Gineen Fulton, CMP, started her career in 1990 working for Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises as a special events manager for Ed Debevic’s restaurant in Beverly Hills. She planned special events ranging from birthday parties for ten to movie premiere buyouts for 600. In 1994, she became director of sales & marketing for McCormick and Schmick’s seafood restaurant in downtown Los Angeles. In 2000, she relocated to San Diego and was hired as a meeting manager by Concepts Worldwide, a prestigious third party meeting planning company. For the past ten years she has managed corporate, pharmaceutical and incentive programs ranging from 15 to 2,250 attendees and has traveled both internationally and domestically. She received her CMP certification in the spring of 2002 and was the CMP study chair and committee lead for two years for the local San Diego chapter of Meeting Professionals International.