Corporate EVENT Magazine's Fifth Annual Corporate EVENT Awards

Judges


Bob DavisBob Davis
founder and president
Thrive Communications LLC, El Dorado Hills, CA

Bob Davis is founder and president of Thrive Communications LLC, which provides key marketing strategies and solutions to drive sales. With more than 20 years of marketing and communications experience, Davis has produced and coordinated hundreds of events from corporate trade shows and promotions to high-profile political inaugurations.

In addition to working with numerous celebrities and political figures, his clients and work experience have included Household Finance Corp., Salem Communications, the Thomas Kinkade Co., EMF Broadcasting, Shaping America Health, and the American Diabetes Association.

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Angeline Grace Close PhD Angeline Grace Close PhD
professor of marketing
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Angeline Grace Close PhD teaches Marketing Management, Advertising/ Integrated Marketing Communications, International Marketing, and Marketing Research, among others. She also completes consumer research in event marketing and the Internet, specifically how event-based communication/ promotion impacts behavior. Her research encompasses electronic services, e-tail, health-care, and holiday/leisure sectors.

Close's works appear in the Journal of Advertising Research, Advances in Consumer Research, Marketing Health Services, and the Proceedings of the American Marketing Association. She presents current research with many national and international audiences at meetings of the American Marketing Association (AMA), Association for Consumer Research (ACR), and Academy of Marketing Science (AMS). Close is also the chair of the American Marketing Association's Consumer Behavior Special Interest Group. Currently, she serves on the board of directors to current doctoral students in the AMA.

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Stuart GoldStuart Gold
group director, marketing programs
Omniture Inc.

Stuart Gold brings more than 23 years of extensive worldwide marketing experience to the software industry and currently serves as the group director, marketing programs for Omniture Inc.

Prior to Omniture, Gold was the vice president of partner marketing; global forums and sponsorships for BEA Systems, where he led a global team to create, define, and execute BEAWorld 2005, an annual technology conference. He also managed the Go-To-Market (GTM) strategies for BEA's most strategic partners as well as the multi-million dollar sports-marketing relationship with Rahal-Letterman Racing, which has attributed more than $15 million in license sales in just 24 months. Over his long tenor in software Gold has also held various senior management positions with Ariba Inc., Oracle Corp., and SAP America Inc.

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Dan GrimmDan Grimm
global director of communications services
Becton, Dickinson and Co., Franklin Lakes, NJ

Dan Grimm is the global director of communications services for Becton, Dickinson and Co., where he is responsible for BD's marketing communications, educational programs, in-house graphic design, trade show exhibiting, and corporate identity programs.

He also oversees select communications activities on behalf of the company, including the award-winning Trusted Partners campaign, which has been seen in Time, National Geographic, and numerous integrated media. Grimm joined BD in 1990, and holds a master's degree in advertising from Southern Illinois University.

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Kirk HoverKirk Hover
director of productions
Encore Productions Inc., Las Vegas

Kirk Hover has more than 22 years experience covering virtually every discipline of corporate events and presentations. After graduate work in business and finance at UNLV, Hover began his career with five years at Bauer Audio Visual, where he gained an invaluable technical foundation in corporate AV.

Joining Encore Productions in 1990, his perspective widened as he became involved in nearly every division of the three-time ranked "Fastest Growing Private Companies" from Inc. magazine. He divided his time working in operations for events, managing rentals, and eventually shifting his energies into production where he held a wide range of positions, including show coordinator, project manager, technical director, stage manager and producer. In 2000, Hover was appointed as the director of Encore's Production Division, where he oversees sales, operations, post facilities, and live events.

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Allison SagetAllison Saget
event marketing consultant, author of "The Event Marketing Handbook"
San Francisco

Allison Saget is president of her own event-marketing consulting firm as well as a speaker, marketer, and author of "The Event Marketing Handbook: Beyond Logistics and Planning." Her expertise includes developing strategies for trade shows, conferences, product launches, sports hospitality events, partner sponsorship programs, press- and analyst-relations efforts, executive functions, and sales events.

In her 20-year marketing career, she has created, designed, and managed more than 1,000 events, and worked in advertising, television, collateral design and production, logo merchandising, and direct marketing. Her clients and work experience have included such companies as Accenture, StarCite Inc., Harcourt Achieve, Oracle Corp., Tektronix, Procore Technologies Inc., DigitalThink Inc., Cardinal Business Media Inc., and USA Cable Network.

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Tami M. TimperioTami M. Timperio
director, global event marketing operations
Nortel Networks Ltd., Sunrise, FL

With more than 17 years in the telecommunications and high-tech industries, Tami Timperio has worked in sales and marketing for companies such as MCI, 3Com Corp., BEA Systems Inc. and Nortel Networks Ltd.

Her more than eight years with Nortel encompasses increasing responsibility in a variety of marketing roles. She currently manages a team of professionals responsible for global event measurement, event financials and budgeting, technical solution integration, and Nortel's mobile-event program.

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