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7/24/2023

Pictured within the high row (l-r) are Jennifer Muna, Mike Magnotta, Jeff Gravitt, Renee Loper-Boyd. Within the backside row (l-r) are Renae Brown, Sarah Mount, Mark Crowther & Sven Koppany

ANDMORE (previously Worldwide Market Facilities)  introduced a sequence of promotions and new hires designed to propel its up to date mission: to be the premier “Omnichannel Wholesale Marketmaker.” These updates create full organizational alignment with reimagined roles in Operations, Advertising and Digital Improvements.

“Our new ANDMORE company imaginative and prescient is coming to life via strategic organizational updates that may permit us to additional optimize the shopping for and promoting expertise for our clients,” stated Bob Maricich, ANDMORE CEO. “We’re elevating ANDMORE consultants and welcoming new expertise to steer the improvements that may improve and prolong off  the worth of our bodily markets for each patrons and sellers.”

Operations

 ANDMORE is streamlining its operations staff with a brand new reporting construction. Every of the ANDMORE campuses in Atlanta, Excessive Level and Las Vegas can have a single operations lead overseeing each Constructing Operations (property administration and tenant relations, safety, and services) and Market Operations (logistics, tradeshow, occasion gross sales, and occasion operations) to supply a single level of contact for patrons.

Jennifer Muna has been promoted to SVP, Operations for Las Vegas and Shoppe Object. Muna has labored with ANDMORE for almost 6 years. Throughout her tenure she has had administration duties for tradeshow, meals and beverage and amenity operations through the Excessive Level and Las Vegas Markets. Moreover, she served as a liaison to metropolis officers, resort companions and conference and customer bureaus in each cities and was an integral member of the staff that oversaw the development and opening of the Expo at World Market Heart Las Vegas. She was named a “Individual of Affect” by In Enterprise Las Vegas and one among Commerce Present Government’s “Girls to Watch” for 2022.

Mike Magnotta has been promoted to SVP, Operations for Atlanta. Magnotta has labored on the AmericasMart campus for 14 years transitioning from Managing Director, Gross sales and Operations for AmericasMart to Vice President, Logistics and Tradeshow Operations and later Vice President, Market Operations for ANDMORE. Throughout his tenure, Magnotta efficiently launched AmericasMart Logistics – a freight forwarding service geared to supply seamless storage and delivery options for patrons. In his expanded function, he’ll work carefully with trade veteran, Bob Schuler, SVP Occasion Gross sales and Occasion and Tradeshow Operations, within the administration of ANDMORE and third-party occasions on the Atlanta Conference Heart at AmericasMart.

Jeff Gravitt has been promoted to SVP, Improvement and Building. Gravitt will proceed to steer capital and tenant enchancment initiatives throughout the Atlanta, Excessive Level and Las Vegas campuses in a centralized function that can even embody an expanded emphasis on environmental targets. He has labored with the group for 9 years along with his AmericasMart duties expanded to World Market Heart and ANDMORE’s 17 Excessive Level Market properties after the organizations merged in 2018. Throughout his tenure, Gravitt has managed a number of transformational initiatives together with the Expo at World Market Heart Las Vegas, the AmericasMart Constructing 1 Foyer Repositioning, and the brand new multi-floor Informal Furnishings Heart in Atlanta.

Muna, Magnotta and Gravitt report back to Greg Avitabile, ANDMORE government vp, chief operations officer.

“At ANDMORE, our perception in placing the shopper first is the rule of thumb for strategic updates to our strategy to operations,” stated Avitabile. “Restructuring the operations actions underneath leaders Jennifer and Mike means we are able to create a seamless buyer expertise that helps them to simpler join, develop and prosper whether or not they’re a showroom tenant, a brief exhibitor or one other occasion organizer utilizing our areas. Jeff’s management throughout the campuses will encourage innovation as we preserve our services related and efficient for patrons and sellers.”

Moreover, ANDMORE is actively recruiting for an SVP, Operations for its Excessive Level properties. candidates can be taught extra at ANDMORE.com/Careers.

Advertising

ANDMORE is reorganizing its advertising group as a subsequent step in optimizing the staff construction to completely assist the corporate’s omnichannel enterprise technique. The brand new construction creates tighter alignment with the product and leasing groups, whereas putting elevated emphasis on buyer insights and a extra customized built-in advertising strategy.

Renee Loper-Boyd has been promoted to SVP, Product Advertising. In an growth of her duties, she assumes strategic path of ANDMORE’s attire class in addition to digital product choices along with her present duties for the reward, residence decor and furnishings product and market classes. Loper-Boyd has labored with ANDMORE for greater than eight years as Vice President of Advertising along with her duties for Las Vegas Market, the Las Vegas Design Heart and ANDMORE’s Excessive Level Market properties expanded to Atlanta Market and the AmericasMart year-round choices in 2020. In her new function, Loper-Boyd and her groups are chargeable for creating data-driven, omnichannel advertising methods that align with particular person product and broader company targets. Loper-Boyd is Chairman of the WithIt (Girls’s Management Improvement Community) having served as President in 2022.

Renae Brown has been promoted to SVP, Buyer Insights. In her new function, Brown and her groups are charged with working cross-departmentally to create a 360-degree view of the shopper, create and handle buyer suggestions loops, and perceive advertising channel affect and optimization. She is going to proceed to handle the market registration course of whereas additionally taking over the added function of overseeing the Purchaser Providers Workforce charged with managing shopping for group and affiliation relationships and one-to-one outreach to patrons, as nicely the inbound Buyer Relations staff. She has labored with ANDMORE for almost 11 years, along with her function increasing from Technique Supervisor to Director of Promoting & Technique to Vice President of Advertising Analytics. She was named as one among House Furnishings Enterprise’ 40 Below 40 in 2021.

Sarah Mount has been promoted to SVP, Built-in Advertising. She leads a consolidated staff that aligns all advertising channels to create a constant tone, voice and persona for our merchandise and types. They work with the product advertising staff to develop world advertising methods, translating these into channel-specific execution plans with acceptable KPIs and monitoring mechanisms. In addition they leverage knowledge and analytics from the Buyer Insights staff to drive advertising channel optimization. Whereas working at World Market Heart Las Vegas in varied communications roles, she grew to become a member of the IMC workers as Director of Content material & Interactive Media after its 2011 formation. She transitioned to AmericasMart as Government Director of Advertising and later Vice President of Advertising for its House, Reward & Rug portfolio and continued that function for Worldwide Market Facilities upon the acquisition of AmericasMart in 2018. She then transitioned to the Vice President of Advertising function for Juniper earlier than transferring right into a broader function as VP of Digital Advertising & Content material. Mount was named as one among Reward Store’s 40 underneath 40, Class of 2019 and he or she serves on the board of the trade’s sole charity, Reward for Life.

Loper-Boyd, Brown, and Mount report back to Karen Olson, ANDMORE’s newly appointed government vp, chief advertising officer.

“To be the trade’s solely Ominchannel Wholesale Marketmaker, it’s crucial that we align our advertising group to finest assist our mission, imaginative and prescient and core values,” stated Olson. “With the distinctive skillsets and management of Sarah, Renee and Renae, we’re positioned to create a buyer centric, data-driven strategy to our strategic advertising plans and companies that ship optimum worth for patrons and sellers.”

Digital

ANDMORE continues the strategic transformation of its Digital staff following the rent of recent Chief Digital Officer Mark Crowther earlier this yr with two new staff members in roles designed to make sure the corporate stays on the forefront of the trade and innovates with clients to develop their companies utilizing data-driven insights. Sven Koppany joins ANDMORE as SVP, Digital Improvements, and Tanner Pratt joins as SVP, Insights Cloud and Engineering.

Sven Koppany: On this new function, Koppany will work throughout the Digital Improvements staff and ANDMORE to operationalize its omnichannel mission. He’ll lead the design and adoption of mechanisms that create compelling experiences for patrons and sellers utilizing new and modern expertise. An engineer by coaching, he joins ANDMORE from 6 years at Amazon Internet Providers (AWS) the place he led digital innovation. He has a B.S. in Laptop Science from Southern Polytechnic State College and an M.S. in Laptop Science from the Georgia Institute of Know-how.

Tanner Pratt: Pratt can be chargeable for creating ANDMORE’s knowledge capabilities to ship compelling insights to patrons and sellers to assist them develop their companies in new and modern methods. He joins ANDMORE from AWS the place he was International Head of Information Streaming. Pratt has an M.S. and B.S. in Administration Info Methods from Brigham Younger College.
“As we scale the ANDMORE enterprise pushed by our customer-first omnichannel mission, the long run holds new challenges and alternatives. Unstructured knowledge, synthetic intelligence and machine studying are quick turning into enterprise necessities. On this rapidly-evolving panorama, we should adapt, embrace and align on these alternatives to remain on the forefront of our trade,” stated Crowther. “Sven and Tanner carry the experience and know-how in digital innovation and knowledge engineering that we’d like at this tipping level in our trade.”

About ANDMORE

ANDMORE, previously Worldwide Market Facilities, is an Omnichannel Wholesale Marketmaker that fuels alternatives for wholesale patrons and sellers to attach, develop and prosper via bodily markets, design facilities and digital channels. The corporate owns and operates greater than 20 million sq. toes of premium occasion and showroom house, internet hosting dwell occasions in Atlanta, Excessive Level, N.C., Las Vegas, and New York Metropolis. By pairing face-to-face occasions with always-on digital instruments, ANDMORE supplies really omnichannel enterprise platforms for its world wholesale buyer base. For extra info, go to ANDMORE.com.