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Julie Gordon, CMP, Accenture

 

Julie Gordon has over 18 years of experience in the meeting planning and hospitality industries. For over eight years has been the lead meeting planner for Accenture, managing all aspects of events for both large and small groups in Chicago and around the globe. Previously, Julie worked for several large hotel chains in both the downtown Chicago and O'hare markets. A graduate of the University of Denver’s renown Hotel and Restaurant Management Program, Julie became a Certified Meeting Planner in 1999.

 

 

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Rick Hulme, General Manager for Enterprise Conference Solutions

 

Mr. Hulme has spent his career working in technology. For the last 8 years his work has focused on the meetings industry. Mr. Hulme has held numerous leadership positions in the technology industry and within the events industry he has held the positions of V.P. of Operations, V.P. of Customer Service and V.P. of Field Sales and Service. Mr. Hulme has degrees in Electronics, Accounting, and Finance. He resides in Alpine Utah with his wife and five children.

 

 

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Kristin Warren, CMP, MBA, President of K Group, LLC

 

Kristin is the president of K Group, LLC providing registration management services for the meetings industry including strategic management and execution of large scale registration plans and staff deployment for such conferences as : Consumer Electronics Show (CES) - 120,000 attendees; American Dental Association (ADA) - 80,000 attendees; Specialty Equipment Market Assoc. (SEMA) - 50,000 attendees; RSA Security Conference - 14,000 attendees; QualComm Brew Conference - 2,800 attendees; Shaklee Corp. – 8,000 attendees and OSIsoft User Conferences – 2,000 attendees.

 

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Doug Melinn, CMP, Director of Customer Loyalty, Passkey

Mr. Melinn, is a fifteen-year veteran of the hotel industry. he brings experience from major hotel chains including Hyatt, Marriott and Sheraton in both operations and sales. Previous positions at Passkey include serving in the client services group and most recently as Regional Business Development Director. Mr. Melinn has spoken on various industry issues such as attrition, housing best practices and emerging meeting planning technologies at industry events such as PCMA, SCMP, and ACOM.

 

 

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Reggie Aggarwal, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cvent

 

Reggie Aggarwal is the CEO and Founder of Cvent, a profitable venture-backed CRM software company located in McLean , Virginia . Cvent has quickly grown to be the largest event management software company in the country. Forbes Magazine named Reggie as one of the rising stars of Washington . Meeting News, the largest magazine in the industry, named him as one of the 25 most influential people in the $100 billion dollar meetings industry. Reggie has appeared on ABC News, CBS News, NBC News and CNN's “Moneyline with Lou Dobbs” as an authority on meetings and technology.

 

 

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Nicholas Balletta, CEO, TalkPoint

 

Nicholas Balletta is CEO and a managing member of TalkPoint and has been a webcasting executive since 1998 with the founding TalkPoint’s predecessor company, NextVenue Inc. Mr. Balletta received a master’s in business administration from the Rutgers graduate school of management.