President Peter W. Nathan, PWN Exhibicon International, one of the icons in the exhibition industry's most well-known and legendary, has announced that he will retire after 58 years of service.
"Now is the time ... I'm in this industry has been 58 years," Nathan said. "No, I want to disappear. Many volunteer opportunities, I would like to work."
Nathan, who is 80, started in this industry when he was a 22-year-old, worked with Saul the Po liak Clapp and Poliak.
, "Nathan said:" I have a fabulous mentor. "His company generates a lot of super organizers."
He added, the Reed Exhibitions, EJ Mike Las Brad 克劳斯内德 Klaus and Patrick LaFramboise, recently retired president and CEO of the International Woodworking Fair, all the work Clapp Poliak.
Nathan Road, with the company 30 years ago, and then bought a Reed and his transfer to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, and then started his own company.
In his long career, Nathan also have the opportunity to a lot of people, he said that he is "the most exciting mentor."
He said: "I was a mentor, a lot of people have become super organizers.
Those mentees is very close to home - his daughter, Leslie Street, ran the New York International Gift Fair, George Little Management Company for 20 years.
In addition, the Biotechnology Industry Organization ROBBI Lycett, who is responsible for the "BIO International Convention in Nathan secretary.
, "Nathan said:" I could see that she does not need to sit behind a desk, only need to enter.
Klaus and LaFramboise also worked for him, he added.
Nathan credited to have introduced a number of innovations, has become the industry standard, including the use of a floor manager at the show, exhibition space mapping techniques, the original "credit card" lead retrieval system, with events and create Exhibitor Service Manual . "
"Now almost every one of the main exhibition hall manager ... space drawings ... there are a lot of mix and joint venture partnerships, did not happen today," said Nathan.
From his 58-year perspective, Nathan saw an overall evolution in this industry. "The industry has already occurred great changes, mainly because of the technology, consolidate and social media marketing with the participants," he said.
Nathan also has access to international markets, the first of the former Soviet Union in the early 1970s, the pioneers of the industry trade shows in the United States, when he saw an article in the New York Times, the U.S. / Soviet newly established Board of Trade, New York commercialization of purpose between the two countries.
, "Nathan said:" I went to look at their trade show in the United States. "Well, a few years later, I see that there will be a U.S. / China Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, so I do the same thing."
These two international raid followed by Cuba and Libya.
Nathan also has been very active in the trade show industry organizations as a long-term member of the International Exhibition Project Association and the Association of Independent Show organizers and organizers of trade fairs in the United States, a founding member of one.
"Opportunity to learn from others it easier to participate in meetings and activities of these associations," Nathan said.
He added that now, he will have to retire, which will allow him more time to continue to volunteer organizations, such as scores, which retired business executives advising entrepreneurs to start looking for the company.
Nathan also plans to do more traveling, even though he and his wife, Sandy, has been nearly 100 countries around the world.
, "Nathan said:" I've been to a lot of attractive places in the world. Opportunities across the industry, is remarkable. "
He said that he miss the most day-to-day work of so many years of trade show industry network exchange.
"I've done a lot of personal friends in the industry," he added. "I had a fabulous career."
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