Lori Bennett, CMP, CMM

Senior Global Project Manager

Lori brings more than 25 years meeting planning and marketing experience to ConferenceDirect. She is known by her customers as willing to go the extra mile in planning and helping them with all aspects of their meetings. She specializes in using her marketing and technical background to increase attendance, manage abstracts, facilitate registrations, and handle site selection and contract negotiation. She has a strong background in corporate, association and educational meetings, organizing annual and quarterly user group meetings, executive summits, trade shows, association, educational and non-profit organization meetings and marketing events. These events range in size from 50 attendees to 9,000 attendees.

Lori’s meeting planning experience includes planning the annual users’ conferences for Mincom, an asset management software company; Transzap, a company specializing in oil and gas financial applications; and P2 Energy Solutions, an oil and gas software company. Other clients she has worked with include Western Union, Transportation Technology Inc./Contact Mechanics Conference, Society of Automotive Engineers, Society of Range Management, Digestive Physiology of Pigs, and the National Institute of Animal Agriculture. In addition, she has planned medical meetings, sales workshops and other high tech meetings and managed registration for a franchise meeting.

As an active member of Meeting Planners International, Lori is currently on the MPIRMC Board of Directors. She was awarded the MPI Rocky Mountain Chapter Rising Star in June of 2012. Lori is an active volunteer for her son’s soccer team, her local church, and her children’s school where she has planned retreats, meetings, ceremonies and fundraising auctions. She is a Certified Meeting Professional and a Certified Conference Manager. She graduated with a BS degree in Marketing from the University of Colorado at Denver.