CAEM Past Presidents
CAEM was officially incorporated in 1983. Prior to that the organization operated as the Association of Trade & Consumer Exhibitions (ATCE).
Below is a list of CAEM's past presidents by decade.
2020s
2022-2024 – Jill Kivett
2020-2022 – Bianca Kennedy
2010s
2018-2020 – Catherine MacNutt
2016-2018 – Jennifer Allaby
2014-2016 – Sherry Kirkpatrick
2012-2014 – Lisa McDonald
2010-2012 – Isabella Wai, CEM
2000s
2008-2010 – Stephen Dempsey
2006-2008 – Naomi Wagschal, CEM, CMP
2005-2006 – Julie Pike
2003-2005 – Anita Schachter
2001-2003 – Jennifer Banfield, C.D.E.
2000-2001 – Megan Parry
1990s
1998-2000 – Jennifer Banfield, C.D.E.
1996-1998 – Elizabeth McCullough, C.D.E.
1994-1996 – Carol Le Noury
1993-1994 – Donna Wood
1991-1993 – Jim Mahon, C.D.E., CEM
1989-1991 – Jon Denman, C.D.E.
1980s
1987-1989 – Stephen Nichols, C.D.E.
1985-1987 – Robert Gowdy
1983-1985 – Hugh Macgregor
1982-1983 – Edwin Kastner, C.D.E., CEM
1980-1982 – Georgia Prassas
1970s
1978-1980 – Ken White
1976-1978 – Donald Blanchard
1974-1976 – John Fisher
1972-1974 – Harold Shield