Kimberly Allison, CAE, CASE
Awards Committee
Kim Allison, CAE, CASE is currently the National Sales Manager for the Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association. She has been in the DC area for three years representing her hometown! Prior to moving to DC, she was membership and events manager for the ICVA. Prior to joining the ICVA, Kim was a meeting planner for over 10 years. She has a degree from Purdue University. Kim has been active on the AMPS program and 25th Anniversary committees for three years. She is also active in PCMA and ASAE.

Ryan Barth
Special Events Committee

Rick Bethea
Public Relations Committee

Beth Bushman
Golf Committee

Nell Chadwick
Hospitality Committee
Nell Chadwick is Regional Director of Sales for the Washington, D.C./Southeast market for the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau and is responsible booking a market that traditionally is accountable for more than 35 percent of the meetings and conventions held in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Convention Center each year. In the meetingsí profession for more than 20 years, Nell has worked in the PCVB satellite office for seven years and has been an AMPsí member since 1999. She just completed a two-year Board term and has actively served on the Membership, Community Service and Hospitality committees.

Cameron Curtis
Awards Committee
Cameron Curtis is the Manager of Meetings for the Association of American Medical Colleges. She started her meeting planning career with the Phi Beta Kappa Society in March of 2000. She has been an active member of AMPs since 2003 and has served as committee co-chair on the golf committee and is currently on the board. She holds a B.A. in Music Theater from Christopher Newport University.

Kristin Goen, CMP
Newsletter Committee
Kristin Goen currently is the president of El Vikingo Design, Inc. where she not only plans meetings but she serves as a liaison between clients and graphic designers to help planners conceptualize and implement marketing campaigns for their conferences. Before starting her small, woman-owned business, Kristin was a Sr. Meetings & Events Coordinator with Courtesy Associates. Prior to Courtesy, Kristin worked for NAHB as the Marketing Coordinator for the International Builders Show and then as a Program Manager for the Builder 20 Club Program. Kristin started her meeting planning journey at ARDA as the Meetings & Awards Coordinator upon college graduation. She is a graduate of George Mason University where she holds a bachelors degree in Communications/Conflict Management, she obtained her CMP in 2006 and received the AMPs Outstanding Meeting Planner of the Year Award in 2007.

Susan Haning, CEM
Awards Committee
Susan Haning CEM, CMP is the Director of Business Development for the National Assn. of Independent Life Brokerage Agencies or affectionately referred to as NAILBA. Most recently, Haning was the National Sales Manager for AV Solutions Freeman / AVW-TELAV Audio Visual, Inc. In that capacity, Haning was responsible for soliciting national business for the company and serving as a local support for customers located in the DC Metro area. Prior to that, Haning served as an account executive for GES Exposition Services & Andrews-Bartlett Exposition Services.

She has a strong convention industry background with involvement in the International Association of Exhibitions and Events (IAEE) as the current chairman of the 2008 National Education Committee, a member of the CEM Learning Program faculty, a national program committee member, and a former local secretary and membership chairman of the DC Chapter. She was also a former Board member and current co-chair of the Awards Committee for the Association for Meeting Professionals (AMPS) and a former board member of the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI).

Haning also formerly served on the Professional Convention Management Association’s (PCMA) Capital Chapter education program committee; as well as the National PCMA committee - Community Services/Network for the Needy; and as a member of both the Springtime in the Park and Associate Member Advisory Councils for the former Greater Washington Society of Association Executives (GWSAE)/ASAE. Additionally, Susan has served as a Board member and Committee Chair for a number of other industry organizations.

Susan is characterized by her current boss, NAILBA Executive Director Jack Chiasson, as a results-driven sales strategist with over 20 years of record sales achievements. When not volunteering on some Industry organization you can either find her singing at local Industry events or in her local community choir, playing golf, reading, or volunteering yet again for another worthwhile cause for the King Street Cat Shelter or with Team in Training where she just competed in the Alaska Mayor’s ½ Marathon Run/Walk to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in June ‘08.
continued up the ladder to end at her former position as an Account Executive for GES Exposition Services with her office being located in the former Sheraton Washington Hotel. Her main role with AVW-TELAV is soliciting national business for the company and as a local support for our National customers located in the DC Metro area. Susan has a strong industry background with involvement in HSMAI, as a past Board Member, IAEM, as a national program committee member and a former local secretary of the DC Chapter, local Capital Chapter program committee member and National Community Services/Network for the Needy of PCMA, Former GWSAE member on both the Springtime in the Park and Associate Member Advisory Councils, AMPS, MILO, HIGO and various others. Her various hobbies are singing, cooking, golfing and spending as much time with family as her job allows. One of her favorite pastimes is following the sports of her beloved WVU Mountaineers. She can be seen at almost all of their events sporting the blue and gold.

Kim Lord, Chairman
Nominations Committee
Anaheim/Orange County Visitor & Convention Bureau

Jason Lusk, CMP
Membership Committee

Michelle Malloy, CMP, CAE
Golf Committee
Michelle Malloy is the Director of Meetings for the National Association of Regulatory Utility and has been in the meeting planning arena for 17 years. She received her CMP in 1997. Since 1998 Michelle has used her spare time from planning meetings throughout the US, Eastern Europe and Southern Africa, she has been an exceptional volunteer teammate and leader of the AMPs organization. She also shares her skills and knowledge with PCMA and the ALHI Industry Advisory Council.

Brooke McGahey, CMP
Community Services Committee

Blanche Powell
Programs Committee

Angela Rios
Programs Committee
Angela joined Conferon in 1996 in the Tradeshow Division and spent two years doing Exhibitor Services prior to the partnership with Corcoran Expositions. In 1998 she moved over to the Washington DC office to be the first Research Specialist outside of Ohio and was successful as a liaison between the office and Hotel's, CVB's and other industry partners. She worked with Account Executives and hotels to administer the site research process using the DC contacts. In 2004 she took on the responsibilities of a Conferon Express Account Manager full time, handling site research and contract negotiations for accounts based in the Washington, DC area. In addition to AMPs Angela is also a member of NLMP, National Latino Meeting Planners. Angela is a graduate of Slippery Rock University in Northwest Pennsylvania.

Laura Shelton, CMP
Community Services Committee

Gail Swift
Public Relations Committee
Gail is a long time AMPS member who volunteers on several committees; and is a 30 year veteran of the hospitality industry. She is currently Director of Sales, Mid-Atlantic Region for Hilton in their Worldwide Sales Office. Prior to that she was Director of Regional Sales for KSL Resorts.

Maria Vogel
Special Events Committee
Maria Vogel is currently a Senior Project Manager at Meeting Management Services (MMS) a well established meeting planning company located in Washington DC. She first joined MMS in 2005 as a Project Manager and during her first year, Mrs. Vogel worked on conferences ranging in size from 100 to 2,000 attendees in the corporate, government & association markets.

Currently, she oversees the entire aspect of the meeting planning logistics process including program development, speaker management, registration management, budget forecasting, menu & production planning,. Maria has an extensive background in hotel management and is well experienced in catering & convention services.
With her comprehensive hotel management experience, Maria has proven to be a valuable asset to both her clients and the MMS team especially in hotel contract negotiations & site selection.

Before MMS, she spent 7 years with the Grand Hyatt Washington in various management positions including food & beverage outlets, room service, catering & convention services.

Maria received her Bachelor of Science in Hotel, Restaurant & Travel Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and is a Certified Meeting Planner.

Maria is a member of various professional associations including AMP’s, PMPI, IAHMP, Network of Latino Meeting Professionals & YHIP DC Chapter.

Alisha Waid
Hospitality Committee
A local to the area, Alisha Waid started her career in 1991 at The Aluminum Association. She made the leap from meeting planning to hotel sales 10 years ago and has managed the association market for some of the finest 4-Star/4-Diamond resort properties in the US, including El Conquistador in Puerto Rico, The Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables and Loews Miami Beach Hotel in South Beach. Alisha now directs the Mid-Atlantic group sales market for LXR Luxury Resorts & Hotels, which owns and operates over 30 luxury hotels including Boca Raton Resort & Club, Naples Grande, Buena Vista Palace, the Boulders, and El Conquistador. In addition to her LXR national sales role, Alisha serves on the Board of the Potomac Chapter of PMPI, is Co-Chair of the AMPs Hospitality Committee and has contributed her time and expertise to ASAE & the Center, PCMA, the Convention Industry Council, and numerous charity organizations.

Scott Williamson, CHSP, CMP
Membership Committee