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The Bruno Group, an international event marketing, management and communications firm was founded in 1994 by Michelle and Paul Bruno, a husband and wife team of marketing and event industry professionals. In 2001 The Bruno Group formed a subsidiary called Bruno Group Turnkey Events with Karen Peña, A Park City, UT-based meeting planner and events industry professional. The Bruno Group companies offer clients a broad range of services in the following areas: • Full service event marketing services including concept design, production of print and web based collateral materials and media relations for meetings, conferences, exhibitions and corporate events. • Turnkey domestic and international event management services for meetings, conferences, exhibitions and corporate events including event registration and housing • Concept, design, writing, editing and production of customized and syndicated corporate publications for clients in the international events industry including newsletters (electronic and print), magazines, newspapers, Internet/Intranet web site content, editorial Principals
 Michelle Bruno, Principal, The Bruno Group • As Vice President and Director of On Site Operations for American Exhibition Services International, 1984 –1994, handled transportation logistics and on site operations for over 400 domestic and international trade shows in 14 countries including the U.S. • Published over one hundred articles on domestic and international event planning and event industry technology for industry publications such as Expo Magazine, Tradeshow Week, Tradeshow and Exhibitor Magazine, Exhibitor Times, Exhibitor Magazine, EventWeb, Successful Meetings, Meetings News, Technology Meetings, Exhibit City News, Fast Forward, International Event Planner.digital and Global View. • Published and edited the Fast Forward™ Newsletter for exhibition organizers from December of 1997 to March of 1999. • Currently edits and publishes International Event Planner.digital (www.iepdigital.com), an online publication for international meeting and conference planners, exhibition organizers and exhibitors. • Current Editor of Global View, a newsletter for the clients of R.E. Rogers, Inc., (www.rerogers.com) an international exhibition transportation logistics company. • Contract meeting planner for East Coast-based Professional Meeting Planners Network and Meeting Candidate Network handling on site meeting coordination in Salt Lake City for PMPN and MCN clients • Member International Association of Exposition Managers, Meeting Professionals International, Salt Lake Convention and Visitors Bureau, Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce
 Paul A. Bruno, Principal, The Bruno Group• Principal of Bruno, Debaritault and Williams, marketing and public relations firm, 1995 -1999 • Organizer of Robert Bly and John Lee conferences, 1995 and 2000 in cooperation with Salt Lake Men’s Association • Handles marketing and promotional campaigns for highly visible Utah based companies. Projects have included client incentive programs, public relations campaigns, print advertising, design and placement, design and printing of collateral materials, web site design, corporate makeovers, television commercials, trade show booth design, event promotion. • Manages speaker’s office of Devon Harris, Captain Jamaican Bobsled Team arranging several major public relations campaigns in Arizona, Nevada, Utah and California • Manages corporate sponsorship program for Travis Bell, driver U.S. Bobsled team and Jim Shea, world champion skeleton racer • Operates Olympic Speaker Resource Center • Marketing and Sponsorship Director for Local Organizing Committee (sub-organization of Salt Lake Olympic Committee) in charge of World Cup Bobsled and Skeleton races |