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People Making News continued from page 17 s Joseph Heinl has joined Scottsdales’ Hotel Valley Ho as director of group sales for its corporate meetings and incentives sales division. Heinl joins Hotel Valley Ho with more than a decade of hospitality and sales experience, ranging from positions as senior account executive at the Camelback Inn (a JW Marriott Resort & Spa also in Scottsdale) to sales manager at the Scottsdale Convention & Visitors Bureau. He is a member of the Fiesta Bowl Media Volunteer Committee, Meeting Professionals International, Hotel Sales & Marketing Association International, and Fraternity Executives Association. s Visit Milwaukee announced in July that Brent A. Foerster will be joining the organization as vice president of sales and marketing. In that position, he will oversee the marketing and convention sales and services functions of the city’s tourism marketing arm. Foerster has 20 years of experience in the tourism and hospitality industries, most recently serving as GM of the Hilton New Orleans Airport. He has worked the majority of his career in Minneapolis, where he spent almost 15 years holding top operations, marketing, and sales posts at the Minneapolis Hilton. s Dolce International has promoted Paul C. van Wijk to senior vice president of operations for North America. Van Wijk most recently served as the opening managing director of Dolce La Hulpe— billed as Belgium’s first hotel, resort, and conference property—where he successfully led the property to company-wide prominence as Meeting Professionals International’s Belgian Venue of the Year in 2007. Van Wijk received an economics degree from the University of Louvain in Belgium and has continued extensive coursework at Cornell University in Amsterdam, Holland, and the Graduate School of Business in Cape Town, South Africa. s Bryan Waltz is now the director of incentive and Midwest sales for the Grand Wailea Resort Hotel & Spa, a Waldorf=Astoria Collection hotel in Maui. Waltz brings with him 18 years of sales experience, having worked with hotel companies in North America and internationally. Most recently, Waltz served as the regional director of sales for Spanish hotelier Grupo Posadas’ Fiesta Americana brand, where he ranked third in revenue sales for Mexico and Latin America. Prior to his stint at Grupo Posadas, he served as a meeting planner for event management company Dynamic Events, based in Redmond, WA, with an office in Vancouver. r Who’s the man? Dan. The meeting was a huge success. So was Dan. He promised high-style in a small city when he brought the meeting to Norfolk, Virginia. Now Dan’s “The Man.” And everyone knows it. Dan Jackson MEETING PLANNER Contact the NCVB today and start planning your next meeting. 1-800-368-3097 • www.norfolkcvb.com 18 MeetingNews August 11, 2008 www.meetingnews.com http://www.norfolkcvb.com http://www.norfolkcvb.com http://www.meetingnews.com

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