REED Travel Exhibitions (RTE) announced last month that Paul Kennedy MBE, group exhibition director, has decided to leave the business by the middle of next month.
Kennedy said, “Since joining Reed in November 2004, I have had an exciting, truly dynamic and challenging role in building a top class team that has created the market leading portfolio of pan global events for the meetings industry.”
“This started with the re-engineering of EIBTM following its relocation to Barcelona, the launch of GIBTM in Abu Dhabi, the restructuring and re-launch of CIBTM in Beijing, the continuing development of AIME in Melbourne, the ICCA Congress Exhibition and creating the foundation for a successful launch of AIBTM,” he said.
“I have decided its now time for a break from the amazingly fast paced environment involving almost constant overseas travel. Frankly I want to take some time out, re-energise and decide what I want to do next.”