Kevin Iwamoto to Leave Role at Lanyon

Lanyon vice president of industry strategy Kevin Iwamoto will retire from his role, effective April 30. Iwamoto joined StarCite, now Lanyon, in 2008, after 11 years managing travel and meetings at Hewlett-Packard. He served as president and CEO of the National Business Travel Association, now the Global Business Travel Association, and chairman of the NBTA Foundation, now the GBTA Foundation, from 2001 to 2003. Iwamoto is widely recognized as a foremost expert in strategic meetings management, has written a book on the practice, served on the Meeting Professionals International Foundation Council and serves on Business Travel News' editorial advisory board. In a Facebook message posted after the announcement, Iwamoto said he will be "selectively involved in various projects."