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
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: All Regions
Frank Alba
National Sales Manager
Phone: (312) 567-8503
Email: falba@choosechicago.com
Market: Corporate/Association, Sports, Entertainment
Region: Southwest, West, International
Vertical: HPN Global
Monika Babik, CMP
Director, Association Sales
Phone: (312) 567-8469
Email: mbabik@choosechicago.com
Market: Association
Region: Midwest
Vertical: Association Management Center, SmithBucklin
Lacey Cook
Director Association Sales
Phone: (312) 567-8564
Email: lcook@choosechicago.com
Market: Association (Citywide)
Region: All Regions excluding Mid-Atlantic (For McCormick Pace)
Vertical: Agricultural/Food/Commodities, Educational, Manufacturing/Distribution, Professional Trade, Scientific/Engineering
Mackenzie Frame
Business Development Executive
Phone: (219) 743-5947
Email: mframe@choosechicago.com
Market: Corporate
Region: All Regions
Matthew Guillory
Marketing Manager
Phone: O: (312) 567-8544 M: (773) 350-3303
Email: mguillory@choosechicago.com
Tamara Jones
Senior Director, Convention and Trade Shows
Phone: (312) 567-8591
Email: tjones@choosechicago.com
Market: Association & For Profit Trade Shows (Citywide)
Region: All Regions
Vertical: Medical Association, SMERF, Sports, Union, For-Profit Trade Associations
Eric Kincaid
Senior Director, Convention Sales
Phone: (312) 718-6919
Email: ekincaid@choosechicago.com
Market: Association and Corporate
Region: Mid-Atlantic
Samantha Mataragas
National Sales Manager
Phone: (312) 567-8484
Email: smataragas@choosechicago.com
Market: Corporate
Region: Midwest
Vertical: McDonald’s, Meetings & Incentives
Michele Pondexter
Director, Diversity Sales
Phone: (312) 567-8497
Email: mpondexter@choosechicago.com
Market: Diversity, Social (Weddings & Reunions), Religious, Fraternal, Government, Union
Region: All Regions (excluding Mid-Atlantics for Government & Unions)
Vertical: Arrowhead COnference and Events, Conference Planning Resources – Naperville
Anthony Molino
Director of Hotel Sales
Phone: (312) 567-8502
Email: amolino@choosechicago.com
Market: Corporate/Association, Government, Mid-Atlantic < 3,001 peak (Convention), Southeast/Northeast Region: Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, Southeast Vertical: Meetings Made Easy
Kenyetta Peterson
Director, Business Development
Phone: (312) 567-8562
Email: kpeterson@choosechicago.com
Market: Corporate (Citywide)
Region: All Regions
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