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programs, including their<br />
expansion to new constituencies<br />
around the world.<br />
Hertz was most recently<br />
a consultant and previously<br />
director of executive education<br />
for the Fashion Institute<br />
of Technology. Reach<br />
Eric at (646) 728-3644 or<br />
ehertz@icsc.org<br />
CHRISTIAN FALKEN-<br />
BERG was promoted to<br />
senior vice president of<br />
GLM. He had been vice<br />
president and show director<br />
of the New York International<br />
Gift Fair, which is being<br />
rebranded as NY NOW,<br />
the Market for Home &<br />
Lifestyle. Falkenberg will<br />
continue to be responsible<br />
for the day-to-day operations<br />
of the show as well<br />
as strategic development,<br />
marketing and the event’s<br />
sales and marketing team.<br />
Reach Christian at (914)<br />
421-3200 or cfalkenberg@<br />
glmshows.com<br />
TULIKA SEN was named<br />
country manager for India<br />
by i2i Events Group.<br />
She will be in charge<br />
of developing new<br />
opportunities in<br />
India and overseeing<br />
the company’s<br />
current portfolio in<br />
India, including the<br />
newly acquired Coil Winding,<br />
Insulation and Electrical<br />
Manufacturing Exhibition in<br />
Bangalore. Sen was previously<br />
with International<br />
<strong>Trade</strong> and Exhibitions<br />
India, Montgomery India<br />
and other organizers.<br />
Reach Tulika at +44 (0)<br />
203 033 2000 or tulika.<br />
sen@i2ieventsgroup.com<br />
Continued on page 66<br />
Guy Tozzoli, World <strong>Trade</strong><br />
Centers Pioneer, Passes Away<br />
New York, NY – Guy Tozzoli, founder of<br />
the World <strong>Trade</strong> Centers Association<br />
(WTCA) and a lifelong booster of world<br />
peace and prosperity through world<br />
trade, died February 2 in Myrtle Beach,<br />
SC, 10 days before his 90th birthday.<br />
Tozzoli founded the WTCA in<br />
1970 while working as director of world<br />
trade for the Port Authority of New York<br />
and New Jersey. He became WTCA<br />
president in 1987, when he retired from<br />
the Port Authority, and held the job until<br />
stepping down in 2011. Tozzoli’s vision,<br />
encouraged by some and discouraged<br />
by many, involved the planning, building<br />
and operation of the 110-story, 10 million<br />
square foot World <strong>Trade</strong> Center Twin<br />
Towers in lower Manhattan. Dedicated in<br />
April 1973, they were the tallest buildings<br />
in the world at the time. Readers’ Digest<br />
termed the project, “The largest building<br />
project since the Egyptian Pyramids.”<br />
He was a driving force behind the<br />
establishment of more than 300 world<br />
trade centers around the world, many of<br />
which feature signifi cant exhibition space<br />
and have become the leading exhibition<br />
facility in those cities or countries.<br />
In the 1990s, Tozzoli worked to launch<br />
world trade centers in South and North<br />
Korea. That effort, along with his lifelong<br />
belief that world peace could be fostered<br />
by world trade, earned him a nomination<br />
for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997, 1998<br />
and 1999.<br />
His accomplishments and contributions<br />
to the role of trade shows in international<br />
commerce earned him a place on the<br />
cover of the November 2009 issue of<br />
<strong>Trade</strong> <strong>Show</strong> <strong>Executive</strong>.<br />
In 1993, when the terrorist truck<br />
bombing seriously damaged the Twin<br />
Towers, Tozzoli was trapped in a staircase<br />
for three hours. On September 11,<br />
2001, he was stuck in traffi c and just<br />
about to enter the Holland Tunnel.<br />
Looking across the Hudson River,<br />
he saw fi re in the North Tower and<br />
then watched in horror as the second<br />
plane slammed into the South Tower.<br />
In a letter to WTCA members shortly<br />
after, he mourned the tremendous loss<br />
of life, but said, “We must redouble our<br />
efforts to bring the world together under<br />
Exhibitions and<br />
World <strong>Trade</strong>. Guy Tozzoli [center]<br />
discusses world trade centers and their role<br />
in the exhibition industry in 1985 with Darlene<br />
Gudea, currently president of <strong>Trade</strong> <strong>Show</strong><br />
<strong>Executive</strong> Media Group, and the late Bryan<br />
Montgomery, 2002-2008 WTCA chairman<br />
and former director of the Andry Montgomery<br />
Group and past president of UFI.<br />
the banner of ‘Peace and Stability<br />
Through <strong>Trade</strong>.’”<br />
“Guy did so very much that encompassed<br />
the world, from The World’s Fair<br />
to world trade,” noted Ghazi Abu Nahl,<br />
chairman of the WTCA board of directors<br />
and chairman of World <strong>Trade</strong> Centers<br />
Holdings (Cyprus) Ltd. “He was fi rst and<br />
foremost a citizen of the world, and the<br />
world is a better place thanks to his Herculean<br />
efforts. We will miss him greatly.”<br />
Reach Ghazi at +357 25588811 or<br />
ghazi@nestco.org<br />
www.<strong>Trade</strong><strong>Show</strong><strong>Executive</strong>.com | March 2013 65
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