As of September 2016, Patrick Nohilly will be the new co-president of Messe Frankfurt Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of the Messe Frankfurt Group. Nohilly will be taking over from Kathryn Fitts, who left the company to pursue a new professional direction. In the well-established joint management system, he will oversee the Atlanta subsidiary’s business together with Dennis Smith who will be continuing as co-president and CEO. Patrick’s responsibilities will be to focus mainly on the area of Finance & Administration. Detlef Braun, Member of the Executive Board of Messe Frankfurt, says: “We are delighted to have Patrick on board – in him, Messe Frankfurt has an experienced manager and financial expert from the event sector with extensive knowledge of the North American market.”

Nohilly previously held various management positions encompassing Finance, M&A and Media Operations at multinational media and event group UBM between 1999 and 2015, most recently as senior vice president Central Operations and Finance in New York.

He is married and has three daughters. For his new position, he and his family will be relocating from New York to Atlanta.