Neil Brownlee
Brownlee, the top of enterprise occasions at VisitScotland, has been inaugurated because the 2025 chair of PCMA. He has spent over 35 years within the worldwide hospitality and enterprise occasions trade, having started his profession in lodges. He joined VisitScotland Enterprise Occasions in 2008 and has served as head of enterprise occasions for the previous 14 years. In 2018, he joined the PCMA board of administrators and has served as EMEA Advisory Board member and secretary-treasurer earlier than being appointed chair elect in 2025, and chair in 2025. He was sworn in at Convening Leaders in Houston in January 2025 alongside chair elect Kelly Ricker, COO of International Know-how Trade Affiliation.
Cathy Ruhling
Constancy Resort appoints Ruhling as director of gross sales. She joined Constancy Resort from Resort Indigo, the place she labored alongside Eric Conrad, who was not too long ago appointed as Constancy Resort’s normal supervisor, to implement numerous advertising and marketing methods to draw enterprise in new markets. She brings a profitable background in strategically monitoring gross sales and income towards reserving necessities, and has held management roles at a number of prime lodges in Cleveland, enabling her to efficiently introduce this new resort to the town.
Kaytlin Dangaran
Dangaran is promoted to company chef of eating and occasions at Elior North America Eating & Occasions, a worldwide chief in meals service. She’s going to oversee operations throughout 4 manufacturers inside the Elior North America profile, touring all through the East Coast area to make sure the supply of unparalleled culinary experiences at prestigious cultural establishments, off-premise occasions and eating venues. She beforehand served as government chef at Sarasota Artwork Museum, a part of Constellation Culinary Group, a model below Elior North America.
Pilar Florez
Bernardus Lodge & Spa appoints Florez as director of gross sales & advertising and marketing. Throughout her over twenty years of luxurious hospitality and model positioning expertise, she has developed a confirmed monitor file of success in creating and executing built-in gross sales and advertising and marketing methods that drive enterprise development, prioritize storytelling and elevate model positioning. She most not too long ago served as director of gross sales at San Diego Mission Bay Resort.
Felice Kreitman
Kreitman takes on the position of director of gross sales & advertising and marketing at THesis Resort Miami, Curio Assortment by Hilton. On the way of life resort, Kreitman will leverage her profitable monitor file of hospitality trade management to additional the resort’s popularity as a premier South Florida vacation spot. She’s going to oversee all gross sales and advertising and marketing efforts for the resort, together with its celebrated culinary venues and 20,000 sq. ft. of assembly and occasion area, guiding initiatives to drive income development, strengthen model positioning and improve visitor engagement via progressive advertising and marketing methods.
Kelly Peiffer
Conferences & Incentives Worldwide (M&IW) welcomes Peiffer as its new enterprise improvement director. She brings over 20 years within the conferences, occasions and incentives trade, most not too long ago serving because the director of nationwide accounts for the Las Vegas Conference & Guests Authority (LVCVA). An energetic member of trade organizations together with PCMA, MPI and SITE, she has additionally served because the president of Vacation spot Reps. She’s going to deal with rising M&IW’s enterprise in enterprise accounts and large-scale occasions.
Jamal Brown
Brown is appointed as gross sales supervisor for The ATL Airport District Conference & Guests Bureau, the vacation spot advertising and marketing group representing the cities of School Park, Hapeville and Union Metropolis, Georgia. With over twenty years of expertise in gross sales, advertising and marketing and occasion administration, he’ll deal with selling the district as a premier conferences and sports activities vacation spot and enhancing customer experiences by offering considerate, tailor-made steerage to teams planning occasions within the vacation spot.
Timothy Carr
AC Resort Seattle Downtown welcomes Carr as director of gross sales and advertising and marketing. He started his hospitality profession at Caesar’s Lake Tahoe, and later took on the position of director of group gross sales at Edgewater Resort in Seattle, Washington in 2006, the place he earned quite a few private and workforce rewards for gross sales achievements. He’s now a part of the opening workforce for AC Resort Seattle Downtown, which opened in December 2024, and has already introduced success to the resort via his quite a few relationships and profitable promotion of the brand new property.
Lisa Luna
Luna is appointed as director of promoting at Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa. She brings over a decade of expertise in public relations and advertising and marketing, and commenced with the Omni Rancho Las Palmas workforce in 2015 as a advertising and marketing supervisor, earlier than shifting to a senior advertising and marketing supervisor position. After 4 years, she grew to become director of promoting on the Grand Hyatt Indian Wells Resort & Villas, and now has returned to Omni Rancho Las Palmas to handle the advertising and marketing workforce, create campaigns and oversee branding and resort income from numerous advertising and marketing channels.
Molly Horton
JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Nation Resort & Spa promotes Horton to the position of director of group gross sales. She beforehand served as affiliate director of group gross sales on the property, and made a big influence by collaborating with groups dealing with small and intimate gatherings to mid-sized occasions and overseeing key accounts within the Texas market. She has confirmed herself instrumental in managing relationships with a few of the resort’s largest legacy shoppers, together with the Valero Texas Open, and now will lead all group gross sales efforts.
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