{"id":122,"date":"2014-10-02T10:10:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T10:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/expogroup\/2014\/10\/02\/new-vp-guides-growth\/"},"modified":"2018-12-09T23:50:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T23:50:06","slug":"new-vp-guides-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/new-vp-guides-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"New VP Guides Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body><\/p>\n<p><img alt='' src=\"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/40e95246-5bdc-4a3b-89ad-9678fe92f355.jpg\" style=\"height:62px; width:500px\" data-entity-uuid=\"50370a74-68bc-4ca6-a1aa-103f5eb484b2\" data-entity-type=\"file\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><span style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong>New VP of Enterprise Operations to Guide Growth at The Expo Group<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img alt='' src=\"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/8a0ea31f-f844-4ff5-9739-622248b07383.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; display:block; height:323px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; vertical-align:middle; width:300px\" data-entity-uuid=\"bb161f42-0578-4b64-bf3a-b1c905aa93af\" data-entity-type=\"file\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Eric Payne<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11pt\">Irving, Texas \u2013 Oct. 2, 2014 \u2013 Continued growth at The Expo Group brings Eric Payne to the innovative general services contractor as Vice President of Enterprise Operations. Payne will apply 15 years of business leadership and industry experience to his new role.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11.0pt\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11pt\">\u201cThe pace of face-to-face marketing demands proactive responsiveness as our clients rethink their events and exhibits,\u201d Payne says, \u201cand The Expo Group is ideally suited to consistent and reliable service delivery while honoring the commitment to customization. It is that personal touch, after all, that has fueled the success of this company and our clientele.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11pt\">Payne worked the past 11 years at GES and was previously a consultant for Bain and Company, where he provided expertise in cost reduction, customer profitability, merger and acquisition, and work stream analysis for a major exhibit house. He possesses two degrees in Business Administration and MIS from The University of Texas at Austin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11.0pt\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11pt\">\u201cOur company\u2019s agility means all of our projects entail elements of customer service, operational efficiency and people management, and Eric\u2019s diverse experience makes him the perfect person to direct our operations as we continue our record-breaking revenue growth,\u201d says Vice President and COO Randy Pekowski.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>About The Expo Group<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><em>The Expo Group is the Single Source\u00ae general contractor providing fascinating experiences for exhibitions and events with a\u00a0personal touch. The Dallas-based company also has offices in Boston, Las Vegas, Chicago, Austin\/San Antonio and Washington D.C. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theexpogroup.com\">www.theexpogroup.com<\/a> or <em>contact Dana Freker Doody directly at 972-751-9644, <\/em><\/em><a href=\"mailto:ddoody@theexpogroup.com\"><em>ddoody@theexpogroup.com<\/em><\/a> or on Twitter @theexpogroup<em>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New VP of Enterprise Operations to Guide Growth at The Expo Group Eric Payne Irving, Texas \u2013 Oct. 2, 2014 \u2013 Continued growth at The Expo Group brings Eric Payne[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[40,10,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}