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Markus Boeker Markus Boeker is Senior Market Manager in charge of New York and the greater Tri-State area on Travelport’s Internet booking sites, Orbitz.com and Cheaptickets.com. He began his career in the hospitality industry in Germany in 1994 as a travel agent for American Express. In 1997, he fulfilled his lifelong dream to work and live in New York when he joined New World Travel, the Receptive Tour Operator for two of the largest Germany based hospitality companies, DERTOUR and Meier’s Weltreisen, in their group department. He ultimately became Product Manager in charge of contracting Tour Series as well as Attractions for the Northeast. In July 2004, he transferred his experience in the hospitality industry to the Internet side of the business when he became Market Manager for Orbitz.com. Markus serves on the Board of Directors for the HSMAI Big Apple Chapter and is fluent in both English and German. ___________________________________________________________________________ Lou Zameryka, Louis Zameryka is currently the Senior Account Manager for the North Eastern US at Booking.com. He has been with Booking.com since September 2006, and manages a dynamic team of account managers. With over 58,000 hotel partners throughout the world, Booking.com is continuing their 10 year success story here in North America At 18 years old, Louis began his hospitality career as a reservations manager at the Holiday Inn in Rockville Centre, New York. All it took was a taste of the Hospitality industry to get this young man hooked. In the 10 years that have followed, Louis has been involved in the opening of The Inn at Fox Hollow, an upscale all suite hotel in Long Island New York, as the front desk manager. Louis later assumed the role of corporate sales manager for the property. Shortly thereafter, Lou’s next stop was New York City for the opening of Hotel Gansevoort in the ultra hip Meatpacking District. Louis has been involved in roles as a staff trainer and advisor on many other projects and has worked with other boutique hotel properties in NYC. ______________________________________________________________________________
Laura Osborne is Executive Vice President of Strategic Development for Intelligent Hotels (formerly OZone Strategic Marketing LLC), an independent consulting firm developing and implementing cutting-edge revenue growth strategies for the hospitality industry. Our global team of Senior Revenue Management Specialists work in tandem with hundreds of hotels, evaluating and enhancing each property's position within their competitive market, successfully developing strong sales, distribution and channel management strategies, then implementing aggressive pricing tactics. In some cases we just help get your house team to the next level, or in other cases we do it all for you...in each case, our clients get the results! Headquartered in Stamford, CT, for the past ten years, OZone has been marketing and developing sales strategies and revenue management consulting services www.intelligenthotels.com and/or www.ozonemarketing.com. Prior to co-founding Intelligent Hotels (and OZone Strategic Marketing), Osborne had served 18 years in multi-faceted sales and marketing roles in both Canada and the USA. She spent her first years at Bates Advertising headquartered in Toronto as a Media Planner and Buyer. Later, Osborne joined Rogers Broadcasting in their Media Sales unit developing national campaigns and promotions specializing on retail and hospitality clients. Upon moving to the US, she joined TravelCLICK, Inc as Director of Sales and was responsible for establishing both print and interactive GDS media sales and promotions for the New York entertainment marketplace. She subsequently joined Sabre and was responsible for developing and launching Co-Op Sabre Destination Marketing Programs. A native of Toronto, Canada, Osborne lives in Stamford, CT, with her husband and their two sons. Osborne serves on the board of the HSMAI Big Apple Chapter, is an active volunteer with Sound Waters, an environmental organization for Long Island Sound ______________________________________________________________________________
Alissa is currently the Director of Sales for Sabre Hospitality Solutions. She helps empower hotel operators to consolidate and manage hotel inventory from all sources -- seamless GDS connectivity, popular Internet travel sites, private-label central reservations systems, and full-service hotel Web sites. Alissa is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration where she served as President of the Cornell Hotel Society, Collegiate Chapter. Alissa is currently a board member of The Cornell Hotel Society's New York Chapter. She has previous work experience in HR and training at The New York Palace Hotel, corporate development for Marriott Vacation Club, and brand marketing for W Hotels. ______________________________________________________________________________
Kathie Stapleton is a graduate of St. John’s University in Jamaica, New York with a BS in Education. She initially joined HSMAI as part time summer help for her father, Frank W. Berkman, CHME, then Executive Vice President of HSMAI. In 1975, she accepted the additional responsibility of Executive Secretary for the HSMAI Big Apple Chapter and in 1983, Meeting Professionals International, www.mpi.org a new organization at the time, asked her to be their administrator as well. She was the recipient of the Big Apple Chapter’s “Golden Apple” award in 1981 and the MPIGNY’s “President’s Award” in 1995. In that same year, Meeting News named her one of the 25 most influential people in the meetings industry. Kathie is married to her college sweetheart, Frank, who is President of his own company, The Monarch Group Ltd., a hotel sales and marketing representation firm. They live and work together from their home in Briarcliff Manor, NY.
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Laura Osborne
Alissa Stock
Kathie Stapleton