Chris Griffin, the President of Trade Show Supply and CREW XP, is a respected business leader in the trade show and experiential marketing industry. A published author of both online and instructor-led seminar courses, he has trained thousands of trade show sales professionals and service personnel through a series of traveling roadshows and corporate university training programs. Chris’s industry credentials include:

• Served for ten years on the Board of the U.S. Exhibitor Appointed Contractors Association (EACA) including as Association President for two years.
• Currently serves on the Board of Directors for the U.S. Experiential Designers and Producers Association (EDPA) as their current President and Executive Committee member.
• Chris also serves on the Board as Treasurer of the Exhibitions and Conferences Alliance (ECA), a coalition of nine professional, industry, and labor organizations that comprise theunified voice of the face-to-face business events industry in the U.S.
• A recognized and respected industry advocacy leader on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. for the U.S. trade show and business events industries.

An alumni of Northeastern University in Boston, MA, Chris remains an active trainer and faculty member of several corporate university training programs, and he continues to lecture regularly at seminars hosted by exhibit houses and experiential agencies across North America. He teaches tradeshow courses at the University of Central Florida, and he has been an advisor to the Orange County Convention Center’s Intern Training Program.

Trade Show Supply / CREW XP is a 25-year-old company that serves exhibit builders and experiential ad agencies exclusively by providing turnkey exhibit solutions and logistical support in some of the busiest event cities in the United States (with full fabrication facilities in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Orlando, Florida).