Street
SEPTEMBER 25 TO 29
Advertising Week
SEPTEMBER 29 TO
OCTOBER 15 Film Society
of Lincoln Center’s New York
Film Festival
Branching Out
Getting kids involved was a
fitting touch for Safe
Horizon, a nonprofit that
aids victims of abuse and
their families. Molly
Solomon, the organization’s director of special
events, worked with designer Matthew David
Hopkins of Matthew David
Events, who fashioned
topiaries out of a mix of
orange and white umbrella
frames that served as faux
branches. Hopkins decorated the branches with 1,500
leaves painted by children
from shelters.
OCTOBER 4 Carnegie
Hall’s opening night concert
OCTOBER 7 VH-1’s Hip
Hop Honors at the
Hammerstein Ballroom
OCTOBER 7 TO 8 Open
House New York citywide
architecture tours
OCTOBER 15 Great Read
in the Park literary festival in
Bryant Park
OCTOBER 18 CooperHewitt, National Design
Museum’s National Design
awards
Kindling a Connection
Give Them Shelter
SEPTEMBER 17 TO 18
Spa & Resort/Medical Spa
expo and conference at the
Javits Center
The Wildlife Conservation Society is
known for its role in overseeing the Central
Park and Bronx Zoos (among other organizations), and to commemorate its role in
preserving the American bison and the centennial of the American Bison Society, a
Western feel permeated its gala. Carolyn
Bakula of Grayson Bakula Design created
centerpieces of sandblasted manzanita
branches that resembled the wild, licking
flames of a campfire and sheltered miniature
elements of the Western landscape—succulents nestled in mounds of little pebbles.
OCTOBER 18 TO 22
Hamptons International Film
Festival, East Hampton,
Montauk, Sag Harbor, and
Southampton
OCTOBER 23 Whitney
Museum of American Art’s
fall gala at the museum
OCTOBER 26 Fashion
Group International’s Night
of Stars benefit at Cipriani
42nd Street
OCTOBER 30 Glamour
Women of the Year awards
at Carnegie Hall
OCTOBER 31 TO
NOVEMBER 4 CMJ Music
Marathon at Lincoln Center
for the Performing Arts
PHOTO: LIZA YOUNG (WCS)
A Canned Idea
SEPTEMBER 12 American
Cancer Society’s Dream ball
at the Waldorf-Astoria
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Who’s Doing
What
Bicoastal event, meeting, and video production
company Invision
Communications has
hired Adam Selig, former
president and C.E.O. of
Broadstreet, to take on
the role of managing
director. Selig will bring
his Manhattan clients and
resources to the new position, which will involve
overseeing the company’s
East Coast operations.
D I S C O V E RYA C T I V I T Y
Take to the Tees in SoHo
For sporty execs who love golf, Drive 495 (495 Broadway,
2nd Floor, 212.334.9537, www.driveclubs.com) is a new
place for them to swing their clubs. The center—which also
contains a fully equipped workout gym—fills two levels
with high-tech golf simulators and computerized training
programs, as well as a lounge. The club has cameras that
record players’ moves, so they can play back the footage
and analyze their swings. —Mark Mavrigian
PHENOMENA
Decor for the Floor
Event design has recently taken a downturn—to the floor.
These bashes offered fun touches that had guests watching
where they trod.
PHOTO: BILLY FARRELL/PATRICK MCMULLAN COMPANY (WHITNEY), BEN COPPELMAN (DRIVE 495)
Keith Greco of Los
Angeles-based Greco
Design scattered multicolored round confetti
with the Blender logo
throughout Studio 450
for the magazine’s fifth
birthday party.
Silver sequins
covered a black
carpet at
Skylight for the
Whitney
Museum of
American Art’s
ArtParty—a
benefit for the
museum’s young
social set.
Swarovski bedecked the red carpet entryway with its sparkly
stones for the launch of its Poetic Night Collection of accessories at Rockefeller Center.
Bill Ash, former president of Signature
Preston Bailey (the
designer’s line of vases
and tableware), is Alpine
Creative Group’s new
marketing director. He will
oversee the creation of
Alpine Gifts and
Accessories, a new division of Steve Pastor’s
invitation design company
that’s slated to launch in
early 2007.
The Westin New York
at Times Square has
appointed Eric Dupaix as
director of food and beverage. Dupaix will oversee
all catering and banquet
operations, in addition to
menus at Bar 10 and
Shula’s Steak House.
George Little
Management (GLM) has
announced that Patti
Stracher has rejoined the
company after a six-year
absence to return to her
role as show manager of
the National Stationery
Show. Stracher was consulting within the stationery industry for the
past six years. She will be
replacing former show
manager Lori Robinson,
who had previously scaled
back her position at GLM
for personal reasons.
Chicago-based events
firm ProActive Inc. has
hired Lance Aldridge and
Jeanine Jakelich as the
market directors for its
New York office. Aldridge
will oversee ProActive’s
entertainment and sports
marketing accounts;
Jakelich will focus on the
health care and pharmaceutical industries.
Starwood Hotels &
Resorts has appointed
Chad Waetzig as senior
vice president of marketing for Sheraton Hotels
& Resorts.
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