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BiZBash Names 15 Event Planners of the Year
2005 List Includes Planners From Country Music Awards,
“The Gates,” Costume Institute Gala, Clinton
Global Initiative, and Moët Hennessy |
New York, New York - December 6, 2005 - BiZBash,
the trade magazine for corporate event professionals,
released its “Event Planners of the Year”
lineup for the New York City market in an article in
its December 2005/January 2006 issue.
“This issue features the backstories and the best
strategies from 2005’s top planners,” said
BiZBash editor in chief Chad Kaydo. The planners in
the story are a disparate mix of event marketers, producers,
and strategists: Vogue’s Stephanie Winston
Wolkoff ran the Costume Institute gala, which aims to
gather New York’s top names in fashion, entertainment,
and society, while Bobette Dudley ran the Country Music
awards, which brought Nashville’s top names in
country music to New York for the ceremony’s first
out-of-town incarnation. Douglas Blonsky oversaw the
installation of Christo and Jean-Claude’s “The
Gates” in Central Park, which drew four million
people, while Dexter King sponsored a 40-person dinner
for Kanye West to promote Moët Hennessy’s
cognac. And Kim Krikorian went to other people’s
events to put up elaborate installations featuring Swaroski
crystals. With all their differences, these 15 people
show the breadth of creative ideas populating the event
business and the many ways events work as creative tools.
(Event photos and copies of the story are available.)
The complete list of BiZBash’s 2005 Event Planners
of the Year is:
- Douglas Blonsky, President, Central Park Conservency
- Shauna Brook, U.S. Director of Marketing and Special
Events, Giorgio Armani
- Diane Cremin, independent event planner, World
Magazine Congress
- Bobette Dudley, Vice President of Events and Program
Development, Country Music Association
- Sharon Enright, General Manager, Trade Show Division,
Business Journals Inc.
- Ed Filipowski and Julie Mannion, Principals, KCD
- Fawaz Gruosi, Founder, De Grisogono
- Dexter King, Senior Brand Ambassador, Moët
Hennessy
- Kim Krikorian, Communications Manager, Swarovski
North America
- Mary Morrison, Director of Operations, Clinton
Global Initiative
- Leane Romeo, President, Overland Entertainment
- Jennifer Stark, Director or Special Events, Brooklyn
Academy of Music
- Anastasia Striegel, President, One Kick LLC
- Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Director of Special
Events, Vogue
BiZBash Media is the New York authority for anyone who
plans, designs, or influences corporate and nonprofit
events in New York City. The BiZBash Web site (BiZBash.com),
newspaper, and trade show serve the business-to-business
marketplace for planners who research, produce, and advise
on more than 100,000 events held each year in New York.
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