Paul Griffin

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Paul Griffin
Director of Meetings and Events,
Destination Marketing Association
International

Washington, D.C.
Age: 36

Paul Griffin already had racked up a long list of accomplishments before he joined DMAI seven years ago. When he was with the Greater Boston CVB, he was voted Convention Services Manager of the Year and led the convention team to two Pinnacle Awards for business excellence from the Boston COC. He met Michael Gehrisch and Elaine Rosquist while they were planning the DMAI conference (then IAVI) in Boston, and they recruited him to join the association. He’s now the director of meetings and events, overseeing 19 conferences. Griffin, a member of ACOM, PCMA, ASAE, AMPS and HIP, says there are two things he really likes about his job: getting to do something different every day and working with DMAI’s members. If Griffin had been paying attention, he might have foreseen a future in event planning when he was chosen to be chair of special events for the student council while attending St. Michael’s College in Vermont. He organized fundraising events and concerts, bringing acts like Dave Matthews Band to campus. Who knows? Maybe they’ll show at up a future DMAI event.

—Libby Hoppe