After Reba Pittman Walker abruptly resigned as CEO and general manager of the Washington Convention Center Authority earlier this month, an authority spokesman said, the board voted 7-1 to offer the post to one of its own members, Gregory O'Dell. O'Dell, currently CEO of the D.C. Sports & Entertainment Commission, will step into this new role in the first part of June, pending emergency legislation bypassing a D.C. law that states no one can shift from a board to staff position without a 45-day wait.
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Tim McGuinness, executive director of NYC & Company, the city's marketing and tourism bureau, is leaving May 15 to join the Intl. Council of Shopping Centers as staff vice president of business development.
The Performance Racing Industry Trade Show left Indianapolis after its 2004 show with a promise to return 2011-2013, after the completed expansion of the Indiana Convention Center & RCA Dome.
The collocation of three shows – ATME-I/MegaTex, SPESA Expo and Techtexil North America – will launch the Textile & Sewn Industry Week 2010 in Atlanta, according to the shows' organizers.
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