Butch Spyridon has served as president and CEO of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau (NCVB) since 1991. Under his leadership, Nashville has evolved into a year-round destination for meeting and leisure visitors and has grown to become the city’s second largest industry with annual visitor spending exceeding $4 billion. Over the past 20 years Spyridon has led the strategic development of Nashville’s emergence as a premiere travel destination. He has been intimately involved in the relocation of the now Tennessee Titans, the construction of Bridgestone Arena and, most recently, helped champion the construction of the $585 million Music City Center opening in 2013, which more than triples the downtown convention space. A native of Pascagoula, Mississippi, Spyridon graduated from Vanderbilt University with a bachelor’s of arts in Business Administration, and is a graduate of the Institute of Comparative Political and Economic Systems at Georgetown University.
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