Reston, Va., March 26, 2012?John M. Palatiello & Associates, Inc. (JMP&A), the association management firm for MAPPS, has promoted Nick Palatiello from Marketing Communications Manager to Vice President for External Affairs. In this new role Nick will oversee the development and implementation of strategies and lead efforts to promote membership of private sector geospatial in MAPPS. He will oversee and manage the day-to-day operations of MAPPS state chapters inPennsylvaniaandColoradoand assist the Executive Director in the development of new chapters. He will serve as Assistant Executive Director for External Affairs in MAPPS.???This promotion will position Nick to expand the communications activities of MAPPS, with our current members, prospective new members, and other targeted audiences with which MAPPS enjoys partner and stakeholder relationships,? said John M. Palatiello, President of John M. Palatiello & Associates and MAPPS Executive Director. ?He brings a valuable combination of enthusiasm and knowledge of messaging and branding that will help grow our organization and those we are honored to manage.???As marketing and communications manager Palatiello developed new initiatives to engage the geospatial community, including the integration of social media tools into web-based marketing, developed a robust network with the geospatial media and guided MAPPS internal and external communications efforts. He has been the liaison the PA-MAPPS, the first state chapter of MAPPS, since the founding in 2007.?Prior to joining JMP&A, Nick served as the athletic marketing and promotions assistant atWoffordCollegeinSpartanburg,South Carolina. In that position, he worked with corporate sponsors, alumni and students in event marketing and management. A 2006 graduate ofElonUniversityinElon,North Carolina, he received his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in communications with an emphasis in corporate communications and minored in political science. He is a member of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE).
About MAPPS
Formed in 1982, MAPPS is the only national association exclusively comprised of private firms in the remote sensing, spatial data and geographic information systems field in theUnited States. The MAPPS membership spans the entire spectrum of the geospatial community, including Member Firms engaged in satellite and airborne remote sensing, surveying, photogrammetry, aerial photography, LIDAR, hydrography, bathymetry, charting, aerial and satellite image processing,GPS, andGISdata collection and conversion services. MAPPS also includes Associate Member Firms, which are companies that provide hardware, software, products and services to the geospatial profession in theUnited Statesand other firms from around the world. Independent Consultant Members are sole proprietors engaged in consulting in or to the geospatial profession, or provides a consulting service of interest to the geospatial profession.
MAPPS provides its 160+ member firms opportunities for networking and developing business-to-business relationships, information sharing, education, public policy advocacy, market growth, and professional development and image enhancement.
For more information on MAPPS, please visit www.MAPPS.org.
About JMP&A?
John M. Palatiello & Associates, Inc. (JMP&A) is a public affairs consulting firm based in theWashington,D.C.area.
Formed in 1987, JMP&A has provided public relations, association management, strategic planning, and management and marketing consulting services to private firms, associations, and government agencies with an emphasis on the architecture and engineering; geospatial, mapping andGIS; information technology; construction; transportation and infrastructure sectors.
Our team of professionals has more than 30 years of combined experience in government relations, government contracting and association management. We have worked with small firms of less than five employees to Fortune 500 corporations.
For more information on JMP&A, please visit www.jmpa.us.
Source: http://eijournal.com/2011/jmpa-promotes-nick-palatiello-to-vice-president-of-external-affairs
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.