Gary Shirmacher, CMP
Director
Experient
Term: 2006-2008

Gary Schirmacher has twenty-one years of experience in the hotel and meeting planning industry.

Gary joined Conferon, Inc., now known as Experient , in January 1996, as the Director for the Western Region.. He was awarded the company's highest award, the Pinnacle Award, in 2005. He is currently the Senior Vice President/Western Region for Experient.

Gary is a member of PCMA, MPI and CSAE. He is a Past-President of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of PCMA and is currently serving a three (3) year term on the PCMA Board of Directors. He has been the Chairman for the Meetings Industry Council of Colorado since 2002. Gary serves on the Metropolitan State College of Denver's Hospitality School Advisory Board.

He also is a frequent speaker at National Industry meetings including: PCMA, CESSE, Meetings Industry Council of Colorado and MPI-RMC.

Experient is the source for integrated meeting and event solutions. With a vision to perfect the event experience and a mission to help bring people together to drive business, we have joined together the three leading event services companies (Conferon, ExpoExchange and ITS) into one centrally managed resource for full-service, customized registration, housing, event management and lead retrieval services.

This year Experient will create memorable experiences at more than 3,000 events attended by 3.3 million people who will occupy and will drive purchasing of more than 4.72 million hotel room nights.