New chairman for MIA
Michael Scroop has been elected new chairman of the Meetings Industry Association in the UK.
He is founder and CEO of Australian software company Parrimark Technology.
The association’s agm in London heard that 74 new members had joined in the past year, a growth of 20%.
Scroop said he would continue to modernise the MIA “to ensure that we continue to fully reflect the needs of our members and to widen the appeal and benefits of the MIA to the widest possible audience”.
He called on the MIA to capitalise on the opportunity created by London staging the 2012 Olympic Games.
“When our nation hosts the Olympic Games, the evidence from past host cities, and my personal experience of Sydney 2000, shows that staging the Games can provide an enormous economic boost,” he said. “We must therefore capitalise on this opportunity and that’s where I see the MIA’s role – to support its members and the industry at large to maximise that benefit.”
Report by Phil Davies
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