Staff

Ed Rigsbee, CSP, CAE

Ed Rigsbee, Co-Founder, CEO, & Executive Director; https://rigsbee.com/

Cigar PEG Staff

Ed Rigsbee
Robert Bradford
Dale Irvin
Lainie Goldberg
Michael Goldberg-Bar Boss
Avish Parashar
Don Cooper
Hayley Foster
Marcey Walsh
Rick Metzger-Security
Lindsay Adams-Door Bitch
Joe Curcillo-Cigar Bitch
Mary Kelly-Veteran Scholarship
Aidan Crawford-Website

Cigar PEG Staff

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Total Giving as of July 2025: $919,000

$500,000 USD to NSA’s Foundation, since its inception in 1999, the Cigar PEG has contributed funds specifically earmarked for the Professional Speaker Benefit Fund–making the Cigar PEG the largest single contributor to the Foundation.
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$155,000 USD to Laura’s Hope, a project administered through The Hereditary Disease Foundation.

$40,000 USD to benefit John Alston, CSP, CPAE. In 2009 the Cigar PEG created an Emergency Relief Fund; the fund has collected over $35,000 and granted the monies to the Alston Family. Additionally, in 2010, the Cigar PEG gave the Alston Family a grant of $5,000.

$29,000 USD to the Cardiac Arrhythmias Research & Education (C.A.R.E.) Foundation (as of 2011). Their work supports the research and education of the Long QT Syndrome.
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$60,000 USD to Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes (SADS) Foundation. Find out more.

$37,000 USD to the American Cancer Society. Find out more

$7,000 USD (through the Cigar PEG Emergency Relief Fund) to benefit Jeff Thredgold, CSP (also Cigar PEG High Roller & Eddie Award recipient) who was, in 2012, diagnosed with having Frontotemporal dementia.

$5,000 USD to the Dutch Charity, Marathon 365 Foundation, following the Cigar PEG’s first International event in Amsterdam. Find out more

$15,000 USD to The Northwest Parkinson’s Foundation (NWPF). Find out more

$3,000 USD to The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD). Find out more.

$30,400 to CurePSP, the leading nonprofit advocacy organization focused on prime of life neurodegenerative diseases, a spectrum of fatal brain disorders that often strike during a person’s most productive and rewarding years.
http://www.psp.org/

$14,400 USD to Hurricane Ian (2022) Emergency Relief Fund donated by members to benefit Annie Meehan.

Shriners Hospital for Children (https://donate.lovetotherescue.org/) $15,200

Stacy Pederson Emergency Medical Fund — $5,500

$1,000 to Prostate Cancer Research Centre
PayPal Giving Fund UK, a registered charity (No.1110538)

$1,000 to Hawai’i Community Foundation
https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/

$5,000 to Four Diamonds through PennState University

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$500 to Sharing Foundation (Caring for Cambodia’s Children)

https://sharingfoundation.org/