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New tourism ceo knows how to make a lot out of a little; former hotel exec wants to pull together competing factions.

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When David Peckinpaugh looked at the list of qualifications required for running the San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau, he felt he met all, except one. He hadn't worked for a tourism bureau before, never mind the fact that it had suffered a series of severe cuts in marketing funds.

But the veteran hotel executive who'd risen to chief marketing officer for Hudson, Ohio-based Conferon Global Services during his eight-year tenure there was accustomed to squeezing a marketing budget.

Despite being one of the nation's largest meetings and conventions consultants, the $80 million firm had a marketing budget significantly less than that of ConVis, so he'd become adept at working with teams to make a lot out of a little, he said.

Last week, after two weeks as ConVis's new chief executive, Peckinpaugh said he has a plan to make a plan to secure the bureau's preeminence as one of the top in the country and to maintain tourism...

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