Sherrif Karamat, CAE, is President and Chief Executive Officer of PCMA. Karamat also serves as President of the PCMA Foundation and Publisher of Convene Magazine.

As CEO, Karamat’s vision is to drive global economic and social transformation through business events creating the largest business events platform in the world for participants to engage.

Karamat is a member of the Board of Directors of Destinations International and is also a Director of the Events Industry Council (EIC).

Karamat holds an MBA from York University in Toronto Canada and has completed postgraduate certificate programs at Wharton School of Business at University of Pennsylvania, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. At Harvard Business and Law School, he completed a program on strategic negotiations for senior executives and a program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), on data intelligence and big data.