The genesis of MatriXamc lies in the creation of its parent company, Meetings Etc., in fall of 1999. On our 10 year anniversary in 2009, we rebranded the corporation to better reflect the clients that we serve. Over the years, our experience has afforded us the opportunity to expand our association management services to include full management and consultive services.
Clients
MatriXamc is an Association Management & Consulting Company (AMC) located in the United States. We currently manage several organizations and many projects, both nationally and internationally. Our goal is to build relationships, managing contracts long-term. Current organizations include: the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists (ACVO - since 2002), the American Board of Veterinary Ophthalmology (ABVO - since 2013), the American Veterinary Dental College (AVDC - since 2015), the International Equine Ophthalmology Consortium (IEOC - since 2009). Ongoing current initiatives include: the ACVO/Epicur National Service Animal Eye Exam public relations annual event (since 2007), creation and management of an on-demand member video library to provide CE options for veterinary specialists, execution management of strategic planning initiatives for several groups, and support of the Basic Science Course for over 20 years. Additionally, Matrix provides in-house conference and registration services and website management services for these clients.
Sharing Best Practices
Management of similarly structured entities has afforded us the opportunity to provide consulting services to related organizations, and within the organizations we manage. With our clients' permission, we share working knowledge of systems and programs between them with a goal to encourage best practices for all.
MatriXamc is not 'just another management company', our client load is intimate and focused on specialty areas in a limited number of professional fields. Several of these are credentialing organizations where accuracy is essential! It is our policy that current clients are consulted for conflicts when we consider taking on new clients.
Consultive Services
Our founder got her start through completion of her graduate program, earning a Master’s Degree focused on volunteer management in non-profit organizations. This formal training married with over 25 years of expertise serving as Executive Director and COO for the ACVO, ABVO, AVDC, IEOC, ACVO VAF, VDF and the ISAE, gives Matrix the advantage of in-house consultive expertise. We have worked with clients over the years to develop new programs to increase revenue, create systems to boost efficiency, plan for interim management, develop requests for proposals for work, execute strategic plans, and the like. Our team can appreciate the sensitive and critical nature of management of professional organizations, especially those with board-certification processes and take the utmost care when advising and providing services to our clients.
Conference Support & Website Services
Several government agencies in the states of Idaho, Wyoming, Utah and Montana and international non-profit membership organizations have benefited from our planning services and cost-cutting measures. We have provided conference and association management services for groups as small as a dozen to over 2,300 attendees/members. Matrix can provide stand-alone conference and trade show management for professional organizations. Website service support is only provided to current clients to support their programs.
Management & Staff
The co-owners of the company share 50 years of combined executive management experience. MatriXamc’s experienced in-house support staff is as deep as is needed for our client load at any particular time. We utilize several highly trained staff and program managers who service clients’ needs on a personal basis. One of our company’s primary goals is to ensure that the memberships of these organizations are treated as individuals and the needs of each organization are treated in a customized manner. We do not advocate an AMC structure that leaves members confused or feeling poorly serviced by being transferred to multiple departments, therefore each organization has specifically assigned staff.
MatriXamc is unique in that we serve a select professional clientele. Our knowledge base of medical and credentialing organizations helps us provide their members with accurate and friendly customer service quickly. We have found that professional medical organizations do not have the luxury of down-time when transitioning their management to our care therefore our expertise in their service needs makes this process as swift and painless as possible. MatriXamc’ staff is able to step into a management role with very little down time.
Benefits of Working with an AMC
Contracting with an AMC provides organizations with an experienced full-time staff, office hours and resources. This is especially beneficial for emerging organizations that currently need ‘part-time’ or incremental support but wish to expand and may need more complete member services.
Each industry has its own specific set of needs, problems and expertise. Matrix’ staff can anticipate most of these needs and therefore is easily able to provide similar groups an efficiency of scale. Our management team consults internally and shares the ideas and successes between all of our groups, many of our clients find this structure very beneficial as they reap the reward of learning from other experiences.
