Cynthia E Rossi

University of Pennsylvania
Job Title: Senior Director, Programs & Special Events
Address: 2929 Walnut Street
Suite 300
Philadelphia, PA 19104
United States
Work Phone: 2157468830 ext.
Mobile: 2156873490
Email: crossi@upenn.edu
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Please describe a past program that you feel typifies the business opportunity you represent for our partners:

Alumni Weekend where guest stay a multiple hotels in Philadelphia for 1-2 nights in mid May. We organize multiple room blocks to accommodate 2000+ people. This is an annual event.

Homecoming Weekend which takes place in Fall in Philadelphia. We organize multiple room blocks to accommodate 1000+ people. This is an annual event.

Please share with us an opportunity you are currently working on:

Same as above since they are annual events.

Every other year we hold a weekend retreat with our most generous donors and our President. We typically go to Palm Beach and Los Angeles but have also taken this group to Las Vegas and Pebble Beach. We are open to other cities. We have stayed at the Four Seasons and Ritz Carlton. This group is about 200 (1/3 are couples) and stay over 2 nights. Staff stay for 5 nights in preparation, in addition to 2 site visits prior to the program.

We also have tours that we conduct in the cities listed below. The hotel rooms are usually just for staff and faculty, approximately 20-30, and we hold the events in both hotels and nearby venues for our local alumni to that region.

In what locales have you found the greatest program successes?

Palm Beach, Florida, Chicago, DC, NYC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston

Depending on the event, we have organized them in hotels, theaters, art type venues, museums, etc.

Typical duration of meeting or incentive program. (number of nights):
Level of luxury you expect for your most important programs: Luxury: ($350-$550 per night)

If money were no object, I would: plan a destination event on a cruise line and hope to enjoy some of the rewards for myself
Something that would surprise you about me: I used to be an advanced scuba diver

Type of company Meeting / conference / event management
Average size of your programs? (number of rooms)