Travel management firm BCD Travel has created a new specialist division in the US to manage meetings and events for the life sciences sector.
The TMC is targeting the sector, which conducts research on living organisms and life processes, to fill “a gap in the complicated, compliance-driven market”.
BCD Meetings & Events’ Life Sciences Center of Excellence (LSCOE), based in Raleigh, North Carolina, will offer life science companies the opportunity to source all their meetings requirements through one source.
Mike Pennotti, vice president of account management and operations at LSCOE, said: “Historically, life sciences companies have had to manage three or more suppliers to meet their complex and unique business needs
“Our Life Sciences Centre of Excellence gives them the option to simplify that process and work with one.
“We have strategically grown our network of global resources dedicated to delivering the full spectrum of life sciences’ meeting requirements.”
BCD has been acquiring specialist companies in the field so that it can offer a full range of meetings services to the life sciences sector including technology platforms.