TBA's Lee Rubenstein makes a direct connection with customers

By Lisa Hurley

Lee Rubenstein is moving fast. Named president and chief operating officer of Los Angeles-based TBA Global in January, the communications pro is on the...

RFPs: INSIDER INSIGHTS

By Lisa Hurley

They are costly, time-consuming and easily pirated. Requests for Proposal are a controversial topic among independent planners, as reported in our last...

RFPS: REALLY FEELING PRESSURE

By Lisa Hurley

For one event design and production company, the total came to $12,500. For another, it was nearly $15,000. Was this profit from event services they provided...

YOUNG WORKERS ARE HIRED, WIRED & READY TO PARTY

BY CHRISTINE LANDRY

Corporate events can bring to mind yawn-inducing programs requiring hours of sitting. But these events have evolved, just like the multitasking cell phones...

GUEST ROOM: THE FASHION PASSION OF FERN MALLIS

By Lisa Hurley

Ever since being voted best dressed in her senior class at James Madison High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., Fern Mallis has been all about fashion. Now senior...

KAREN HANSEN ON WORKING MAGIC WITH CORPORATE FAMILY EVENTS

By Karen Hansen

You have been summoned from Mount Olympus by Zeus himself to embark on a heroic quest. So reads the first line of an invitation addressed to 11-year-old...

GUEST ROOM: NELSON FREITAS OF JACK MORTON CO.

BY CHRISTINE LANDRY

NELSON Freitas has plenty of experience in the business of branding. During his time as senior partner and worldwide group planning director at New York-based...

THE LAST WORD: TONY RICHARDS

By Natasha Garber

“I didn’t know it then, but I was studying to become an event producer,” says Tony Richards of his film and television days. Those days were back in the 1990s, when a Los Angeles-based Richards worked in production, first for 20th Century Fox and then Disney, handling everything from set construction to audience issues. ...

CONFETTI: BILTMORE PLANNERS ARE FAST MOVERS

Alexandra Gudmundsson

GUESTS often enjoy apparently effortless events, but a peek behind the scenes can reveal last-minute adjustments by some fast-thinking event professionals....

MUTUAL FUND FIRMS FINED FOR LAVISH PARTIES

Three mutual fund companies have been slapped with fines totaling $700,000 by the National Association of Securities Dealers for improperly treating brokers to fancy parties and pricey meals, the agency announced Monday. ...