Kellen Meetings has a history of establishing, managing and growing successful trade shows and exhibitions. We produce a wide variety of shows for several industries and professions, including for the product fund-raising industry, the research chefs profession, the messenger-courier industry, the in-flight food industry, the exhibit design industry and the healthcare exhibition industry.

Several of our professional staff hold high-level positions within a number of key organizations serving the trade show industry. Consequently, we stay up to date on issues and trends in the meeting and exhibition industry and, indeed, play an active role in formulating many of the industry’s policies and standards.

Leaders in Exhibition Management

Kellen Company Chairman and CEO Bob Gelardi is a past Board member of the Convention Industry Council and chair of the Industry Council of the Center for Exhibition Industry Research.

Eric Allen, a Vice President of Kellen Company, is Executive Vice President of the Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Association, the only trade association in North America exclusively serving the healthcare exhibit marketing industry. Eric is current Chair of the Healthcare Congress Alliance, and serves on the Convention Industry Council - Council of Delegates, the Convention Industry Council APEX Housing & Registration Panel, the Center for Exhibition Industry Research Industry Council and the Exhibit Industry Congress, where he is Chair of the Models of Success Task Force. He is co-author of the exhibits chapter of the Convention Industry Council Manual, the study guide for the Certified Meeting Professional designation.

Pete Dicks, a Vice President of Kellen Company, is Executive Director of the Exhibit Designers & Producers Association, and serves on the Board of the International Federation of Exhibition Services, which represents 14 national exhibition services associations. Pete has more than 20 years of trade show management experience on an international scale, including venues such as Singapore, Brussels, Korea and Italy, and has direct experience in working with the challenges of international logistics.

Alfons Westgeest, managing partner based in Brussels, created the Freight Forward International (FFI) group in 1994 by bringing together key players of the transport and logistics industry around customs issues. He also has organized and facilitated workshops in exhibition related industries, including the European Major Exhibition Centers Association (EMECA), and has developed a network of contacts in the European exhibition industry.

Other Kellen professionals are active members of the International Association for Exhibition Managers, Meeting Professionals International and the Exhibit Industry Congress.