GBTA’s Meetings & Events Committee is the strategic partner for the business travel community and provides guidance on the following:
• Business events best practices
• Education
• Resources
• Innovation

  • Serve as the preeminent source of knowledge, resources and strategy on the state of meetings management for the global business travel industry.
  • Develop and maintain educational materials around the fundamentals and best practices of meetings management.
  • Produce, share, and disseminate high-quality content on emerging trends in meetings management with GBTA members.

Applications to serve on a Committee are accepted year-round and open to any GBTA member. Members serve 2-year terms running from Convention to Convention. Each Committee will be in contact shortly after an application is received. Based on the application, the Committee may either conduct an interview, hold the application or decline the applicant. Committees must maintain a 51% Direct Member and 49% Allied Member ratio. Fill out the committee application form below.

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Leadership

Shalini Iyer
Chair
Director of Strategic Partnerships
hubli

Colleen Kearney
Vice Chair
Travel Manager
Fresenius Medical Care

Members

Grant Caplan
Committee Member
President
Procurigence, Inc.

Angie Duncan Callaway
Committee Member
Senior Director
Meetings & Incentives Worldwide, Inc

Flora Korman
Committee Member
VP, Global T&E and M&E
Synchrony Financial

Mary-Jo Lake, CMP, VEMM
Committee Member
Director of Global Strategic Partnerships, Meetings and Events
blueprint worldwide

Frank Manchen
Committee Member
Senior Director, Sales Optimization
Hilton

Justin Morris
Committee Member
Director of Sales
Traxo

Ryan Sokoloff
Committee Member
VP of Sales – USA
MeetingPackage

Michelle Walker
Committee Member
Events Department Manager
Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Shawnda Witterstaetter, GTP
Committee Member
Vice President, Customer Success
Cerebri AI

Greg Yap
Committee Member
Vice President, Americas
Singapore Exhibition & Convention Bureau

Europe Meetings & Events Committee

Leadership

Jennifer Pape
Chair
Global Meetings and Events
Shell

Larissa Steinbäcker
Committee Member
Co-CEO
Proske

Members

Henrietta Balint
Committee Member
Global Procurement Commodity Management
Siemens Energy

Melanie Newman
Committee Member
Meeting Services Manager
PwC

Bo Follaug
Committee Member
Global Meeting Leader
IKEA (Ingka group)

Katie Bragan-Anderton
Committee Member
Sustainability Specialist
Festive Road

Jason Long
Committee Member
SVP Global Business Development
HRS

Mathilde LeGall
Committee Member
Sales Director
Rejolt

Joanne Shaw
Committee Member
Director Global Sales
FCM

Claude Jumbert
Committee Member
Regional Director
Hilton Worldwide