The managing directors of NürnbergMesse, Dr. Roland Fleck and Peter Ottmann, have named Thorsten Böhm as the new Director of the NürnbergConvention Center. Böhm succeeds Friedhelm Lenz, who has retired after almost thirty years of managing the Center. "We are very excited to have Thorsten Böhm, a real home-grown talent, take on the role," says Dr. Roland Fleck. The NürnbergConvention Center is one of the major convention and congress centres in Germany and Europe and provides space for over 14,000 people in three areas. In 2011 the NürnbergConvention Center achieved a turnover of 13.2 million euros.
Thorsten Böhm, Director NürnbergConvention CenterThorsten Böhm (38) knows the event business at the NürnbergConvention Center like nobody else. He has, after all, been a member of the team for twelve years. As a Senior Advisor he was previously responsible for events such as ConSozial, the largest congress and exhibition for the social market in the German-speaking world, or Kommunale, the leading German exhibition and congress for municipal requirements. Thorsten Böhm, an Event Management and Business Administration graduate, worked closely with Friedhelm Lenz, who managed the NürnbergMesse congress division for over 27 years.
"Business knowledge""With Thorsten Böhm we have managed to obtain someone with knowledge of the congress business and who represents what makes the NürnbergConvention Center special; namely orientation towards customer requirements and the professional expertise of a leading European and German convention centre", says Jan Gerrit Ebener, Member of the NürnbergMesse Management Board. "Thorsten Böhm therefore represents continuity, which, with regard to high satisfaction, can only be beneficial to the customers".
The NürnbergConvention Center comprises the NCC West, NCC Mitte and NCC Ost convention centres and provides space for over 14,000 people. The decentralised location of the centre ensures that the exhibition halls are always directly connected and can therefore be used together with the centres. "The convention centres can be used both on their own and in connection with the halls. Event ensembles that are independent of one another can thus take place according to event and customer requirements", says Thorsten Böhm, describing the advantages of the NürnbergConvention Center.
Events with over 1,000 participantsMajor prestigious congresses take place at the NürnbergConvention Center, for example the International Congress of Hearing Aid Acousticians (Internationaler Hörgeräteakustiker-Kongress), the International Congress of German Ophthalmic Surgeons (Internationaler Kongress der deutschen Ophthalmochirurgen) and the DOAG Conference & Exhibition. These congresses often take place with accompanying exhibitions and congress trade fairs (ConSozial and Kommunale) as well as corporate events. It is particularly suitable for events with over 1,000 participants.
About the NürnbergMesse GroupNürnbergMesse is one of the 20 largest exhibition companies in the world and among the Top Ten in Europe. The portfolio covers some 120 national and international exhibitions and congresses and approx. 40 sponsored pavilions at the Nürnberg location and worldwide. Every year, around 30,000 exhibitors (international share: 37 %) and up to 1.4 million visitors (international share of trade visitors: 21 %) participate in the own, partner and guest events of the NürnbergMesse Group, which is present with subsidiaries in China, North America, Brazil and Italy. The group also has a network of 46 representatives operating in 97 countries.
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