Ori Lahav announced as new IAPCO President
26/02/2020
Ori Lahav, Vice President Clients & Operations at Kenes Group was elected IAPCO President at the IAPCO Annual General Assembly in Vancouver. The new President takes over from outgoing President Mathias Posch for a two-year term.
Ori Lahav commented “It is a huge honour to lead an association of industry professionals and more so, to follow the footsteps of our Founder and President, Gideon Rivlin, who was President of the association 39 years ago. I am set to continue raising the standards of IAPCO together with the HQ team and the exemplary Council. No matter the hard times that we are currently facing with COVID-19 and other unrests around the world, I believe that this is the right opportunity for us to come together and prove the resilience of the events industry once more.”
Martin Boyle, IAPCO CEO, says “I have had the privilege of working with Ori during the last year in his role as IAPCO Vice President and am certain that his international experience and network will be of great value to our association.”
On the association’s agenda are these key focus areas: launching webEDGE – the new IAPCO online learning platform; a strong commitment to the IAPCO Quality mandate and an active industry outreach to communicate it; widening the Association’s reach in Latin America and APAC.
The new council has a Portuguese member: Mónica Freire, from AIM Group. She is joined by Keith Burton, African Agenda, South Africa; Jan Tonkin, The Conference Company, New Zealand; Alain Pittet, Ega worldwide congresses & events, Italy; Barbara Calderwood, MCI, UK; Sarah Markey-Hamm, ICMS Pty Ltd, Australia; Nicolette van Erven, Congress by design, Netherlands; and Alejandro Ramirez Tabche, Business Travel Consulting, Mexico.