BSC Management Staff Profiles

Barbara Saltzman Berci, Owner and Chief Executive Officer
Sallie L. Matthews, Managing Partner and Chief Operations Officer
Jason C. Levine, Director of Information Technology
Christina Kasendorf, Vice President, Association Management and Conferencing Planning

STAFF CAPABILITIES

A snapshot of our talent pool includes (but is not limited to):

• 6 conference and meeting planners with experience ranging from 5 to 25 years.
• A senior web designer
• Web Designer/Graphic Artist
• 2 senior database managers
• A financial controller with more than 20 years experience including 7 years in non profit organizations
• 2 bookkeeping staff with masters degrees in business
• 3 experienced fundraisers with more than 20 years experience between them
• 2 experienced exhibit managers
• 6 staff members with experience as executive directors
• 5 staff members with significant experience in continuing medical education
• 2 staff member with experience in educational certifying programs

Multi-lingual staff. We have staff members who are fluent in: Spanish, French, Tagalog, Mandarin, Japanese, Cantonese, German, Russian, and Portuguese & Hebrew.

Barbara Saltzman Berci, Owner and Chief Executive Officer

Barbara Berci, Founder & Chairman, has been a leader in meeting and event planning, association management and com­munications for more than 25 years.  Mrs. Berci is an imaginative thinker, problem solver, and idea person. After 25 years of creative leadership, Barbara Berci stepped down as CEO and President in 2008. She is still an active partner in BSC Management. She managed the growth of one association from 300 members to more than 6,000, while presiding over an income growth with a factor of 50+.  The same client’s first scientific meeting attracted 110 registrants and 9 exhibitors in 1986.  It now attracts about 2,500 registrants and 100 + exhibitors annually. She has had oversight of more than 30 major conferences and 50 meetings and courses. She has operated several major community events including one that attracted more than 100,000 attendees.

Her areas of expertise include:

• Event planning, site selection
• Marketing strategy and implantation
• Project conception & management;
• Social event creation and implementation;
• On site event operations;
• Project creation and critical path organization;
• Public relations.
• Fundraising strategy
• Membership recruitment
• Strategic Planning

An open letter to our colleagues in industry….

Barbara Saltzman Berci

Sallie Matthews , Managing Partner and Chief Operations Officer

Sallie Matthews, President & CEO, has 15 years of association management, meeting and event planning experience and is the quintessential strategic thinker and detail person.  A graduate of Indiana University, she serves as Executive Director for BSC's largest client, the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons.  She has been directly responsible for planning a dozen major conferences for several thousand delegates each, and has overseen more than 50 regional meetings or training courses in the US and abroad. 

Mrs. Matthews' expertise includes the following:

• Overall event management and policy
• Site selection;
• Hotel contracts and negotiations (she’s THE expert)
• Vendor contracts
• Non-profit association management
• Budgets and fiduciary oversight;
• Negotiation of vendor contracts;
• Logistical management of on-site events;
• Communication with organizational leadership
• Strategic planning for conferences

Sallie L. Matthews

Jason Levine, Director of Information Technology

Jason Levine, Director of Information Technology, has more than 15 years experience in database design and programming, in addition to 13 years of web development experience.

Mr. Levine’s areas of expertise include:

• Development of online meeting registration databases and software
• Business development
• Strategic planning
• Event and meeting registration
• Web page design
• Extensive Open Source programming experience
• Conference marketing

Jason C. Levine