Maile Gesling Walsh, Cmp Email & Phone Number

Northern Virginia

I deliver remarkable meetings and events that leave each attendee feeling inspired, valued, and invested. I can take the lead or provide support on all aspects of the program lifecycle from sourcing through the post-event survey.

Herndon, Va

- Directed the operations and strategy of the global events and hospitality team. - Developed and led the integrated marketing plans for large-scale conferences, tradeshows, corporate meetings, and special events. - Designed and managed all aspects of company-wide incentive trip.- Managed all elements of event planning, including financial operations, promotions, client interaction, lead generation efforts and onsite execution.- Managed corporate ticket assets, including selection and distribution process, and plans for hosted client events.- Established, monitored, tracked and reconciled multi-million dollar budgets.

Herndon, Va

- Oversaw planning and execution of large scale tradeshows, conferences, corporate meetings, incentive trips, and special events- Negotiated all necessary vendor contracts with service providers and suppliers, such as hotels, convention centers, exhibit houses, transportation companies, entertainers and speakers- Managed all onsite logistics and event staff activities at corporate events - Conducted post-event evaluations and compile results analyses in order to document success of programs

Herndon, Va

- Planned, managed and executed all aspects of internal events, including customer conferences, annual worldwide sales kick-off meeting, senior leadership conferences, and all hands meetings- Planned and executed C-level customer events, including an executive symposium, held in conjunction with annual national users’ conference- Played key role in planning and promotion of annual company-wide incentive trip- Provided logistic support and budget oversight for international programs in Australia and the UK

- Developed and executed all events for third party distribution channel, including national sales kick-off meetings, incentive programs and roundtable discussions, with annual budget of more than $10M- Worked with executives to determine program goals and strategy- Responsible for the management of content, logistics, production, entertainment, registration, and budget - Managed ongoing direction and communication with corporate events team to ensure strategy and direction of channel’s events

- Responsible for in-house event operations and on-site logistics including site selection/inspection, vendor negotiations, attendee registration, meal functions, meeting room set-ups, activities, speakers, entertainment, transportation, audio-visual requirements, gifts and give-aways, and billing- Partnered with external messaging/production vendor to ensure meeting content was delivered in a creative, impactful way - Engaged and managed a full-service logistics provider to guarantee exceptional attendee care- Managed event/meeting core team responsible for executing event