FRANCE – The chairman of Business Strategies Group (BSG), Paul Woodward, is now the managing director of global exhibition industry association UFI, following the retirement of Vincent Gérard.
Woodward served as UFI Asia/Pacific regional manager since 2004. In 2000 he founded BSG, a business intelligence and strategy consulting firm specialising in business media, information and events in Asia.
Commenting on Woodward’s appointment, the association’s president Manfred Wutzlhofer says: “UFI members will certainly appreciate the seamless management transition facilitated by Paul’s move from east to west. Heading up the UFI headquarters team in Paris, Paul will ensure that we pursue our programmes and services and continue to successfully support the business objectives of our members and the exhibition industry worldwide.”
Woodward was based in Hong Kong and involved in the development of business media and events in the Asia Pacific region since 1985. He has conducted more than 500 business intelligence and strategy consulting projects since 1990.
Prior to founding BSG he was MD of Asian Strategies Ltd, the research and strategy consulting division of Miller Freeman Asia. He was also a director of Miller Freeman Asia, now UBM Asia.
“I am deeply grateful to Vincent Gérard for the incredible job he has done over the last nine years leading the UFI team and which gives us a very strong platform on which to develop new products and resources for our members,” commented Woodward.