David Adler is founder and CEO of BiZBash Media (BizBash.com and BizBash magazine), the source for essential information about event marketing, meeting and planning, and business entertaining in NYC, Los Angeles/Southern California, Toronto, and Florida. The company hosts the annual BiZBash/M&C Meeting and Event Style Show attended by the industry's top professionals. In 2005, the company’s annual award show was featured in the center column of The Wall Street Journal. In 2004, Adler was named one of the “25 Most Influential Leaders” in the meeting and event industry by Meeting News magazine. From 1994 until 2000, Adler was VP of corporate communications for PRIMEDIA and held the same post at Macmillan Inc. from 1988 to 1990. In those positions, Adler was responsible for events, public relations, charitable giving, branding, and oversaw projects including the Notre Dame University Conference on the Holocaust. Events projects included the 50th anniversary of Seventeen magazine, the 25th anniversary of New York magazine, the annual New York magazine awards, the 100th anniversary of the Daily Racing Form, and the annual Soap Opera Digest awards celebration. From 1990 until 1993, Adler was VP of media relations and cause-related marketing, where he developed and oversaw the initial Avon Breast Cancer Initiative, the Reebok Human Rights awards, the Polaroid Missing Children Program, and the John F. Kennedy Library Profiles in Courage awards. At the age of 21, Adler founded the Washington magazine Dossier, which covered power, society, politics, and entertaining in the nation’s capital and was one of the pioneers of the regional luxury magazine explosion currently taking place.  

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