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Bobrow & Associates brings together a network of talented individuals to ensure its clients receive the highest quality of service.  Each team member is hand-selected to match his or her experience and success with the client's needs. 

Our Vision

Bobrow & Associates is recognized as the premier association and meetings management company for its innovation, expertise, and exemplary client service.

Our Mission

Bobrow & Associates provides excellence in association and meeting management services that fosters dynamic growth and success of client associations and their volunteer leadership.  Fulfillment of client mission and vision is our measure of success.

Our Philosophy

Bobrow & Associates believes that professional trade associations, other not-for-profit organizations, and for-profit companies and organizations achieve a greater measure of success when staffed by exceptionally talented and experienced individuals.  Unfortunately, budget constraints often restrict the ability of an organization to hire such persons on a full-time basis and thus realize its maximum potential.  We provide strategic outsourcing services for its clients' sustained growth and profitability.

Bobrow & Associates services follow industry best practices and are performed with the highest level of integrity, using all ethical and legal means to assist our clients in attaining their goals, missions, and visions.

Our Values

Bobrow & Associates' values form the foundation of our organization’s commitment to our clients. 

  • ·   We deliver to our clients the highest quality of professional services

  • ·   We accept only projects for which we are qualified and refuse those beyond our competency

  • ·   We keep proprietary and confidential information confidential

  • ·   We avoid all conflict of interest situations

  • ·   We achieve success when our clients’ expectations are exceeded

  • ·   We accept new clients only up to our ability to manage their businesses

  • ·   We approach the conduct of our clients’ business with the highest level of integrity and accountability

  • ·   We treat our clients’ members/customers with respect and respond promptly to their needs.

  • ·   We avoid working with competing clients at the same time.

Our Founder

MaryAnne Bobrow is both a Certified Association Executive and a Certified Meeting Professional.  She has been in the association management and meetings industry for more than fifteen years.  She founded Bobrow & Associates more than three years ago, after having served as dedicated staff (Executive Director) for various associations.  She has organized board and annual meetings, conferences, trade shows and a variety of other events, including golf tournaments and fun runs.  She is also experienced in coordinating summer intern programs, having done so for Hewlett Packard's Roseville, CA campus.  She is an active member of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), California Society of Association Executives (CalSAE), Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA), International Association for Exhibition Management, and Meeting Professionals International (MPI), serving on the board of directors for the Sacramento Sierra Nevada Chapter of MPI and on the Capital Regional Council for CalSAE.  She has taught a variety of classes in Golden Gate University's distance learning program, including convention and meetings management, introduction to meetings management, exposition management, special event management and worldwide tourism.  She now teaches in California State University Sacramento's Meeting Planner Certificate Program (Using 21st Century Technology to Plan Meetings & Events and Marketing and Promotions), and in the University of Las Vegas' distance learning program (Trade Show Operations.  Beginning in January 2005, she will also teach Association Management at UNLV.  She was named CalSAE's Association Executive of the Year in 2004-2005 and MPI Sacramento Sierra Nevada's Planner of the Year in 2005-2006. 

Mary Anne Bobrow is a founding member of The Mavens Network, a group of experienced hospitality industry individuals who speak on strategic issues impacting the way business is done now and in the future.  For more information, contact The Mavens Network  at info@TheMavensNetwork.com.

MaryAnne Bobrow maintains active membership in the following organizations:

                          

Our Associates

Overseeing Bobrow & Associates' finance and operations falls to Bob Bobrow, who has both a Bachelors and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Golden Gate University of San Francisco.  Bob brings to our organization years of managerial experience and business savvy.

Bobrow & Associates also works with a network of industry professionals, specializing in virtually all aspects of the association and meetings industries, including association management, membership recruitment and retention, database, meetings and events, trade show, and web content management, exhibit sales and sponsorship, marketing and communications. 

Each team member is hand-selected to meet the client's expectations, wants and needs and is under the management and direction of Bobrow & Associates to ensure client satisfaction.

When necessary and advisable, Bobrow & Associates will use "just in time" staffing strategies and lease employees on a long-term basis in order to fulfill client's needs.

These strategies enable Bobrow & Associates to provide services to clients on a cost-effective basis.  Bobrow & Associates does not receive fees or commissions for putting together its teams of experts, thus providing cost savings' advantages for its clients as well. 

How To Reach Us

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Bobrow and Associates * 6060 Sunrise Vista Drive, Suite 1300 * Citrus Heights, CA  95610

(916) 722-8168 Phone  *   (916) 722-8149 Fax  *   Email:  info@bobrowassociates.com

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