Following a fortnight of exciting online nominations, voting has closed and its time to unveil the shortlist for the Ovation Huggability Awards 2011. Ovation’s most huggable candidate of 2011 will be honoured with their 'huggability' award on the Ovation Global Stand 415 at IMEX America, Las Vegas next Tuesday the 11th of October at 2.00pm. In no particular order, here is the shortlist of this year's oh so huggable nominees .....
| The Ovation Huggability Shortlist 2011 |
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 | Fernanda Nielson (SEI Incentives, Dallas) Our second American-based nominee, Fernanda's work at SEI Meetings & Incentives has been described as "beyond the call of duty" by her nominator.
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 | Michael Burke (The Hanover Group, Boston) Michael was a pleasure to deal with when he brought the Hanover Group to Ireland. He was both a true professional and a gentleman. Behind the scenes he does a huge amount for charity particularly through his golf classic.
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 | Samme Allen (The Barbican Centre, London) Samme was nominated for being "dynamic, kind and very supportive of everyone in the meetings industry. Samme Allen is a pleasure to work with and an inspiration to the industry."
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 | Jukka-Paco Halonen (Viada Oy Ltd, Finland) A great person and an even better musician, Jukka is always there for his friends. He is well renowned for sharing his knowledge and experience which he has picked up during his well-spent years in the DMC industry.
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 | Richard Elliott (Ignite Magazine, Canada) Richard is being recognised for his education-focused contribution to the Site Canada BOD. A key part of the Canadian MICE scene, this true Canadian is quietly effective, honourable, hard-working and always looking for ways to communicate the value of our industry.
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 | Joern Lucht (conworld.net) He is huggable for consistently delivering a hugely informative and relevant daily compilation of the latest global industry developments to meeting industry professionals via the conworld.net online news tracker.
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