DAVID ADLER
Founder and CEO, BiZBash Media

INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS OF THE YEAR 2006

David Adler is founder and CEO of, the source for essential information about event marketing, meeting and event planning, and business entertaining in New York City, Los Angeles/Southern California, Toronto, and Florida. BiZBash media operates BiZBash.com and publishes BiZBash magazine. The company also hosts the annual BiZBash/M&C Meeting and Event Style show attended by the industry's top professionals. In 2005, the company's annual award show was featured in the center column of The Wall Street Journal. In 2004, Adler was named one of the "25 Most Influential Leaders" in the meeting and event industry by Meeting News magazine.

From 1994 until 2000, Adler was vice president of corporate communications for PRIMEDIA and held the same post at Macmillan Inc. from 1988 to 1990. In those positions, Adler was responsible for events, public relations, charitable giving, branding, and special chairman and CEO projects including the Notre Dame University Conference on the Holocaust in 1998. Event projects included the 50th anniversary of the Daily Racing Form, and the annual Soap Opera Digest awards celebration.

From 1990 until 1993, Adler was vice president of media relations and cause-related marketing, where he was responsible for development and execution programs such as the initial Avon Breast Cancer Initiative, the Reebok Human Rights awards, the Polaroid Missing Children Program, and the John f. Kennedy Library Profiles in Courage awards.

At the age of 21, a month after graduating from American University, Adler founded Washington Dossier. The magazine, which covered power, society, politics, and entertaining in the nation's capital, was one of the pioneers of the regional luxury magazine explosion currently taking place. The publication grew from a 16-page newsletter to a 250-page monthly magazine when it was sold in 1988, and was featured regularly in the national media. Its regular annual features included the "Top 1,000 Most Powerful People in Washington," the Diplomat List, the Social 400, and the Senatorial Dossier, a guide to the personalities of United States senators.

Adler resides in New York City and is active in several nonprofit and professional organizations, including board positions on NYC & Company, the WNET Education Committee, and the Dean's Advisory Council of the American University School of Communications. Previously he was a member of the board of trustees of the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School, the Magazine Publishers Association, and City Meals on Wheels. He also chaired the public relations committee of the Magazine Publishers Association from 1998 to 2000.