Francisco Quereda, director of the Malaga Convention Bureau, has recently been elected as the new president of the Iberian Chapter of the International Congress & Conventions Association (ICCA), a post he will occupy until 2017, at the chapter’s assembly held on the Algarve (Portugal). Quereda replaces Alexandra Toregao, congress director of the Lisbon Congress Centre, after completing her two-year mandate.
The new board of directors of ICCA Iberian Chapter, which has also been renewed, includes in addition to Francisco Quereda, Ricardo Vieira (Madeira Promotion Bureau), Christoph Tessmar (Barcelona Convention Bureau), Jose Toste (Azores Promotion Board), Carina Montagut (Fira de Valencia) and Eva Sanchez (Hotel Auditorium Madrid). Carmen Aguirregomezcorta will continue to manage the chapter’s secretariat.
Before occupying the post of director of the Malaga Convention Bureau in 2006, Francisco Quereda worked for 12 years for a DMC based on the Costa del Sol, representing the USA’s best incentive houses. Before that, he was sales and marketing director of a number of hotel chains and luxury properties in Marbella, Madrid and Seville for nine years. Quereda has been president of the Spain Chapter of MPI for two years and is one of the co-founders of the Forum of Meeting and Event Industry Associations (APCE, AFE, ICCA Iberian Chapter, MPI Spain Chapter, OPC España, SpainDMC and SITE Spain Chapter).
Francisco Quereda
