Professional experience includes Destination Marketing working for a CVB; hotel sales and marketing with a hotel marketing company; association management/meeting planning; corporate international meeting management. Founder and CEO of MeetingLink, LLC, a professional international meeting management company.My goals are: - to grow my client base and provide customized international meeting management services to corporate and association clients; - to raise awareness of the need to observe protocol guidelines when planning international meetings - and to provide training to meeting planners and students on the elements of planning and logistics that involve protocol.Specialties: International Meeting Management - Ensure a successful business experience by applying principles of protocol to meetings, being sensitive to the culture of participants and host country. Fluent in Spanish & Portuguese; understand French & Italian. Contracts; venue evaluation; logistics; international menu selection, cultural dietary restrictions; passenger management; vendor liaison/management; multi-lingual on-site managers & staff; country briefs upon request. WBE and MBE Certified.