Corporate Meetings: Head to Head

Debbie has been in the live communications and event management industry since 1980; graduating in Economics she started her career in hotel, destination and venue marketing; since then has held international sales and marketing roles and became Managing Director of an event management company working in Brussels, Los Angeles and the UK.

Debbie joined Grass Roots UK in 2006 as Client Services Director with responsibility for developing new business and key account management for the whole portfolio of Grass Roots’ performance improvement services. She also managed the Events division within Grass Roots UK up until the merge of this team into the Marlow based Grass Roots EventCom business in 2008.

In July 2009 Debbie was appointed Global Development Director of the Meetings, Events and Communications division of Grass Roots. She has responsibility for growing this area of the business throughout the Grass Roots network of 16 countries – this includes product development, global account management, global marketing and healthcare sector growth. She brings her extensive industry knowledge and natural energy to bear in this role and is driven by responding to what our clients need from us.