New York, November 13, 2001 - The BiZBash Idea Center (www.bizbash.com), the first comprehensive media outlet for corporate event planners, meeting planners and hospitality executives, announced today that Chad Kaydo, age 27, has been promoted to Editor in Chief. Kaydo most recently was the Executive Editor of BiZBash. In his new role Kaydo will take on the senior editorial position at BiZBash. He will continue to be responsible for content on the BiZBash.com site and the weekly BiZBash Event Style Alert and BiZBash Event Calendar online newsletters. The BiZBash Event Style Reporter, a print newspaper, will debut in early 2002.

According to BiZBash CEO and Founder David Adler, "Chad has been critical in developing BiZBash’s content, both online and in print. His high journalistic standards and sense of style have helped to create a new media brand that has had an important impact on the event, meeting and business entertaining industry in just a short time.”

“During the recent problems in New York City, Chad proved the power of niche Internet journalism by his thoughtful coverage of the event industry’s response and the on-going recovery,” Adler continued.

Previously, Chad was an associate editor at Sales & Marketing Management magazine. He wrote about topics including event marketing, travel and e-commerce. Chad earned degrees in journalism and English at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and has also written for POZ magazine.

The BiZBash Idea Center is a free online and offline resource center for special events and business entertaining professionals that was created to fill a real need: to find localized "nooks and crannies" information to help in producing effective events. BiZBash.com is the most extensive database of the best event resources and has pages of industry gossip, personality profiles and coverage of all types of parties and events.