Elizabeth M. Newton, CMP
Senior Event Manager and Director of Operations

Elizabeth M. Newton, CMP, comes to SMPR with a strong and diverse background in association meetings management. She has served as conference registrar and logistics manager with the Food Marketing Institute, the trade association for supermarkets; as well as registration and housing coordinator and client services supervisor with Convention Management Group, a third party convention management company, in her 11 years in the meetings industry.

Elizabeth has handled all aspects of conferences and conventions ranging in size from 80 – 35,000 attendees. This includes managing the registration process from programming of the database to on-site temporary staff training and supervision. She has also directed the overall customer service aspect of trade show floor operations for conventions including booth assignments, handling payments and development of financial reports. She has handled BEO’s and room sets, overseen speaker and sponsorship budgets in addition to room block management for both conferences and conventions.

Elizabeth will serve as the Senior Event Manager, who is tasked with maintaining SMPR’s standard of event management excellence while helping to grow SMPR’s event client portfolio. As Director of Operations, she will also be responsible for the day to day office operations of SMPR. 

Elizabeth earned her Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) designation in September 2008. She is a member of Meeting Professionals International (MPI) and currently serves as a member of PMPI’s (Potomac Chapter of MPI) Publications Committee. She is also serving her second term as Website Committee Chair and she is a member of MPI’s sitting Industry Advisory Panel.

Stovell Marketing & Public Relations
One Metro Center, 700 12th Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
202.588.9875 (Office/Voice)
202.403.3635 (Fax)

elizabeth@stovellmarketingpr.com