LONDON — MBB-Consulting, the originators of the Exhibition Think Tank Club, has formed the MBB-Consulting Partner Group, with founding members Tony Calanca, Chris Meyer, CEM, CMP and Andrew Furness. The new group will assist clients with strategy, digital transformation, business change management, due diligence and market research.
“We had been a loose alliance of people who knew each other and talked regularly for a long time. One day we thought, ‘Maybe we should formalize this and make it more powerful.’ After a series of monthly calls, we decided to do it. The good thing is that we are all already consultants, so we are free to do other things as we wish and then harness the power of the collective as we can,” said Calanca, who has more than 30 years of experience in the exhibition industry, managing national and international shows for Reed Exhibitions (RX), Advanstar, UBM and Informa. He is known as one of the country’s leading specialists in large-scale exhibition management.
Meyer is CEO of ChrisMeyerGlobal, a provider of consulting services and solutions to the global events and tourism industry. He serves on the advisory board of LuvSeats.com, an innovative fan experience platform, and Linkroom.us, a new immersive face-to-face digital engagement platform. Furness is an exhibition strategy and sustainability consultant with over 30 years of experience in China, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Eurasia, Europe, the United States and the United Kingdom.
In 2020, MBB-Consulting partnered with UFI, the global association for the exhibition industry, to launch the Exhibition Think Tank Club (ETTC), a global electronic platform for exhibition industry professionals from different countries and sectors to network and share knowledge, insights and ideas. ETTC members enjoy priority access to a wide range of online, hybrid and physical events, including a recent live meeting at ExCel London during Confex.
Contact Tony Calanca at (203) 856-5350 or tony@tonycalanca.com; Andrew Furness at Andrew.Furness@mbb-consultinggroup.com; and Chris Meyer at (702) 331-1066 or chris@chrismeyerglobal.com