{"id":158,"date":"2012-07-21T19:48:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T23:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/significantmeetings.com\/?page_id=158"},"modified":"2012-08-07T16:25:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T20:25:56","slug":"patrick-defeo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/significantmeetings.com\/?page_id=158","title":{"rendered":"Patrick DeFeo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/significantmeetings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/patrick-formal-headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-192 alignleft\" style=\"margin-right: 5px; margin-left: 5px;\" title=\"patrick-profile\" src=\"https:\/\/significantmeetings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/patrick-formal-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"174\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patrick\u2019s extensive experience encompasses all aspects of operations. As the Chief Operations Officer at <span style=\"color: #f05057;\">Significant<\/span> Meetings + Events, he has spent more than 17 years of his professional career within the events field, and he brings a wealth of knowledge, ideas, and, most importantly, operational solutions to his clients. His broad strategic and tactical skills, together with his hands-on leadership style, make him a key contributor to any meetings\u2019 success. Patrick\u2019s experience includes operational management, contract negotiations, employee motivation and retention, talent recruitment, team building, organizational development, and strategic planning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining <span style=\"color: #f05057;\">Significant<\/span> Meetings + Events, Patrick was the Vice President of Operations for a medical communications agency in Princeton, New Jersey, where he served on the Board of Directors and was directly responsible for the management of the Operations and Creative departments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Patrick received a bachelor of science degree from Rider University.<\/p>\n<div data-counters='1' data-style='square' data-size='regular' data-url='https:\/\/significantmeetings.com\/?page_id=158' data-title='Patrick DeFeo' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_3'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div><div data-position='' data-url='https:\/\/significantmeetings.com\/?page_id=158' data-title='Patrick DeFeo' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_7'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick\u2019s extensive experience encompasses all aspects of operations. As the Chief Operations Officer at Significant Meetings + Events, he has spent more than 17 years of his professional career within the events field, and he brings a wealth of knowledge, ideas, and, most importantly, operational solutions to his clients. His broad strategic and tactical skills, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-noimage.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-158","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/significantmeetings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/significantmeetings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/significantmeetings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/significantmeetings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/significantmeetings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/significantmeetings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/significantmeetings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158\/revisions\/442"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/significantmeetings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/significantmeetings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}