2010 Tower Awards Gala and Ceremony

 See how Creativity and Business Mingle at the 2010 Tower Awards Gala and Ceremony on Wednesday, May 12.

Come to network, view all entries and see who takes home the award at the Tower Awards Gala and Ceremony!

This year, we are delighted to announce a new Emcee*, Ellis Booker, Editor of BtoB Magazine, and a new venue, Hotel Sax. 

Thank you to our 2010 Tower Awards Gala sponsors:  
 

About Ellis Booker: 
Ellis Booker is Editor of BtoB, the Magazine for Marketing Strategists. The only publication devoted exclusively to the intersection of business marketing and business strategy, BtoB is published monthly by Crain Communications Inc. and reaches an audience of more than 45,000 readers. In addition to the print edition, BtoB offers daily and weekly e-mail products and maintains a Web site at http://www.btobonline.com.
 
Booker is also editor ofBtoB Media Business, the Magazine for Business Publishing Executives. In addition to the print edition, BtoB Media Business offers a weekly e-mail newsletter and the annual Top Innovators in Business Publishing Awards.
 
Booker, a frequent speaker and panelist, also manages the editorial side of BtoB’s multi-city NetMarketing Breakfast series.
 
Prior to BtoB, Booker was an Editor at Large at CMP’s Internet Week, which he joined in September 1997. His beat included Java, XML, application servers and databases; he also covered IT deployment strategy, focusing on outsourcing and application service providers (ASPs).
 
Prior to Internet Week, Booker was a Senior Editor at Mecklermedia’s Web Week, which he joined in August 1995, where he conducted most of the paper’s “Industry Leader” interviews—a regular feature. Before Web Week, Booker was a Senior Editor and the Midwest Bureau for Computerworld, which he joined in 1989. Booker led Computerworld’s Internet and electronic commerce coverage in the early days of the Web, and was responsible for creating the paper’s weekly Internet Page.
 
A 1980 graduate of Oberlin College, Booker has a B.A. in English and Philosophy. He lives in the suburbs just north of Chicago and has two sons. 
 

* A sincere thanks and lots of gratitude goes out to Rick Kean, ISBM, for emceeing the event for the last few years!   His dedication and professionalism is truly appreciated.