Our team — which brings together accomplished professionals with backgrounds in hotel sales, general service contracting, convention and visitors bureaus, and more is responsible for promoting and securing conventions and meetings at Chicago’s McCormick Place and over 150 hotel partners that will generate hotel tax revenue for the City of Chicago.
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
Markets: 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: Midwest (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: Illinois Corporate;West of Mississippi – Corporate and Association
Region: All
Matthew Guillory
Marketing Manager
Phone: O: (312) 567-8544 M: (773) 350-3303
Email: mguillory@choosechicago.com
Shavonne Harding
National Sales Manager
Phone: (202) 744-4568
Email: sharding@choosechicago.com
Market: Corporate/Association, Government
Region: Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, Southeast
Vertical: Meetings Made Easy
Tamara Jones
Senior Director, Convention and Trade Shows
Phone: (312) 567-8591
Email: tjones@choosechicago.com
Market: Association & For Profit Trade Shows (Citywide)
Region: Midwest (For McCormick Pace)
Vertical: Sports, Union, For-Profit Trade Associations
Eric Kincaid
Senior Director, Convention Sales
Phone: (312) 718-6919
Email: ekincaid@choosechicago.com
Market: Corporate & Association (Citywide)
Region: Mid-Atlantic
Samantha Mataragas
National Sales Manager
Phone: (312) 567-8484
Email: smataragas@choosechicago.com
Market: Corporate
Region: Midwest
Vertical: Meetings & Incentives Worldwide
Michele Pondexter
Director, Diversity Sales
Phone: (312) 567-8497
Email: mpondexter@choosechicago.com
Market: Diversity, Religious, Fraternal, Government, Social (Weddings & Reunions)
Region: All Regions (Exceptions include Mid-Atlantic for Government)
Vertical: Arrowhead Conference and Events, Conference Planning Resources – Naperville
Lauren Riordan
Business Development Executive
Phone: (312) 567-8544
Email: lriordan@choosechicago.com
Market: Illinois Association; East of Mississippi – Corporate and Association
Region: All
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