Lance Fensterman is leaving ReedPop after 17 years

After 17 years on the helm of ReedPop, president Lance Fensterman is leaving the corporate for “an exciting new adventure.”

Fensterman introduced the transfer in a letter to colleagues and Popverse, the ReedPop hosted newsite, broke the information.

“Leaving all this was not an easy decision,” Fensterman wrote in his letter, “but the time was right as we are emerging from those pesky and awful pandemic years and the business is on extremely solid footing and thriving. Now I can take a deep breath before moving on to a new challenge.”

Mike Kisken, a longterm Reed worker, and at present Group VP at ReedPOp, will take over operating ReedPop for now and UK Managing Director Simon Maxwell will proceed to supervise the digital enterprise which features a group of gaming websites and Popverse. Popverse experiences that the occasion administration staff of Mike Armstong, Kristina Rogers, and Kyle Marsden Kish will proceed to run the branded companion occasions, the comedian con portfolio, and the online game portfolio respectively.

ReedPop at present owns NYCC, ECCC, C2E2, and runs Star Wars Celebration, the Pax exhibits and different occasions around the globe, in addition to the net EuroGamer community which has greater than 67 million customers. As President, Fensterman helped discovered ReedPop, an unprecedented client going through division inside international B2B occasions firm Reed Exhibitions. He oversaw the launch of or partnership with all of those exhibits besides NYCC, and helped paved the way as comedian cons and associated popular culture occasions turned world-famous occasions for the entire household, and never simply area of interest fan enclaves.

Of his new gig, Fensterman instructed Popverse, ” We’ve emerged actually strongly from the pandemic and the troublesome years that interval included and as we’re positioned for super development, I used to be prepared to contemplate what the following chapter of my profession may seem like, and a really attention-grabbing alternative arose that I’ll share in due time, right now is about my fantastic time at ReedPop.”

Taking off my reporter hat for a second, I used to be a marketing consultant on the fist few NYCCs and met with Fensterman weeks after he took the gig operating that present, following a profession in bookselling and a 12 months operating BookExpo. I instantly noticed he was the type of good, perceptive one who may take this house into a complete new route, given the assist of an organization the scale of Reed. He was additionally a folks one who understood what makes these occasions so particular – even life altering – to the followers and company who attend them. We additionally instantly turned associates, as a result of that’s simply who Lance is, and although his duties took him additional and farther from showrunning, I all the time loved our catch ups, most not too long ago at ECCC. And in all equity, he by no means shied away once I requested the powerful questions, giving candid solutions – one thing I recognize much more as a reporter on the conference house.

We look ahead to no matter Lance has deliberate for the long run and want him effectively on all his travels.