Barbara Boggs, President, has over twenty five years’ experience in the unique world of event management. She was previously a founder and partner of WashingtonInc, a sophisticated national special events business. In August of 1994, Mrs. Boggs departed WashingtonInc to form Barbara Boggs Associates, Inc. The firm specializes in event planning, convention activities, conference planning, corporate events, fund-raising support services, and event facilities management, with a client list of associations and corporations across the U.S. Under Mrs. Boggs’ direction, creativity, protocol, security, and efficiency are brought together for Washington’s diplomatic, political, media, and corporate communities. Her accomplishments include the 1988 grand re-opening of Union Station, where she continues to oversee all private events in one of the most magnificent event spaces in Washington.

Ivan Goldberg, Vice President, has more than seventeen years’ experience working in conjunction with Barbara Boggs. Ms. Goldberg began her career in special events at Washington Inc, coming from ABC News to coordinate the annual Radio & Television Correspondents’ Dinner. She is responsible for an extensive range of special events planning with a concentration in national corporate accounts. Ms. Goldberg has been involved in events planning for annual events for organizations including the American Dental Association, Fortune 100 corporations, the National Building Museum’s Honor Award, the National Press Foundation Awards Dinner, the Radio & Television Correspondents’ Association and the National Venture Capital Association. She has also been responsible for many high profile events including the re-opening of the Hillwood Museum & Gardens, the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Awards Ceremony and Dinner, the 2001 National Building Museum Award honoring Michael Eisner and The Walt Disney Company and the National Book Festival Gala hosted by First Lady Laura Bush.

Melinda Bates, Senior Associate, recently joined BBAI after eight years as Special Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Visitors Office. While serving at America’s House she was responsible for Presidential and First Lady special events including the annual Easter Egg Roll, an event for 30,000 people, July 4th on the South Lawn, for 12,000 guests, and arrival ceremonies and state dinners for visiting heads of state. In addition, the Visitors Office administered tours for 1.5 million White House visitors each year. Ms. Bates is the only person to serve in this capacity for the full eight years of an administration. From 1985 to 1989 Ms. Bates was an exhibition supervisor at the National Gallery of Art, the world’s premier site for special exhibitions. Her unique experiences at the highest levels of national and international politics and diplomacy equip her to coordinate events from the largest and most complex to the intimate and elegant. Recent projects include the Symposium on Cochlear Implants in Children, the Radio and Television News Directors’ Foundation annual awards dinner, and the e7 Summit, an international gathering of the chairmen of the largest electrical companies in the G7 countries.

Jim Hayes, Consultant, works frequently with BBAI on high-level projects involving advance, security and protocol. He is retired from the U.S. Marine Corps where he achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. While in the Corps, he served as the Senior Marine Social Aide at the White House during the Reagan Administration. During that time, he was also the Senior Host for Marine Barracks 8th & I. In that position, he was responsible for the Commandant’s retirement attended by President Ronald Reagan. Mr. Hayes was also responsible for Admiral Rickover’s retirement ceremony, which was attended by all five living Presidents. He has assisted the American Dental Association for the past seven years at their Annual Meeting, serving as an escort and advance person to the Association’s President. He assists with the Radio and Television Correspondents Association annual dinner regularly attended by the President of the United States and First Lady.