Mike Blackman, managing director of Integrated Systems Events, comments: "With our main Integrated Systems Europe show in Amsterdam breaking all exhibitor and attendee records this year, and further expansion inevitable, we felt it was time to bring the functions previously performed by Congrex in-house, so that they can be carried out by a dedicated team."
ISE's new Amsterdam team will be headed up by Martine Niermans, who becomes operations director. Niermans has worked for Amsterdam's RAI Convention Centre as an event co-ordinator for four years, and was the venue's ISE Account Manager when the show first came to the city in 2005.
Niermans will head up a full-time team of three, with additional short-term staff to be hired as and when events demand. They will be based at a new office located in Amsterdam's World Trade Center. "We're one train stop from the RAI and one train stop from Schiphol Airport - right between the two, in fact," Niermans observes.
(Jim Evans)
