Arlene Dickinson
Chief Executive Officer
Venture Communications Ltd.

Arlene Dickinson is CEO of Venture Communications Ltd. and a 20-year veteran in marketing communications.

After joining Venture as a partner in 1988, Arlene took over sole ownership in 1998. Her vision has driven Venture's growth, successfully building it from a local firm into one of Canada's largest independent marketing firms, with offices in Calgary, Toronto and Ottawa.

Arlene believes strongly that marketing's purpose is to deliver business results. She is well known for pioneering how marketing can be accountable to delivering on clients' business goals.

Her accomplishments, vision and leadership have been recognized with several honours and awards. They include: Global Television Woman of Vision; PROFIT and Chatelaine magazine's TOP 100 Women Business Owners; the Pinnacle Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence; Canada's Most Powerful Women Top 100 Hall of Fame; Ad Rodeo's Lifetime Achievement Award; and McGill University's 2008 Management Achievement Award. Perhaps the greatest honour was recognition of Venture as one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies for three consecutive years.

In addition to her busy roles as CEO of Venture, mother of four children and grandmother of two, Arlene finds time to lend her skills and leadership to benefit the industry and the community. She served for many years and in various board roles - including chair - with Ad Rodeo and is past co-chair of the National Board for Kids Help Phone. She is a director of the Calgary Municipal Lands Corporation, 2016 Homeless Foundation and a member of the International Women's Federation (IWF)

Since October 2007, she has appeared as one of the "Dragons" on CBC's Dragons' Den - a national television series which invites people to pitch business ideas to the Dragons, in an effort to persuade them to invest.

Richard Kunz
Principal Consultant, Travel & Hospitality
T4G Ltd

Richard Kunz leads T4G's travel and hospitality consulting practice and provides management consulting for corporate strategies, multi-channel distribution, eCommerce strategies & solutions, reservation systems and marketing programs.

Prior to joining T4G Mr. Kunz was the Vice President of Advance Sales Technology at Intrawest, one of the world's biggest resort operators, where he was responsible for the development and support of the company's reservation systems, and eCommerce platform.

Mr. Kunz has twenty five years of experience as a consultant and senior executive for leading travel and hospitality firms around the world in areas such as IT, marketing, sales, strategic planning and supply chain optimization. His skills span most travel industry verticals including retail and wholesale travel, hospitality firms, cruise lines, airlines, technology providers and global distribution systems.

Mr. Kunz's accomplishments include the development of various IT solutions involving central reservation systems (CRSs), global distribution systems (GDSs), eCommerce solutions, as well as tour, hotel and fares distribution systems. On the business side his background includes the authorship and implementation of an array of corporate strategies and marketing programs.

Having been involved with travel eCommerce for over ten years Mr. Kunz was a pioneer in dynamic packaging and most recently he is focused on defining strategies for clients around the latest trends such as Web 2.0, multi-channel supply chain optimization, experiential travel solutions and catalogue-driven shopping.

Mr. Kunz has been a guest lecturer in the past at Humber College, Toronto, Canada, and with Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He holds a MA-Marketing from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management.

William Bakker
Director, e-Business
Tourism British Columbia

As Director of e-Business at Tourism British Columbia, William Bakker is responsible for the development of strategies to help the BC tourism industry compete in the increasingly important and ever-evolving world of online marketing. His key projects include the development of a consumer web platform that serves as a foundation for market websites around the world and Tourism BC's social media strategy. Before moving to Canada, William lived and worked in the Netherlands. He shares his thoughts about eTourism on his blog www.wilhelmus.ca

David Pavelko
Head of Industry, Travel, Eastern Region
Google, Inc.

David Pavelko is Google's Head of Travel for the Eastern Region. He manages marketing and advertising campaigns for airlines, hotel chains, cruise lines, car rental companies, tourism groups, OTA's, metasearch, and travel publishers across Google's Search, Display, YouTube and TV advertising platforms.

Prior to joining Google, David spent six years at Cendant Corporation, where he was Vice President of Business Development; in this position, he was responsible for developing and managing marketing programs for Fortune 500 organizations for the purposes of leveraging Cendant's travel (Orbitz, CheapTickets, Galileo), hospitality (Ramada Inn, Days Inn, Super 8), car rental (Avis/Budget), real estate, and financial services distribution channels. David also spent time at Choice Hotels in a similar business development capacity as well as a few years in the sports marketing industry. David is a graduate of Princeton University.

Carol Alderdice
Manager, Web Technology
New Brunswick Department of Tourism and Parks

Carol Alderdice is Manager, Web Technology for New Brunswick's Department of Tourism and Parks. She was hired by the Department in December 2004 to identify and resolve issues related to the tourism website and to set up a unit that now provides web, report and online services to the three main branches within Department as well as to Industry and the Operators across the province.

Carol has a varied background in marketing and communications with a little information technology added to the mix. She worked at Nortel Networks, Headquartered in Brampton, Ontario for 20 years in a variety of corporate and senior marketing positions. For the last 10 years at Nortel Networks, Carol was Senior Manager, 9-1-1 Solutions, responsible for Sales, Product Line Management, Marketing, and Implementation of Nortel's 9-1-1 desktop product across North America.

David Alston
Vice President, Marketing & Community
Radian6

David is Vice President of Marketing & Community at social media monitoring solution company, Radian6. David's focus at Radian6 is building the firm's brand internationally through the use of social media monitoring, outreach and engagement.

He is the co-inventor of the "twebinar" format with social media maven, Chris Brogan - the successful three-part summer series featuring some of the world's social media leaders that ran this past summer as a mashup between a traditional video webinar and Twitter.

David has also become a featured speaker and panelist at a number of new marketing, blogging and social media events as an expert on how brands should be listening to consumer generated media online. As one of Twitter's most followed CMO's, David takes his interactive style of marketing to every speaking engagement - listening, learning and engaging with the audience. You can follow David on Twitter at @davidalston. David blogs at TweetPR.

Paolo Boni
President & CEO
VFM Leonardo

Paolo Boni joined VFM Leonardo in October 2001 and is responsible for setting the company's vision and strategic direction, as well as evangelizing the company's unique value proposition to the world. Under Paolo's leadership, VFM Leonardo has become the leading provider of visual content management and distribution solutions for the hotel and travel industry, with over 10,000 hotels and tens of thousands of travel and travel related website partners worldwide.

Paolo is a frequent public speaker and panelist at major travel conferences on subjects relating to online travel marketing. Paolo is a former Partner with Davies, Ward & Beck (now, Davies, Ward, Phillips & Vineberg LLP), a leading Canadian business law firm, practicing primarily in the areas of securities and corporate law with an emphasis on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions. Paolo holds an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School (1993) and a B.A. Economics from McGill University (1989).

Jim Brody
Sales Manager, Destination Marketing
TripAdvisor

Jim Brody heads up destination marketing outreach efforts for TripAdvisor. Jim joined the company in 2005, bringing with him fifteen years experience working with DMOs in the broadcast and internet arenas, and over twenty years experience in media as a whole.

Jim has grown TripAdvisor's DMO team from one to six people, working with two hundred organizations from all over the world, ranging from small towns to whole countries. He specializes in helping his clients navigate the social media terrain and effectively utilize both TripAdvisor and other Web 2.0 sites to market themselves.

He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Patricia Brusha
E-Analyst & Co-Founder
A Couple of Chicks e-Marketing

Patricia Brusha is the co-chair and co-founder of Online Revealed Canada - the Canadian Tourism e-Marketing Conference produced in association with Yahoo! Canada and www.acoupleofchicks.com - an Internet Marketing Company focused on travel and tourism. She has spent 26 years working in the Hospitality Industry in the United States and Canada in the fields of Sales, Hotel Marketing, Internet Distribution and Revenue Management. Together, the "Chicks" have published over 30 articles, launched www.chicksaway.com - a new social media portal for women who travel.

The Chicks have worked with such notable brands as Marriott International and Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, to develop innovative online marketing strategies, and their popular e-marketing workshops have also lead to the upcoming book focused on the "Chicks" non-intimidating approach to marketing online to be launched Spring 2008. Patricia is a Google Certified Professional and a Yahoo Search Ambassador. She has also been on numerous industry panels including; the Distribution Summit in Chicago www.eyefortravel.com , and the Search Engine Strategy Conference in Toronto, www.searchenginewatch.com., and is a regular speaker at leading industry events such as the Travel Alberta Annual Conference, and the Hotel Conference Association of Canada.

Carl Damerow
AdWord Specialist
Google

For the past three years, Carl has worked on the Travel team in Google AdWords as both an Account Optimizer and now as a Marketing Specialist.

He uses his industry knowledge, account best practices, and previous teaching experience to help both new and seasoned advertisers maximize their online return on investment.

Gisèle Danis
Executive Director, Strategic Marketing, Canada Program
Canadian Tourism Commission

Gisèle Danis is the Executive Director of Strategic Marketing, Canada Program for the Canadian Tourism Commission. In her most her recent role (2005-2009) as Executive Director of Global Brand Integration, Gisèle contributed to the strategic development and global implementation of Canada's Tourism brand; which recently rose from #6 world tourism brand to #2 world tourism brand, in the Country Brand Index 2009. Gisèle has been responsible for the management and engagement of the brand internally at the CTC as well as throughout Canada's tourism industry.

Gisèle's expertise in tourism, brand optimization, partnerships, communications & public relations and promotions is validated by eight years at The Walt Disney Company, ten years as a television reporter and anchor at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Société Radio-Canada and a term in marketing/communications at Canada's National Parks System. As leader of the Canada Domestic program - a two year stimulus project, Gisèle and her team, will be working with industry to develop a national advertising campaign to encourage Canadians to stay home & "keep exploring" their great country.

Christi Day
Online Spokesperson and Emerging Media Specialist
Southwest Airlines

Christi Day serves as an online Spokesperson for Southwest Airlines, the nation's largest airline in terms of domestic Customers boarded. Christi specializes in Emerging Media and web 2.0. Christi consistently works to keep Southwest Airlines in the forefront of the new media world when it comes to messaging and trends.

In addition to her online media relations duties, Christi works as the "voice" behind the Southwest Airlines Twitter account (Southwestair) and as a moderator and blogger on Nuts About Southwest (www.blogsouthwest.com). She intimately understands the reach of the media and has been the author of several successful story placements creating positive buzz for Southwest Airlines.

Prior to joining the Emerging Media Team at Southwest Airlines, Christi worked in Public Relations at STA Travel and for the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce. A Fort Worth native, Christi hails from Texas Christian University where she received a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism.

Mr. Malcolm Fraser
President and Managing Partner
ISL Inc.

As the President and Managing Partner of ISL, Malcolm is a leading entrepreneur with 12 years of Internet industry experience. Focusing on creative technology solutions that leverage the Internet to solve complex business and marketing problems has earned him local and national recognition.

Malcolm is responsible for driving Internet initiatives that generate significant business results for clients such as NS Tourism - novascotia.com, NS Heritage, Jacques Whitford, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Steele Auto Group and Nova Scotia Business Inc. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Mount Allison University and has long be involved in the development o the information technology industry provincially and nationally. He is currently the Chairman of the Information Technology Alliance of Nova Scotia (ITANS), a member of the Premier's Council on Innovation, past chair of the Canadian Information Communications and Technology Federation, member of the Atlantic Canada Internet Marketing Association, and has been recognized as one of Atlantic Canada's top 50 CEOs.

Mandy Gresh
Country Manager
Travelzoo

Mandy Gresh has served as Country Manager for online travel deal publisher, Travelzoo since leading the company's expansion into Canada in March 2006.

Gresh has been responsible for attaining over 800,000 active Canadian leisure travellers and has helped over 100 Canadian travel companies leverage Travelzoo.ca and the Travelzoo Top 20 to drive direct incremental bookings.

From 2004 to 2006 Gresh served as a producer at Travelzoo's headquarters in New York. From 2002 to 2004, Gresh worked in media relations for Fairmont Hotels & Resorts in New York. Between 2001 and 2002, Gresh was an account executive at Ruder Finn Public Relations in New York and was responsible for hotel brands such as Four Seasons, The Roosevelt New York and Rome Caveleri Hilton in Italy.

Gresh holds a B.A. in Mass Communications from the State University of New York College at Oswego.

Claude Guay
Senior Strategy Analyst
PhoCusWright Inc.

Mr. Guay is a recognized leader in general management, with particular expertise in business development, sales and marketing using strategic applications of technology.

A widely recognized and often quoted expert in travel-related e-commerce and technology, Claude participates as a keynote speaker at many travel conferences and has been quoted and published in numerous trade publications. He has held seats on various boards and was a founding member of the Technology Committee of the Canadian Tourism Commission.

Claude founded MTI Services in 2005 to provide management consulting services related to business strategy, technology and innovation. Other prior experience includes Executive vice president and CIO of Gildan Activewear, president and CEO of Accovia Inc., and Marketing and Solution Executive positions with the Global Travel and Transportation Industry Unit of IBM.

A member of the Young President's Organization, Claude is a graduate of Industrial Engineering from l'École Polytechnique de Montréal and a professional engineer since 1984.

Jérôme Guidollet
Co-Founder
TravelAlerts.ca

Jérôme Guidollet is the co-founder of Travelalerts.ca, an online publisher of travel deals that sends out a weekly email newsletter to over 700,000 potential travelers.

Jérôme has over 10 years of experience in the Travel industry. Between 1996 and 1999 he collaborated with some of the world's largest travel companies including Best Western, Accor and Transat in numerous web-related projects. In 2000 he became Vice President of NetGroup Travel, a Canadian pioneer in online travel. In 2002 he joined Air Canada's E-Commerce department as Manager of Relationship Building and Innovation where he helped develop the company's online products and services bringing the division to a profitable stage.

Jérôme graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor in Commerce, and from Cornell - ESSEC Business School with an MBA in International Hospitality Management.

Daniel Helmhold
Google AdWords Partner Development
Google Inc.

Daniel Helmhold has worked in Google's advertising sales department for over 5 years. In that time, he has helped develop their Account Management and New Client Acquisitions teams, working at both the Google Headquarters in Mountain View as well their European Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Darryl Jang
Business Development Manager - Americas/Travel
GlobalCollect

Darryl is part of the business development team at GlobalCollect, the world's premier payment service provider of local e-payments. Darryl brings 10 years of experience in the payment industry with him, having held key roles in customer service, integrations, engineering, and consulting. In his current position, Darryl consults companies in the travel industry to expand their global e-commerce activities by offering a wide array of preferred payments methods. Among others, clients include airlines, online travel agencies, cruises and car rentals.

Prior to joining GlobalCollect, Darryl held a Lead Engagement Manager position on PayPal's merchant services team, where he was responsible for managing PayPal's integration with leading e-commerce merchants like 1-800-Flowers, Barnes and Noble, Disney, and Time Warner as well as partners such as Paymentech and UATP. During the latter part of his tenure, Darryl supported PayPal's expansion into the airline industry, assisting Northwest Airlines, Southwest Airlines, US Airways, Jetblue, and Delta to integrate PayPal payments into their sales platform.

Before that, Darryl was a senior software engineer for CyberSource Corporation, a provider of electronic payment and risk management solutions. In this role, he was responsible for designing and developing the core back-end infrastructure while also building new payment gateways for domestic and international banks and payment processors.

Darryl is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in English Literature.

Stephen Joyce
President
Sentias Software Corp.

Stephen A. Joyce has been working as a travel & tourism technology consultant since 1995. In 2005 Stephen and his company, Sentias Software Corp., began development on Rezgo.com, a next generation Web 2.0 tour and activity booking engine for tour and activity providers.

Stephen is also very active in fostering tourism technology and is the founding President of the North American Chapter of the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT North America). He is the publisher of the Tips from the T-List books, a series of ground-breaking books that bring together travel industry bloggers from around the World. The success of the book has resulted in workshops and speaking engagements on Social media & User generated content around the World.

In addition to his tourism initiatives, Stephen is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce, Chair of the Website Subcommittee for Vancouver's NorthShore Tourism Association, Executive with the Canadian E-Tourism Council, and formerly on the Board of Directors of the Pacific Club and the COHO Society of the North Shore. In his free time, he teaches leadership and aviation to air cadets at the 525 Squadron in West Vancouver.

Stephen is a graduate of Capilano University, is a certified Commercial Pilot, and holds a certificate in IT Management.

Stephen is married and has two beautiful daughters.

Chaunsea Keller
Vice President Business Development
E-proDirect

Chaunsea Keller has been with E-proDirect for 4 years - the company specializes in hospitality marketing for suppliers to gain additional group and convention business through their database of over 85,000 qualified meeting planners. Prior to this position, she was a Director of Sales & Marketing for a boutique property, and also worked for several years in sales, marketing, and PR for Fairmont Hotels & Resorts.

She has over 12 years in sales, marketing, and PR experience. She works with clients such as Disney, Marriott, Starwood, independent properties, CVBs, and other non-traditional hospitality suppliers.

Anne Axler Larcade
President & COO
Sequel Hotels and Resorts

Anne has been involved in the hospitality and service sectors for over 20 years. Her professional background includes a variety of roles as entrepreneur, general manager, shareholder, director, COO, consultant, project manager and overall "doer". With her extensive hospitality experience, in 2005 she founded Sequel Hotels and Resorts - a collection of unique lifestyle properties, where she is President and COO.

Sequel Hotels and Resorts is involved in the management of 5 unique lifestyle boutique properties and has a number of acquisitions and management contracts in development. This growing portfolio currently includes HV Muskoka Resort, Benmiller Inn and Spa, Elora Mill Inn, Chateau Beauvallon and Touchstone on Lake Muskoka. Anne's service philosophy is evident in Sequel's non-hierarchal team and a corporate culture which encourages empowerment, balanced living, human capital and a healthy working environment for all staff.

Anne is a sought after speaker on the subjects of hospitality, people resources, inspired leadership, eco-tourism, e-commerce, internet web maximization/search engine optimization and customer service. She is also an outspoken advocate for disabled children and has been dubbed 'the Canadian Erin Brokovitch' by Canada AM's Seamus O'Regan for her role in lobbying the Ontario government to re-instate funding for special needs families.

Anne holds a BA from Trent University with a double major in Comparative Development and Cultural Studies. She currently lives in Huntsville with her two sons, Alexandre and Emile.

Jenn Lowther
Director of Social Media Marketing
6S Marketing

Jenn Lowther joins the 6S team as the Director of Social Media Marketing following a lengthy and impressive career in the field. Prior to 6S, Lowther held the position of Social Media Strategist at Invoke in Vancouver and has a history of similar work with companies in the software, gaming and technology industries. Her work at Invoke led her to develop significant experience and expertise in blogging, video contests, social media strategy and implementation, blogger outreach, viral marketing, copy writing, analytics, account management, business development, SEO & PPC.

Jenn received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing, with a double major in Economics from Simon Fraser University. A highly regarded veteran of North American social media scene, Jenn sits on the Organizing Committee for Northern Voice, Canada's largest blogging and social media conference that takes place February 20-21 in Vancouver. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and events and is a networking maven, attending an average of ten events each month.

Jenn is well versed, well connected and well positioned to lead the division of social media marketing for 6S and brings both energy, expertise and valuable experience in approaching client work.

Tom McLellan
T4G Ltd.

Tom McLellan is responsible for T4G's marketing systems team, delivering technology solutions to help marketers to acquire, engage, and retain customers online. With 13 years experience in online marketing and IT project management, Tom has served in various online tourism roles from DMO marketing to web site planning and delivery.

Since joining T4G, Tom has worked closely with Tourism & Parks New Brunswick to help manage their existing web platform, collaborate with other agencies and stakeholders, and plan new online initiatives.

Eduardo Mandri
Co-Founder
TravelAlerts.ca

Eduardo Mandri is the co-founder of TravelAlerts.ca, a weekly email publication that alerts over 700,000 Canadians of outstanding travel deals. By publishing 7 regional newsletters, Travelalerts.ca is able to geo-target its email communications, thereby providing Canadians with a variety of personalized travel deals to choose from.

Prior to launching Travelalerts.ca in 2004, Eduardo spent 10 years launching Internet start-ups and working in the online travel industry. As an early web entrepreneur in 1999, he founded and developed U-Swap, an online book exchange service that grew into Canada's leading website for students. He has also worked at Air Canada, where he served as e-Business Director and later as Director of Web Analytics and Content Management. Following his 5-year stint at Air Canada, Eduardo addressed the travel industry's need for cost-effective advertising channels by launching Travelalerts.ca.

Eduardo Mandri holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business, as well as an MBA from McGill University.

Patrick Payne
Co-Founder and CEO
QuickMobile

Patrick is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of QuickMobile, and has more than 30 years experience as a pioneer in emerging technologies.

Prior to QuickMobile, Patrick was founder and CEO of Mobile Operandi Communication which developed the "Mophone" mobile consumer social networking service before being sold to Vantage Point Venture Partners in 2006. Previous to this, he spent 5 years at Ericsson as Director of Mobile Internet based in Brussels, Belgium where he was responsible for divisional sales, business development, mobile strategy, and external partnering. In 1989, Patrick co-founded Vancouver-based Memex Software which developed a digital TV management platform for global satellite broadcast systems. While working at Distinctive Software during the late-80's (now Electronic Arts Canada), Patrick scored the original music for the video game Test Drive - which eventually grew into the world's best selling racing game franchise.

For six years Patrick served as a director of the Wireless Innovation Network of BC (WINBC) and is currently a founding director of Wavefront AC an organization that assists mobile businesses with commercial acceleration and helps foster collaboration amongst early-stage wireless companies in Canada. He holds a BA from the University of British Columbia with a double major in Film & Television and Music.

Edward Perry
Senior Director of E-Commerce
WORLDHOTELS

With over 20 years of industry exposure, Edward Perry has been with WORLDHOTELS for over eight years. During his tenure at WORLDHOTELS, he began in the corporate sales division, managing sales for the Northeastern USA. His most current appointment is as Senior Director of E-Commerce. In this position, Edward manages strategic alliances in the Americas and Asia between online booking and technology partners and WORLDHOTELS' portfolio of close to 500 properties worldwide.

Prior to his work at WORLDHOTELS, Edward took on a variety of industry positions in sales and marketing at various hotel levels, including in the area of corporate housing. His most recent position prior to WORLDHOTELS was the role as travel manager for Macy's West in San Francisco where he oversaw an air budget of ten million as well as the company's corporate credit card, hotel, car and calling card programs. He was instrumental in the roll-out of Macy's West's first online travel booking engine.

Edward has a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and German from Schiller International University in Heidelberg, Germany and a MBA in Global Business Management from the University of Phoenix. He currently sits on the Board of HEDNA and is a Destination Educational Leader for Online Revealed and Co-Chair of Online Revealed Caribbean.

Carson Pierce
Project Manager
Idea Market

Since beginning his professional website development career seven years ago, Carson has been involved in nearly every facet of the industry; from marketing to design to coding. By 2004, he realized that he just wasn't that good of a designer and teamed up with someone who was to form Idea Market Design. Within a few years, a second company - Point B Marketing - was created to focus in on the needs of the marketing and design needs of the tourism industry.

While Carson still ends up doing a bit of everything, his day-to-day role now is Project Manager. His breadth of experience helps him understand each stage of the website development process... and get them done.

Carson has a BComm in Marketing, parents two small children and has won his fantasy hockey league two years in a row.

Tom Price
Vice President Sales & Marketing
White Oaks Conference Resort & Spa

Tom graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa in 1980, and completed addition studies in Urban Planning, Tourism and Business at both Ottawa and Ryerson Universities. Tom has enjoyed a twenty-year plus career in Hospitality Marketing working for such brands as Fairmont, Marriott, and Starwood as well as spending time in his own consulting practice called "Web Communication". Most recently he was Director of Sales and Marketing overseeing the meeting and convention division of Ottawa Tourism. While at Ottawa Tourism he invented a web based meeting-planning application called MeetingsEasy™ winning "Innovator of the Year" from the Tourism Industry Association of Canada.

Tom speaks regularly at conferences on web marketing and green/sustainability action plans and is an activate member of industry associations.

Edward Radonic
Managing Partner, Director of Marketing
RadonicRodgers design+marketing

Edward Radonic is the Managing Partner of RadonicRodgers Communications Inc. Edward, has led RadonicRodgers into the Travel Marketing Specialty, and was marketing leader for marketing programs and campaigns for various travel sectors such as Destinations, Attractions, Hotels & Resorts, Tour Operators, Travel Agents and Airlines. Some of these organizations include; OMCA, WestJet Vacations, Globus Family of Brands, Tourisim Ireland, Tourisim Spain, Renaissance & Marriott Hotels & Resorts, Ensemble Travel and Thomas Cook Travel just to name a few. Edward is also a member of the SK.L International Club of Toronto for Travel Professionals. Edward and RadonicRodgers' team collaborated with the WestJet team, and together launched the first WestJet Vacations Travel brochure.

Edward's career in the marketing industry started 20 years ago with a firm that he owned and subsequently sold prior to founding RadonicRodgers. Presently, at the age of 38 he has earned accolades attributed to his entrepreneurship, founded 6 firms, navigated multiple mergers, acquisitions and sales of companies. He continues to be instrumental in RadonicRodgers achieving Canada's Top Marketing Firm status, which has won numerous marketing and creative awards and is one of Canada's fastest growing companies two years in a row (5 year growth at 961%).

Edward lends his keen entrepreneurial and marketing sense to help RadonicRodgers' clients succeed. When clients come to us to market their product, service or destination, our goal is to achieve the highest possible Return on Investment (ROI) for our clients. We are continually developing unique and effective strategic marketing programs and then tweaking them, while monitoring and improving our own results year to year that result in increasingly higher and measurable ROI. Edward Radonic looks forward to addressing marketing challenges by developing new strategies to combat them.

Brian C. Silengo
Associate Vice President, Global Hospitality Sales
TIG Global

In his role at TIG Global, Mr. Silengo manages the company's regional business-development team, a position that involves overseeing sales of the company's best-of-breed services and cutting-edge technology. He has played an integral part in relationship development with brands and independent hotels alike, with an emphasis on the Northeastern U.S. and Canadian markets. Since joining TIG Global in 2007, Mr. Silengo has been vital to TIG Global's sales operations through his ability to drive new sales and develop key customer partnerships.

Before joining TIG Global, Mr. Silengo operated in key sales management roles with Marriott International, with a strong focus on resort and city center conference and group sales. In his tenure with Marriott he represented hotels in New Orleans, Denver and Southeast Florida in numerous sales capacities.

In addition to his work experience, Mr. Silengo holds a Bachelors Degree from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA, and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Miami in Miami, FL.

Since working with TIG Global, Mr. Silengo has had the pleasure to work with a variety of brands, including Marriott International, Preferred Hotel Group and Leading Hotels of the World, as well as individual hotels, including the Willard Intercontinental, Sea Island Resort, the Vikram Chatwal Hotel Group, and the Statler Hotel at Cornell University.

Brian Simpson
General Manager
Travelocity.ca

As General Manager, Brian is responsible for managing Travelocity.ca's operations and public relations initiatives. Brian also works with travel suppliers to acquire more content and manage Travelocity Canada's relationships with key partners in the Canadian and international travel industry. He is based in Toronto.

Prior to joining Travelocity.ca, Brian held a variety of positions in the Canadian Division of Sabre Travel Network, including Training, Technical Sales Specialist and Account Executive. Most recently he held the position of Canadian Marketing Manager, where he was responsible for all Marketing and Public Relations activities, including spearheading initiatives to raise the profile of Sabre Travel Network and Sabre Connected travel agencies in Canada.

Brian began his career in the travel industry in 1986 at Wardair, in both the Reservations and Marketing departments, before joining Sabre in 1989.

Born in London, England, he has lived in the Toronto area for most of his life and enjoys travelling, public speaking and the arts.

Vimal Siva
Senior Director of Account Management & Product Development
Searchlinqs

Vimal has been with Searchlinqs since it launched in 2006. In his current role Vimal is accountable for the Account Management team at Searchlinqs who are directly responsible for the day to day manangement of accounts to ensure a positive return on investment (ROI). Vimal also manages the Enterprise Accounts and takes an active role in business development initiatives and sales strategy along with the company's research & development and media relations. Vimal has a Bachelor of Engineering (ES&C) with a specialization in Mechatronics and a BAdm Business Administration from the University of Guelph.

Melinda E. Van Patter
Client Relations Manager
Marketwire

Melinda is a Client Relations Manager for Marketwire, a global newswire organization, helping clients to get their news in front of stakeholders, investors, the financial community, the media and online communities. In this sales position, Melinda strives to educate her clients on how to effectively target their messages, while both meeting regulatory compliance and getting the most attention.

She previously worked at The Canadian Press, Canada's National News Agency, advising public relations professionals on how to best get media pickup. Melinda is an experienced public speaker, with many years of both professional and theatrical performances. She is a graduate of Simon Fraser University in Mass Communications, and recently trained by Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States, to present "An Inconvenient Truth" through the Climate Project Canada.

Melinda is currently on the Board of Directors of The Media Foundation, a not for profit association to assist not for profits and a member of the International Association of Business Communicators.

Melinda lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and enjoys weekends at her cottage, 125 acres of pristine wetlands and forest, with her husband and 3 sons. She loves to travel and a day is not complete unless she can solve a problem or bring a smile to someone's face.

Alicia Whalen
Co-Founder
A Couple of Chicks e-Marketing

Alicia Whalen is the co-founder of www.acoupleofchicks.com and www.onlinerevealed.com - recognized as the prominent hospitality and travel Internet marketing strategy consultancy firm in Canada and beyond. She has also developed a successful online tourism marketing Blog; www.ideahatching.com and continues to educate about search engine optimization and Online Marketing best practices with the "Chicks" popular e-Marketing workshops and speaking engagements, which include; Quebec Tourism Annual Conference, the Student Youth and Travel Association Conference, and the Travel Media Association of Canada Conference.

Alicia has worked to develop online marketing strategies for such notable companies and Marriott International, Nova Scotia Tourism, Niagara Falls Tourism and Fairmont Hotels and Resorts. Together, the "Chicks" have published over 30 articles on search marketing best practices and they are currently working on their first Online Marketing Guide to be published this spring.

Speaking & Workshop Requirements

What differentiates Online Revealed from other conferences is the unique practical applications provided in our workshops. Positioned as the "how to" conference for online travel marketing, we appreciate your application in teaching these valuable workshops.

Our mandate is to provide quality education for the Canadian Travel Professional in a non-intimidating environment.

All proposals are due by January 15, 2009

• Please provide a brief outline or agenda of your workshop or presentation topics
• Please indicate whether you are interested in Sponsorship Opportunities
• Please provide a brief Bio
• Please provide a list of recent speaking engagements

All speakers are responsible for their own transportation and expenses. Complimentary registration for the event will be given for anyone confirmed as a speaker, panelist or workshop leader.

We highly encourage sponsors of the event to apply to enhance your conference exposure. If you meet the above guidelines, please send your speaking request to:

Patricia Brusha
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