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CIPC President and CEO Named “Key Influencer”

December 02nd 2015
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PierreCIPC is proud to announce that President and CEO Pierre van der Westhuizen has been named one of Musical America’s Key Industry Influencers in its Professionals of the Year Special Report.  Their profile on Dr. van der Westhuizen, can be read HERE.

Each year, the Musical America Professionals of the Year are the performing arts industry’s best-known and most prestigious innovators and market shakers.  Van der Westhuizen was selected over hundreds of nominees based on the following criteria:

Who wields the most influence in the business?  Who has had/is having the most influence on how you make professional decisions?  A top executive at an opera company?  An artist manager?  A blogger or someone with a huge social media following?  When they speak, we listen.

Musical America has been the voice of the performing arts industry worldwide for more than 100 years.  It provides in-depth coverage of performing arts news, special reports, and information vital to performing artists, facilities, managers, presenters, and virtually anyone involved in the performing arts.  Learn more musicalamerica.com.


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