Venue management and tourism expert Matt Hollander chosen to lead Greenville Convention Center as GM
November 8, 2023
Greenville Convention Center, managed by OVG360, has hired Matt Hollander as its general manager. With more than 30 years of venue management leadership, Hollander will contribute to strengthening the overall fabric of Greenville’s tourism industry for meetings and events through his role leading one of the Southeast’s largest convention centers.
As Greenville Convention Center’s general manager, Hollander is responsible for leading the overall management, promotion and operations of the facility and for representing OVG360 throughout Greenville’s tourism industry to help promote Greenville and the Upstate as an ideal location for meetings, events and conventions.
“Matt is the perfect person to build on Greenville Convention Center’s legacy, and to bring to life OVG360’s vision for its future,” said Becky Bolton, regional vice president, OVG360. “He has a solid track record of growing a venue’s revenue and securing repeat business through enhanced customer experiences, as well as prioritizing collaboration amongst tourism industry partners to collectively support the economic growth of a community.”
“Matt believes in the importance of bringing business to Greenville that is not only valuable to the convention center, but to our tourism industry as a whole,” said Heath Dillard, president and CEO of VisitGreenvilleSC. “The economic impact he and the OVG360 team at Greenville Convention Center have already achieved demonstrates this. His shared vision for growing the tourism industry aligns with VisitGreenvilleSC’s, and we look forward to our continued partnership to grow tourism revenue that will benefit Greenville County.”
“Greenville is such a vibrant community that I am excited to be a part of,” said Hollander. “I look forward to helping Greenville’s tourism industry continue to flourish as we build our plans for Greenville Convention Center’s future.”
Prior to joining the OVG360 team at Greenville Convention Center, Hollander served as the senior director of campus operations for Georgia World Congress Center Authority in Atlanta, GA. Before that, Hollander served as the general manager for Oncenter and St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheatre in Syracuse, NY, Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, FL, and the MassMutual Center in Springfield, MA. Hollander earned a B.A. in Communications and a Master of Public Administration from Florida Atlantic University. He also earned the Certified Venue Executive certification from the International Association of Venue Managers, the global industry association for public assembly venues.
About Oak View Group
Oak View Group (OVG) is a global sports and entertainment company founded by Tim Leiweke and Irving Azoff in 2015. OVG is focused on being a positive disruption to business as usual in the sports, live entertainment, and hospitality industries and currently has eight divisions across five global offices (Los Angeles, New York, London, Philadelphia, and Toronto). OVG oversees the operations of Climate Pledge Arena at Seattle Center, UBS Arena in Belmont Park, NY, Moody Center in Austin, TX, Acrisure Arena in Greater Palm Springs, CA, as well as arena development projects for Co-op Live in Manchester, UK; and projects for Arena São Paulo in São Paulo, BZ; CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore, MD; FirstOntario Centre Arena in Hamilton, ON; a New Arena and entertainment district in Las Vegas, NV; and a New Arena in Cardiff, Wales.
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