Tourism Charlottetown has hired a new CEO and a new director of operations.

Myrtle Jenkins-Smith and Mark Carr-Rollitt are scheduled to start their new jobs on Nov. 23.

But the pair, who own Conference & Events Management Inc., are expected to fold their company first, said Doug Newson, president of Tourism Charlottetown.

Newson hopes Tourism Charlottetown will pick up some of the events Conference & Events Management Inc. has managed in the past, such as the Jazz and Blues Festival and the Fringe Urban Festival.

"They will certainly be working now as Tourism Charlottetown and P.E.I. convention partnership employees and any of these events that they would have operated in the past, we'll be looking at as Tourism Charlottetown," he said.

"And any events that we see as a good fit for the organization, we'll certainly try to bring into our umbrella."

Tourism Charlottetown did not buy the company from Jenkins-Smith and Carr-Rollitt, Newson said. And they did not get any extra money to get them to wind up their business, he added.

John Cudmore, of Cudmore Hospitality Consulting, has been serving as the interim CEO since August when former CEO Lee Gauthier resigned.

The board said Gauthier, who had only held the position since January, wanted to pursue other interests.

The previous CEO, Kim Green, announced she was leaving on Sept. 23, 2008, to operate a private business with her husband.

Tourism Charlottetown and the Prince Edward Island Convention Partnership is a non-profit organization led by a private sector board of directors.

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