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ORGANIZATION Fuel your passion to make a genuine difference at BICSI and in the ICT community as a whole. If you feel you have the industry experience to help guide the direction of our association, nominate yourself to serve on the BICSI Board of Directors. Nominations for the following positions will be accepted from 1 April-31 May. President President Elect Treasurer EMEA Region Director U.S. North-Central Region Director U.S. Northeast Region Director Why Nominate Yourself to Serve on the BICSI BOD? • Make a real impact at BICSI and in the ICT industry. • Stand out as an active and knowledgeable ICT professional. • Increase your ICT networking pool. • Open new doors in the ICT industry. Visit bicsi.org/nominations beginning 1 April to get started. BICSI BOARD NOMINATIONS BEGIN 1 APRIL ANNOUNCING New Director of Conferences & Events, Melissa Cummiskey Page 12 Welcome Melissa Cummiskey, CMP, new Director of Conferences & Events. Melissa comes to BICSI from The Geological Society of America (GSA), where she was the Senior Director of Meetings & Events since 2008. GSA has a budget of $11 million, 55 employees and 25,000 members in 118 countries. Melissa joined GSA in 1999 and was promoted multiple times in roles of increasing responsibility. As the leader of the meetings and events department, she was responsible for the management and execution of all aspects of GSA's global meetings portfolio, ranging from 30 to 7,000-plus attendees. This included responsibility for all contracts, ensuring legal compliance, and ultimately overseeing the work of seven team members, two of which were globally based. Melissa also has produced large and complex joint meetings between GSA and related societies where GSA took the lead—the largest being a trade show that had a budget of more than $4 million, approximately 10,000 attendees and 300 exhibitors. Melissa holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Speech Communication from the University of Southern Colorado. She is an Events Industry Council (EIC) Certified Meeting Professional (CMP), an accreditation she first earned in 2004. We witnessed Melissa's talent and expertise firsthand prior to and during the 2019 BICSI Winter Conference & Exhibition. We are very proud to have her on the BICSI team.