< PreviousCAREERTRACK 50 Visit Salt Lake (VSL) has brought in Donna Rogers as the first director of convention sales for the West Coast Office. Rogers has plenty of experience in the industry after working in it for more than 20 years, including for Hyatt Hotels, The Venetian, Canyon Ranch, FRHI Hotels & Resorts and the Teneo Hospitality Group. The Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau (PWCVB) has announced the promotion of Anissa Ladd to director of sales. Before this role, she was the director of national accounts for PWCVB for four years, but she has spent almost three decades in the hospitality industry working with various hotels, primarily in sales positions. The Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau has brought on Nik Pereira as vice president of sales. Before this position, he spent more than 20 years in the industry, having worked with the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, Hersha Hospitality Management, the Boston Park Plaza, The Westin Philadelphia and The Westin Waltham-Boston, as well as Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide and others. Visit Oakland welcomes Carole Manning-Kim as director of sales for the city’s official Destination Man- agement Organization (DMO). She brings more than 25 years of experience in the industry, previously work- ing in sales and marketing for Sonesta Hotels and BPR Hotels, as well as working for Joie de Vivre Hotels, in addition to other positions. A member of the ShelbyKY Tourism team since 2016, Chenelle McGee has taken on a position with the Ken- tucky Department of Tourism. Her new role will be the travel promotion specialist supervisor. McGee began working with ShelbyKY as a marketing director, and became president and CEO in 2021. She also served for several years in the U.S. Marines. Experience Columbia SC announced it has hired Beth Shaffer and Danna Lilly as their new sales man- agers. The duo will be responsible for selling the area as a premier destination for meetings and events of all types. Shaffer has more than two decades in the indus- try. She has worked most recently at Resort Lifestyle Communities and has also worked with other hotels such as Embassy Suites and The DeSoto Savannah. Lilly has been in the industry for more than 30 years, including working for Kingston Resorts, Visit Myrtle Beach, Meet in South Carolina and elsewhere. Spectra, which is the provider of venue manage- ment for the Owensboro Convention Center, has announced that it has added several members to their team. Among those is Josh Gann, who has been named as their director of sales. Gann has more than two decades of sales experience in the industry. | AC&F | themeetingmagazines.comASSOCIATION CONVENTIONS & FACILITIESJANUARY 2022 SHAFFERMCGEE GANNLILLY MANNING-KIMPEREIRA LADDROGERS PICASSO AT BELLAGIO IS WHERE IT ALL COMES TOGETHER YOU HAD TO BE HERE. FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO BOOK YOUR EVENT WITH MGM RESORTS, VISIT MGMRESORTS.COMNext >