NEWS AND NOTES FOR THE MEETINGS AND CONVENTIONS INDUSTRY
Artfully Aware ‘Philosophical Tree’ is the world’s first air- purifying mural. See p. 24.
Seeing Orange Yulita Osuba, Kathie Canning, and Jan Addisson are a rare all-female convention-center management team, leading Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center — which in January will host PCMA 2013 Convening Leaders.
Executive Action at the OCCC I
t’s no secret that while the meetings industry is made up predominantly of women, leadership positions are disproportionately filled by men. For example, while 85 percent of the respondents to Convene’s 2012 Salary
Survey were women, male respondents earned an average salary of $81,161 — compared to women’s $69,408 average salary. Which is what makes recent developments in the C-suite at the Orange
County Convention Center (OCCC) in Orlando so noteworthy. In July and August, Mayor Teresa Jacobs appointed three women to executive-level management positions at the OCCC: Kathie Canning, as general manager;