Lexington Marketing International, Inc.®

Was established in 1993 by Hal Lord, a former COMDEX executive, one the worlds most influential IT conferences and expositions.   Under Lord's direction LMI has focused on the role international business development and sales represent in enhancing the competitive positioning and profitability of US based organizations committed to global expansion.  "Global expansion achieved through skillfully formed strategic alliances represented some of the key ingredients in the  rapid growth and development of the COMDEX brand", claims Lord.   Since COMDEX, Lord has participated in the global expansion of multi-national companies as varied as IBM, Microsoft, Gartner Research, Forrester Research, IDG World Expo, Mecklermedia, DCI, Jupitermedia, CMP, and more recently as Vice President of Sales at the Venetian Resort, in Macau (SAR), P. R. China.  LMI also provides feasibility studies market reseach to US based institutional investors and Private Equity Funds interested in participating in large scale master planning and economic development projects in the Asia/Pacific region.

Key Management:

LMI project management teams are headed up by George Fournier a twenty year veteran of the MICE industry.  George possesses an MBA from University of Louisville and is multi-lingual speaking Spanish, Portuguese, Papiamento and German.  George was instrumental in expanding Comdex and the International Travel Industry Expo (ITIX) throughout Latin America during his tenure at The Interface Group (TIG), Needham, MA.  Subsequent to George's TIG experience he  joined Mecklermedia in furthering the rapid expansion of Internet World in Latin America and the EU.  When Internet World was acquired by Penton, George was retained among key staff as an international business development specialist.  George joined LMI in 2002 and has continued his thought leadership and industry influence as LMI's Vice President of Marketing and Sales.