 Michael
T. LoBue, CAE, has served
as executive director and board member to various non-profit organizations
since 1980. LoBue entered into the association management business in 1993
to provide the computing industry with a highly experienced professional
alternative to existing management options.
As an independent marketing consultant from '90 to '93, LoBue developed
marketing
strategies for workflow products, professional technology services, and
high-performance
desktop communications products. As a marketing manager at Sun Microsystems, he developed and implemented
marketing strategies for the higher education market.
At Carnegie
Mellon University, LoBue was an assistant
vice president and a member of the management
team that brought together the University's
computing, library, information, and communications
services.
LoBue has an M.S. in Management & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University
and an A.B. from the University of California at Berkeley.
Memberships & Current Board Positions:
Michael Majdalany, CAE, joined L&M in 1998. He spent 10
years at Sun Microsystems, where he was last the Director of Worldwide
Marketing for the Academic & Research Computing group, having helped Sun build
its education market into a $600 million business.
A 20 year veteran of the computer industry, Majdalany has a broad international
background that includes four years in Europe and the Middle East. Prior to Sun,
Majdalany helped launch a start up, Wedge Innovations, as director of marketing.
He began his marketing career with four years at Hewlett-Packard as product manager
and channel marketing manager. On the technical side, he spent four years as a
software developer, focusing on enterprise management solutions.
Majdalany has an MBA from Stanford as well as a M.S. in Engineering from MIT,
and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and Mathematics from SUNY Buffalo. He is
fluent in French and Arabic.
Memberships:
Mary McCue joined L&M as
the head of its newly formed London-based subsidiary in July 2001.
She began her career in association management in 1989 as an International
Marketing Specialist at Smith Bucklin & Associates in Washington DC, where
she conducted worldwide export promotion programs under USDA grant funding
for three associations in the agricultural commodities and agribusiness sectors.
In 1994, she left Washington to launch Interel Association Management in Brussels,
Belgium. During her tenure as Director of IAM Brussels from 1994-2001, Mary
served as Executive Director or Marketing Director EMEA for six trade
associations,one professional society and one international (European) trade federation.
The industry and professional sectors of her clients included food &
agriculture,human resource management, strategic account management, telecommunications &
networkcomputing, manufacturing & home textiles.
Before entering the association management profession, Mary worked in marketing
for the translation division of Berlitz International and at the Institute
of European Studies in Vienna, Austria. She has lived and worked in Europe
for nearly 10 years and speaks German and French in addition to her native
(American) English.
McCue holds a B.A. in German Studies from Rice University.
Memberships:
- European and American Societies of Association Executives.
Chris Lyon, CAE, brings
18 years of nonprofit management and administrative experience and ten years
experience in the computing industry, having held management positions in Fibre
Channel product companies, including Marketing Communications Director with
Connex. Lyon has also been a marketing consultant to a number of storage
industry firms. In the past he has served on the boards of Fibre Channel
Loop Community and the FCIA.
Lyon's industry marketing experiences
encompasses all aspects of trade show management, development
and oversight of marketing communications
including establishing annual budgets for
messaging and implementation, product launches
and promotions, collateral material development
utilizing both in-house and outside resources.
He has planned and staged events throughout
the United States and Europe and has established
corporate marketing presence internationally.
Lyon has a B.A. in Theology and has three years of post graduate work
in administration and management. (joined L&M July, 2000)
Memberships:
- American Society of Association Executives
- Washington Society of Association Executives
- Christian Management Association
 Mary Litynski joined L&M in May of 2004
as Events and Logistics Manager. Prior to
coming to L&M, Mary worked at Sun Microsystems
in the Global Education and Research Group
as Strategic University Relations Manager.
Before her tenure at Sun, Mary worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center where she provided
project coordination, materials and labor management for a major development in an Accelerator
Physics project, called the Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator.
At the beginning of Mary's career she was an educator, where she owned and operated a Silicon
Valley licensed Montessori Kindergarten/Preschool for 56 children.
Mary holds a M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the University of San Francisco. She is fluent in
Polish and has taken Italian language courses from the Centro Linguistico Italiano Dante Alighieri
in Florence, Italy. Mary is on track to sit for the Certified Association Executive examination
in 2008.
Memberships:
- American Society of Association Executives
 Alice Tate
brings more than ten years of technology and
government marketing communications, and
familiarity with diverse technology markets,
such as digital storage, storage networking,
LAN, Internet security and supercomputing.
Prior to L&M, Alice was founder and principal of marketing communications consultancy Tate Communications,
which built upon technology clients' existing marketing programs. These programs included marketing plans,
media campaigns, trade show and event planning, telemarketing campaigns, product launches and co-marketing
initiatives. Before that, Tate worked at a LAN and storage networking hardware startup, GigaLabs, as its
Marketing and PR Manager. Tate was involved there with industry associations including the Gigabit Ethernet
Alliance, the SCSI Trade Association, the High Performance Networking Forum, and the Storage Networking
Industry Association.
Alice has a B.A. in English from the University of Rochester.
Memberships:
- American Society of Association Executives
Mike Briones, joined L&M in 2004 as a full time
accountant. In 2005 he become the firm's controller and oversees all bookkeeping and accounting functions. Briones
has held senior staff positions (e.g., CFO, Controller, VP of Finance) in non-profit organizations with annual billings
as high as $12M. Mike has broad experience in accounting policies and practices, include GAAP and FASB regulations.
Mike holds a B.S. in Accounting from De La Salle University. Mike is fluent in Tagolog.
Dina Tassell brings
over 15 years experience in administration, with more than 5 years experience
supervising administrative personnel for Arthur Anderson, in the areas of report
processing, budget preparation, work flow management, with extensive experience
in records and file management.
Tassell's role at L&M includes member records management (both physical files and database systems),
application processing, membership renewals and termination processing.
Marcia Molina has experience in customer
service, publishing and administration. She is completing her studies at San Francisco State University
with a goal of obtaining a bachelor's degree in business with a concentration in computer information
systems and a minor in management.
Marcia's role at L&M includes web site design, maintenance, activity reports, and supporting special projects,
such as product databases and online registrations. Marcia is also fluent in Spanish.
With 10 years experience in office administration, Marianne Meiser
is a veteran of tradeshow management and organization. Her skills range from managing databases to making arrangements for
conferences and meetings to customer service.
A skilled communicator, Meiser speaks fluent English, Danish, Norwegian and basic German. She graduated from the Ribe Handelsskole
College for Business and Trade in Denmark. Meiser joined L&M in April 2002 in the London branch where she is responsible for
office management. She also assists with L&M European clients.
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