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NYIGF Parent Hires COO After Restructuring

GDA Staff -- Gifts and Dec, 12/17/2010 10:58:48 AM

London, UK - dmg: events, organizer of the New York International Gift Fair, named Galen Poss to the newly created position of COO, according to Folio. Poss will report directly to chairman and CEO Suresh Kavan.

Poss' appointment comes on the heels of dmg's restructuring of its events into five business units: energy, retail, Middle East, leadership conferences and digital marketing. The NYIGF is part of the retail unit.

Poss was president of Hanley Wood's exhibitions group from 2000 to 2009. He previously worked at Miller Freeman, to which he sold his own event management company, Precision Planning & Sales, Inc. in 1993.

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