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VISIT Milwaukee Named New Senior VP Sales

By M+E Staff

Effective Sept. 8, Marco Bloemendaal will join VISIT Milwaukee as the vice president of sales. Bloemendaal is currently senior vice president of convention sales and services for VISIT Seattle. He also spent five years as director of convention sales at Experience Columbus and four years as senior national sales executive at the Orlando/Orange County Convention and Visitors Bureau.

“Marco Bloemendaal’s extensive sales leadership experience in hotels, major meetings and leisure destinations and secondary markets will be very helpful to our efforts to sell Milwaukee in today’s competitive market,” said Paul Upchurch, President & CEO of VISIT Milwaukee. “We are excited to welcome Marco to Milwaukee.”

A native of the Netherlands, Marco spent eight years and gained experience in both hotel operations and sales in Amsterdam. This included two years as director of international sales, North America for more than 60 hotel properties in Europe, where his major accounts were located in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Atlanta.

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