Kerry Painter, CEM, CMP, CFE, General Manager/Director, Raleigh Convention and Performing Arts Complex

Kerry is the Executive Director of the Raleigh Convention and Performing Arts Complex which encompasses the Raleigh Convention Center, Duke Energy Performing Arts Center, Red Hat Amphitheater and Walnut Creek Amphitheater. Previously, Kerry was the Assistant General Manager at the Cox Business Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma where the convention center won the Venue Excellence award in 2017.

Kerry is a member of IAVM, IAEE, and PCMA, and has served on several boards/committees both within the industry and in her communities, most recently serving as IAVM’s Chair of the Board and a current member of IAEE’s CEM Commission. She was awarded Venues Today Woman of Influence in 2015 and Woman of Distinction in 2017. Kerry teaches at the Venue Management School yearly for IAVM, teaches CEM domestically and internationally, and advises for Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts college and coeducational graduate school in Raleigh, North Carolina. Kerry is a graduate of the University of Michigan majoring in Business, Economics, and Communications.