In 1995, Sam Joffray founded Concept Matters, an event and new media solutions company serving blue-chip clients including the New Orleans Saints, Louisiana Superdome and College Football Playoff Group. Through his relationship with the NFL Joffray has coordinated media solutions and technical services in the Super Bowl Media Center as an NFL vendor for the past 25 consecutive Super Bowls, starting in 1997 with the Host Committee for Super Bowl XXXI (31) in his hometown of New Orleans.
In August 2013, Sheila Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television and the first African American woman billionaire, introduced Salamander Resort & Spa in Middleburg, Virginia, as the flagship of her new hospitality company, Salamander Hotels & Resorts. Named by Johnson in homage to the WWII code name of the property’s former owner, the five-star, 168-room escape has been a planner favorite ever since.
From Pittsburgh’s industrial might and the forever preserved farmland of Lancaster County to the fundamental values that built Hershey, “The Sweetest Place on Earth,” the primary group locales of the Keystone State’s central and western regions are forged into the framework and woven into the fabric of the American experience. For groups, these enduring legacies add structure, resonance and meaning to the agenda.