The Choose Chicago Meeting and Convention Sales team is the official sales arm of the city of Chicago and McCormick Place. Our team — which brings together accomplished professionals with backgrounds in hotel sales, general service contracting, convention and visitors bureaus, and more — is responsible for booking over 2.65M room nights annually into Chicagoland hotels, and 55 new group bookings into McCormick Place throughout 2019.
Meeting and Convention Sales
Darrell Baker
CASE, Vice President, Trade Shows Sales
Phone: (312) 567-8573
Email: dbaker@choosechicago.com
Market: Trade show companies, all states (for McCormick Place)
Association: DC, MD, and VA (for McCormick Place)
Julie Mullins
Vice President, Convention Sales
Phone: (312) 567-8598
Email: jmullins@choosechicago.com
Market: Manages the convention team and handles select accounts.
Dawn Young
Vice President, Hotel Sales
Phone: (312) 567-8459
Email: dyoung@choosechicago.com
Leads the sales team tasked with selling hotel opportunities.
Market: Corporate/Association
Region: Northeast
Frank Alba
National Sales Manager
Phone: (312) 567-8503
Email: falba@choosechicago.com
Market: Corporate/Association, Sports, Entertainment
Region: Southwest, West, International
Monika Babik, CMP
Director, Association Sales
Phone: (312) 567-8469
Email: mbabik@choosechicago.com
Market: Association, Diversity, Social, Religious, Fraternal
Region: Midwest
Tamara Jones
Director, Association Sales
Phone: (312) 567-8591
Email: tjones@choosechicago.com
Market: Association, all regions excluding Mid-Atlantic (for McCormick Place)
Segment: Medical, business, hobbies, hospitality, insurance, telecommunications, SMERF, sports, building, construction, public administration, safety, retail, and utilities.
Maggie Menozzi
Director, Association Sales
Phone: (312) 567-8564
Email: mmenozzi@choosechicago.com
Market: Association, all regions excluding Mid-Atlantic (for McCormick Place).
Segment: Agriculture/food/commodities, automotive/transportation, culture/fine arts/libraries, educational, manufacturing/distribution, professional trade, scientific/engineering.
Key contact for Experient (not Experient Sales Network) and SmithBucklin.
Anthony Molino
Director of Hotel Sales
Phone: (312) 567-8502
Email: amolino@choosechicago.com
Market: Corporate/Association, Government
Region: Mid-Atlantic, Southeast
Kenyetta Peterson
National Sales Manager
Phone: (312) 567-8562
Email: kpeterson@choosechicago.com
Market: Corporate
Region: Midwest
Michele Pondexter
Director, Diversity Sales
Phone: (312) 567-8497
Email: mpondexter@choosechicago.com
Market: All states, excluding DC, MD, VA – SMURF, minority, LGBTQ and government
(in-house programs, peak rooms >10).
Segment: SMERF vertical includes social/personal, military/veterans, labor union (and select universities), religious and fraternal organizations.
Lance Wheeler
Director, Business Development & Corporate Lead
Phone: (312) 567-8466
Email: lwheeler@choosechicago.com
