BMA Boston, the local chapter of the National Business Marketing Association, is the professional growth and networking organization for communicators and marketing executives who want to stay on top of the game. If your focus is business-to-business marketing or marketing communications, you belong in BMA.

BMA plugs you into the marcom scene through its programs and publications, and through the opportunities it gives you for idea exchange:

• you meet a wide mix of corporate and agency marketing people, publishers, suppliers, consultants and others who can help you enhance your professional knowledge,
• you keep current with the new ideas and concepts in business communications, and
• you are introduced to new sources and resources.

You'll go home from every BMA seminar with information you can put to work immediately. With topics ranging from market research to coping with the new world of electronic commerce, you'll keep up to date with new ideas and concepts in business. BMA membership will be useful to your company and to your career. This is not ivory tower classroom stuff - this is real world input, presented in the context of global trends, for today's international marketing challenges. Through its people, its people-oriented services, and its national and international resources, BMA Boston broadens your horizons. Through BMA, you may meet your next client, your next boss, or the very resource that helps you solve the problem that's on your desk today. And the BMA solution is focused on your environment, the business-to-business environment, so it's relevant to the world you live and work in. Whether it's a white paper on Commerce on the Internet or a review of new technologies for multimedia presentations, it's reality-based, for the real world of industry and commerce in which BMA members function.

Michael Lewis
President, BMA Boston

MISSION STATEMENT FOR THE BMA

BMA helps members improve their ability to manage business-to-business marketing and communications for greater productivity and profitability by providing unique access to information, ideas, and the experience of peers. We are committed to providing our members with educational and networking opportunities that will help enhance their careers.

HISTORY OF THE CHAPTER

The Boston Chapter was originally identified with the "Association of Industrial Advertisers" called the "AIA". Later it became the "Business/Professional Advertising Association" and is now known as the "Business Marketing Association" or BMA. Essentially, this group focuses on business-to-business challenges with over thirty chapters nationwide.

Created in the mid-50s, the Boston Chapter of the BMA has grown with its members to become one of the chapters with the most attendants at its monthly meetings. In 1986 the Chapter was the host for the 64th Annual Conference, with over four hundred national members in attendance.

Being a non-profit organization, BMA Boston is proud to give back to the community. In 1978, the Chapter set up the John Koch Scholarship Fund at Boston University. This Fund awards scholarships every year to one or more students majoring in Communications at BU.

Business Marketing Boston - Board Member Biographies