26th May, 2020
At the recent General Assembly of CENTREX International Exhibition Statistics Union (www.centrexstat.org), the major Central European exhibition industry non-profit organisation the members elected Mr. Valerii Pekar as Chairman of the Union.
He is succeeding Mr. Przemyslaw Trawa, who has retired in May 2020 as President of CENTREX founder Poznan International Fair and as chairman of CENTREX.
Mr. Valerii Pekar is a long-time exhibition industry professional, president and co-owner of EUROINDEX Ltd. Kiev and KiyvExpoPlaza, he is member of UFI’s Board of Directors. His company is a major B2B fair organiser of Ukraine, which joined CENTREX in 2001.
Valerii Pekar is a co-founder of the Nova Kraina Civic Platform, a lecturer at the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School, a futurologist and a former member of the National Reform Council. He curates a blog titled Ukraine: The European frontier.
He is succeeding Mr. Przemyslaw Trawa, who has retired in May 2020 as President of CENTREX founder Poznan International Fair and as chairman of CENTREX.Mr. Valerii Pekar is a long-time exhibition industry professional, president and co-owner of EUROINDEX Ltd. Kiev and KiyvExpoPlaza, he is member of UFI’s Board of Directors. His company is a major B2B fair organiser of Ukraine, which joined CENTREX in 2001.
Valerii Pekar is a co-founder of the Nova Kraina Civic Platform, a lecturer at the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School, a futurologist and a former member of the National Reform Council. He curates a blog titled Ukraine: The European frontier.
CENTREX was founded in 1997 at the initiative of the market leader exhibition organisers in Central Eastern Europe. From 1999 the Union is a member of UFI (The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry). CENTREX efforts are aimed at transparent, measurable, internationally acceptable, comparable, audited exhibition statistics, to promote these data and collaboration internationally, and to publish their data open wide in their annual publication and at their website.
In 2020 CENTREX Union has 11 leading members in 6 countries of the region – as core companies of collaboration in CEE. 