PMPA is excited to announce the hiring of Harry Centa, Jr., as Director of Membership. Many of you may know Harry from PartnerShip, PMPA’s affinity shipping partner, where he was employed for the last 18 years and rose to senior program manager.  Harry attended many PMPA national meetings over those years representing the PartnerShip affinity partner table

With 25 years of sales and marketing-related experience, and having a good familiarity with PMPA and our membership, we expect he will get up to speed rather quickly.   In addition to membership sales, Harry has also been tasked with managing and growing our affinity partnerships for the benefit of all members.

Harry will officially join the PMPA team on June 3, 2024.  Together, we will work to create a long-term membership plan while carefully tracking all our recruiting efforts in order to present specific and realistic membership goals when our new 3-year strategic plan is constructed in January, 2025.

Please join us in welcoming Harry to PMPA!

Welcome Harry Centa to PMPA!

After ten years at our current location, PMPA will be moving their headquarters to a more space-efficient office.

The new location is about a mile from the current location.  It will house all local staff and include a new video and podcast studio!

We have been busy cleaning out and purging outdated (paper) files and have found some pretty cool stuff….like 8″ flat floppy disks and (even more) vintage NSMPA photos!

We are all very excited about the move.  The week of May 20 may be a disruptive week for us, but we’ll be around to answer phones and emails!

Official first day in the new office:  Tuesday, May 28

PLEASE MAKE A NOTE OF THE NEW ADDRESS:

6900 South Edgerton Road, Suite 107
Brecksville, Ohio  44141
(the phone number remains the same!)

Please note that PMPA’s Billing Address remains the same:

1651 Crossings Parkway

Westlake, OH  44145

Monica Reyes Vazquez is PMPA’s newest team member!  Her very first day was the first day of the National Technical Conference in Cincinnati and she enjoyed meeting members while there.  Monica comes to PMPA from the Cleveland Clinic and is PMPA’s new Office Coordinator. 

Welcome, Monica! 

The National Technical Conference held in Cincinnati, Ohio last week was a big success!  We had 259 members attend from 99 companies and 82 first timers.  Networking, learning and problem-solving filled the sessions, hotel hallways and gatherings.  A big thank you to all our speakers, mentors and members of the Technical Program Committee – you make this conference valuable. 

Another big thank you to our sponsors whose support helps keep the registration fees reasonable.

Any available session slide decks are available for download (PDFs) at the link below.  They are password-protected (you’ll need your PMPA password to access).