Keith Hymel, Mba, Fasae Email & Phone Number

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Proud to be a part of one of the largest and most professional and diverse full service conference management companies in the world. My goal is to serve as a thought leader and “trusted advisor” to some of our best customer partnerships; we leverage our deep expertise and hospitality industry leadership and experience to build collaborative, long term relationships. We always achieve best terms, save time, money, build compliance, mitigate risk...while always supporting customer business objectives, growth, retention, satisfaction…and experiential live, hybrid or virtual events

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Accomplished 25 year senior lodging and hospitality leader with unmatched expertise in strategic partnerships in the corporate, association (ASAE Fellow) and non-profit industry sectors. Engaged in authentic, collaborative, long term "trusted adviser" relationships by taking a consultative and collaborative approach to support growth and align teams and solutions with organizational goals and objectives.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Provided oversight and leadership responsibility for the enterprise relationship with some of Hilton Worldwide’s largest global strategic accounts ($250M); responsible for developing long term business-to-business relationships through executive engagement, delivering new innovative enterprise-wide solutions to meet customers’ business objectives, and achieving long term customer loyalty. Part of team involved with the development of Hilton Worldwide’s Strategic Account Management program which earned the 2013 Program of the Year Award from the Strategic Account Management Association (SAMA). Inaugural Circle of Excellence Winner for Hilton Worldwide Strategic Account Management (2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014)

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Provided oversight and business sponsorship for guiding Hilton's sales technology development and strategy, co-sales sponsor for group web sites with distribution and IT teams; sales liaison for customer business to business solutions, third party meeting management solutions and integration, business travel direct connects, sales data analysis and more. Provided strategic focus with national sales and the enterprise hotel sales organization to lead, develop and provide sales related business solutions, database marketing tools, regional cluster sales offices and sales systems training for our internal constituents and our Hilton Family brands. Served on joint task force teams for next generation e-Sales and small online meeting solutions. Org. changes private equity and role and teams consolidated into Sales, IT, Revenue Management and On-Line Distribution in 2006.

Dc, Chicago, Dallas,

Managed DC, Chicago and SE/SW Offices

Masters Of Business Administration, Mba

Major thesis focus on impact of future technology trends in hospitality

Bs, Hotel, Restaurant & Tourism Adm.