Alexandria, VA, December 19, 2006--Trade show management company National Trade Productions (NTP), the firm that manages ceramic and stone show Coverings, has made several management changes.
Tamara Christian, former president of NTP who has been with the company since 1992, takes on the new position of CEO where she will focus her attention on the further development of the company. Also being promoted are Jennifer Hoff to general manager; Glenn Feder to president, client events; and Paige Cardwell to president, Creative Solutions Group (CSG).
“We have a smart, passionate and dedicated group of professionals running National Trade Productions and we are thrilled to be able to reward our top employees with promotions and give more opportunity to others throughout the company,” said Bob Harar, chairman and founder of NTP. “Under Tamara’s leadership we have experienced strong growth and we know with the increased responsibility for Jennifer, Glenn and Paige we will continue to see NTP’s growing prominence in the industry.”
Jennifer Hoff, a 14 year veteran of NTP, will add general manager to her current title of vice president of operations and conferences. In this role, Jen will spearhead NTP’s focus on improved and more standardized processes and procedures.
Glenn Feder, NTP’s vice president of sales, will take on the newly created role of president of the client events division. Formerly, Glenn managed sales for NTP’s client events and proprietary events and has had great success in increasing revenue for all of NTP’s clients. His new focus will be solely on increasing value to NTP’s current clients and developing new client based business.
For five years Paige Cardwell has held two positions at NTP. She was the vice president of marketing while serving as the managing director of NTP’s strategic marketing and creative agency, creative solutions group (CSG). Paige has managed both aspects of her job with tremendous success and has grown all aspects of NTP marketing and CSG’s creative services. Paige will take over in the newly created role as president of CSG.
In addition, Elena Grant, formerly the director of marketing for the Consumer Electronics Show (the largest show in the United States) has joined NTP as the executive director of marketing for their client events division; and Carrie Jolly, who has been a director of marketing at NTP for many years, will move to creative solutions group (CSG) as a account director.
