President and CEO
Sallie Matthews, President & CEO, has spent more than 20 years with BSC Management. With two decades of association management, conference and project management experience, she 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 and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES). Sallie is a member of the Forbes Non-Profit Council. She has been directly responsible for planning more than 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:
- Association and Complex Project Management
- Conference management and policy
- Site selection
- Hotel contracts and negotiations (she’s THE expert)
- Vendor contracts
- Budgets and fiduciary oversight; she is innately and uniquely “in the black”
- Negotiation of vendor contracts;
- Communications with and advisor to organizational leadership
- Strategic planning
In addition to BSC, Sallie enjoys singing, serving on the San Fernando Valley Rescue Mission Advisory Board, and parenting teenage kids..
Education: BME, Indiana University
With BSC since 1993