Holly W. Stevenson, CMP, is the new corporate meeting manager for Cross Country Education, a national continuing education company for healthcare professionals.

Renee Stake CMP, joined U.S. Pharmacopeia as meeting and marketing manager.

President and Creative Director of Elite Productions International Lili Shadab debuted Design House in May.

Kelly Peacy, CAE, CMP left her position as PCMA’s senior vp, education & events in mid-April to launch Insight Event Strategy, LLC, a consultancy offering strategic thinking and plans of action for all aspects of business events including experience design, conference education and program branding and messaging. A member of the PCMA staff since 2000, Peacy became vp, meetings & events in 2006 and led efforts in all PCMA face to face events including Convening Leaders, Education Conference and took on the senior vp role in 2012.

After 4 and a half years as the in-house conference planner for the National Notary Association based in the Los Angeles area, Brooke Murphy started her own business, Event Prof in The Shoals area of northwest Alabama. Event Prof is a full-service meetings and event management company covering events from dinner parties of 10 to conferences of 700 in venues all across the U.S. Murphy’s focus is on putting her skills and experiences to work in event industry advocacy and designing and producing corporate, association and social events.

Colette Fairchild, CEM, CMP, joined FirstSource Events and its parent company, International Conference Development LLC as event director. In this role, she will play a role in the development of a series of new and existing hosted buyer events, networking conferences and tradeshows. Colette will be based in Chicago.