MIC Council

Joshua Riggs has worked in the Denver special events industry for 12 plus years. Currently he is the Associate Director of Private Events at the Denver Botanic Gardens. At the Gardens, he oversees the venue sales team that is responsible for selling the Garden’s unique event spaces and also oversees our AV Services team which manages built-in and rentable sound equipment. In 2014 he received his national CPCE certification (Certified Professional in Catering and Events) and serves as the President of the Greater Denver Chapter of NACE (National Association of Catering and Events) which provides networking and education opportunities for their 100 plus members. Prior to joining the Gardens, he managed the event spaces and catering at the Denver Art Museum. At the museum, he oversaw groups of various sizes in unique and traditional event settings. Here he learned the art of on-premise catering serving the unique needs of a non-profit institution and increased outside event sales. Prior to this he was an entrepreneur and the Director of Sales and Marketing for Relish Catering and Events, a prominent Denver off-premise caterer. Where he worked to retool, rebrand, and focus on opening new markets and contributed to a systematic increase in event sales. Before this, he worked for Occasions by Sandy catering as their Senior Event Designer and received his culinary arts and event management degree in 2006 from Orange Coast College.

With 16 years of destination marketing experience, I bring a well rounded approach to recruiting conventions and meetings to the capital city of Wyoming. I have the pleasure of working with meeting planners, associations and groups helping them execute successful meetings and conferences that create learning opportunities and memorable experiences.

I’m an avid backpacker, runner, hunter and snowshoer. I enjoy spending as much time in the mountains as possible and spending time with my daughter and my friends.

I earned a BA in Journalism/Mass Communication from St. Bonaventure in the spring of 1998 and in May of 2008 I earned my MS in Service Management from the Rochester Institute of Technology. in July of 2019, I achieved my CDME from Destinations International.

Pam Temple, CGMP
CDHS, Division of Youth Services
4255 S. Knox Ct.
Denver, CO 80236
(W) 303-866-7973
Pamela.temple@state.co.us

Pam worked for the State of Colorado for over 25 years and is currently the Program Assistant for the Education Program with the Division of Youth Services. She has been a member of SGMP since July of 2008 and received her CGMP in July 2010. She is currently the Immediate Past President (IPP) of the SGMP Rocky Mountain Chapter.