{"id":94,"date":"2017-07-24T10:09:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T10:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/expogroup\/2017\/07\/24\/the-expo-group-show-manager-of-the-year-awards-honorees-chosen-for-2017\/"},"modified":"2018-12-09T23:22:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T23:22:43","slug":"the-expo-group-show-manager-of-the-year-awards-honorees-chosen-for-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/the-expo-group-show-manager-of-the-year-awards-honorees-chosen-for-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The Expo Group Show Manager of the Year Awards Honorees Chosen for 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body><\/p>\n<p><img alt='' src=\"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/786b7c30-0918-49aa-925f-5d04c6273abd.jpg\" data-entity-uuid=\"3f12d50b-dcb1-4377-9015-0d0407c6dfe4\" data-entity-type=\"file\"><\/p>\n<h3>The Expo Group Show Manager of the Year<br \/>\nAwards Honorees Chosen for 2017<\/h3>\n<p>Irving, Texas \u2013 July 24, 2017 \u2013 Four show managers have been selected to receive The Expo Group Show Manager of the Year (SMOTY) award for excellence in serving their attendee and exhibitor communities. Since 2000 The Expo Group has honored unsung heroes committed innovation and service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Expo Group SMOTY awards program is one way we give back to the industry, and we are proud to honor people adopting new ideas and creating change,\u201d says President and COO of The Expo Group Randy Pekowski. \u201cThese honorees are not our clients, they are simply show managers doing great work that should be recognized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><big>The 2017 The Expo Group Show Manager of the Year honorees are:<\/big><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/e51faf8d-a798-462e-881e-9596e6b4f696.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:200px; margin:1px 5px; width:133px\" data-entity-uuid=\"e29f4ba8-c0d9-4e13-87ae-419a8264b0cb\" data-entity-type=\"file\"><strong>Tier I, 1 to 200 booths: Jennifer Wishart of SmithBucklin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/b5b9076c-2f43-4158-9bb9-289d30834d4e.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:200px; margin:1px 5px; width:133px\" data-entity-uuid=\"5a64979e-f937-4bb3-aa0a-b818b6c5790f\" data-entity-type=\"file\"><strong>\u00a0 Tier II, 201 to 500 booths:Stuart Ruff-Lyon, CMP, DES of The Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/906beb29-f24a-442b-af3d-bd86b2a7bfc0.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:200px; margin:1px 5px; width:133px\" data-entity-uuid=\"b50c96ed-5bbb-403e-9a28-fca41d3a8eeb\" data-entity-type=\"file\"><strong>Tier III, 501 to 1,500 booths: Christine Salmon of Diversified Communications<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0<img src=\"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2a62cf65-8794-4d34-b410-927379e2fd1b.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:200px; margin:1px 5px; width:133px\" data-entity-uuid=\"23527359-66a6-4590-88f6-4a58b705a77b\" data-entity-type=\"file\"><strong>Tier IV, 1,501 or more: Tom Carbott of MHI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SMOTY awardees are known for their commitment and drive. They pay attention to the details that create an awesome show experience, leading the SMOTY judging panel to select them from among the nominees.<br \/>\nThe crystal SMOTY obelisk trophies will be presented Aug. 22 during the TSNN Awards event in New Orleans. In addition, The Expo Group will donate $500 in each honoree\u2019s name to the preferred charity. Since 2000 the SMOTY program has resulted in more than $75,000 donated by The Expo Group and matching funds honoring individual winners.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about The Expo Group SMOTY Awards and to learn about past winners, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/en\/aboutus\/smoty.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theexpogroup.com\/smoty<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>About The Expo Group<br \/>\nThe Expo Group is a trusted exposition, exhibits and events partner that invests in clients to help them grow attendee, sponsorship and exhibits revenue by creating compelling experiences from ideas to design to execution to results. The company has headquarters near Dallas with offices in Atlanta, Boston, Orlando, Las Vegas, Chicago, Austin\/San Antonio and Washington D.C. Learn more at www.theexpogroup.com or contact Dana Freker Doody directly at 972.580.9000 x1644, ddoody@theexpogroup.com.<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Expo Group Show Manager of the Year Awards Honorees Chosen for 2017 Irving, Texas \u2013 July 24, 2017 \u2013 Four show managers have been selected to receive The Expo[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[40,10,41,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c1mdevsite.com\/theexpogroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}