25th Anniversary Committee
Kim Allison, CAE,CASE is currently the National Sales Manager for the Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Assoication.
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.
Special Events Committee
Molly Bartkowski has worked in the meetings and events industry for over eight years, and is the former Executive Director for
AMPs. She spent three years as an event planner at The George Washington University Business School Office of Special Events,
and six years as a planner at Courtesy Associates in Washington, DC. In March 2007, she started her own event planning company
called Simply Vintage Event Management, where she now manages a wide range of client events ranging from small meetings and
conferences, to weddings, private parties, and even estate sales and art exhibitions. Molly graduated from Gettysburg College
in 1999 with a B.A. in Spanish, and became a Certified Meeting Professional in 2007. In her spare time she can be found scouring
local yard sales, at yoga class, or taking care of her "urban garden" at her house in Dupont Circle.
Golf Committee
Membership Committee
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 meetingsà profession for more than 20 years, Nell has worked in the PCVB satellite office for seven years and has been an AMPsÃ
member since 1999. She just completed a two-year Board term and has actively served on the Membership, Community Service and Hospitality
committees.
Newsletter Committee
Linda Cole, Senior Account Executive for the Chicago Marriott Magnificent Mile since 2003. She works from her home in Mt. Laurel, NJ
handling the Washington DC, MD and VA Association Market (and her 4 year old twins Jamie and Jake). Linda has been with Marriott for 15
years in which she has held numerous positions to include; Director of Business and Leisure Travel, Director of Public Relations and
Marketing Communications, Pre-Opening Sales Executive for the Renaissance Grand Hotel in St. Louis and the Philadelphia Marriott.
She earned her C.A.S.E designation through PCMA in 2002. She has been a member of AMPs since 2001. Linda is a graduate from Rider University
with a BS in Business.
Golf 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 .
Programs Committee
Membership Committee
Jeremy Figoten is the Vice President of Meetings & Expositions for the National Apartment Association (NAA). Jeremy has been with NAA
since October 2000. He graduated with a BA in Public Communications and an MA in Public Communications from American University. Along
with AMPs, Jeremy is active with his local PCMA and MPI chapters and was awarded by AMPs as the 2003-2004 Outstanding Meeting Professional
of the Year.
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.
Programs Committee
Elizabeth Hamilton is a Senior Event Coordinator for Leading Authorities, Inc., a Speakers Bureau in Washington, DC. Elizabeth has been
with Leading Authorities, Inc for three years. Prior to returning to the DC area in 2003, Elizabeth lived and worked in Budapest and Vienna.
She received her BA in Communications from DePauw University. For the past two years Elizabeth served as the AMPs Program Committee Co-Chair.
Awards Committee
Susan Haning began her career with AVW-TELAV Audio Visual, Inc. as the National Sales Manager on February 17, 1998. Prior to that she spent
approximately 10 years on the decorating side of the association industry. Susan started her career in 1987 as a Customer Service
Representative for Andrews-Bartlett Exposition Services and 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.
Nominations Committee
Anaheim/Orange County Visitor & Convention Bureau
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.
Awards Committee
Community Services Committee
Michelle A. Morgan joined the Palm Springs Desert Resorts Convention and Visitors Authority (CVA) as Regional Director of Sales for the
CVA's Washington D.C. office. Morgan, a resident of Alexandria, Virginia, was formerly with the Jacksonville & The Beaches Convention and
Visitors Bureau, where she served as Director, Eastern Region Convention Sales. She has also held positions as National Sales Manager,
Mid-Atlantic and Southeast Regions for Vail Resorts, Inc.; Director of Group Sales for The Sheraton Barcelo Hotel; Director of Operations
for Elle K. Associates Inc., Meeting Planning Company; Sales Manager for The Melrose Hotel Company; Manager of Business Travel for The
Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company; and Sales Manager for the Wyndham Bristol Hotel. Morgan holds a BA in Psychology from George Mason University
in Fairfax, Virginia, and achieved the Dean's List at West Virginia University, Morgantown. She is a member of the American Society of
Association Executives; Meeting Professionals International, Potomac Chapter; Association of Meeting Professionals; The Washington Area
Convention Bureau Satellite Offices; Society of Government Meeting Professionals; and Professional Convention Management Association.
Public Relations Committee
Kristen Parker, Senior Account Executive for the Renaissance Austin Hotel since 2004, is based locally working from her home office in
Maryland. Kristen started in the hotel industry in 1991 at the Westborough Marriott in Massachusetts working in various F&B positions
as well as Director of Guest Services. She relocated to the DC area in 1994 taking a position at the Hyatt Arlington. Kristen transitioned
to sales in 1998 at the Wyndham City Center Hotel. She held various positions for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts through 2003 including Director
of Group Sales and remote sales manager for the Wyndham Orlando Resort. Kristen has been working exclusively with association clients since
1999 and earned her C.A.S.E. designation through PCMA in 2004. She has been an active member of AMPs for 6 years, participating in the
Membership and PR Committees. Kristen graduated from The College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA with degrees in sociology and art.
Kristen also earned her NASD Series 7 license in 2003.
Special Events Committee
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.
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.
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.
Special Events Committee
Laura Weaver, CMP is the Director of Meetings and Conventions for the Society of American Florists located in Alexandria, VA. She is
responsible for program development, and overall planning, logistics and implementation of SAF's meetings, conferences and annual
convention. She has been in the meetings industry for 14 years, and joined SAF in 2004. A certified meeting professional since 2001,
Laura has worked for Consumer Bankers Association and Precision Metalforming Association. She has a BA in history from Geneva College
in Beaver Falls, Pa. and is also a graduate of the Institute for Organizational Management. Laura serves on the AMP's 25th Anniversary
Committee and is also an active in the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA). She currently serves as Chair of PCMA's
Industry Research Committee.
Community Services Committee
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