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from the mid to late 1990s, Cloutier-Sabo
has more than a decade of hotel sales
experience and will be in charge of securing events and meetings business for
Madison.
Your Future, a three-book financial literacy
series that teaches young people about
banking, financing and investing. The
Actuarial Foundation and Building Your
Future were featured in the September
2010 issue of FORUM.
services clients including the American
Society of Golf Course Architects,
International Society of Arboriculture and
Spectrum Communications.
Karyn Haney has been
named sales manager
at the Doubletree Hotel
Chicago Magnificent Mile.
Most recently senior sales
manager for the corporate
travel market at the Doubletree Hotel &
Conference Center in Skokie, Ill., Haney
will be in charge of managing all associa-
tion and government group business at
the downtown Chicago hotel.
The Hematology Oncology Pharmacy
Association, previously based in
Princeton, N.J., has selected Glenview,
Ill.-based Association Management
Center as its full-service association
management company, and has therefore
relocated its association headquarters
to Glenview. AMC’s Karen Nason, CAE,
will serve as executive director of HOPA,
which was founded in 2004
The Grand Traverse Resort
& Spa near Traverse City,
Mich., has promoted Taryn
Miracle, its national sales
manager since 2007, to
associate director of sales.
As head of a three-person executive meeting management team, Miracle, who
joined Grand Traverse in 2003, will represent the resort to meeting planners in
corporate, association and SMERF markets nationwide, including Chicago.
Marilyn Mages, CAE,
is now senior consul-
tant with the Avenue M
Group. Mages has more
than 13 years of experi-
ence in the association
industry, including positions at the
Academy of General Dentistry, American
College of Healthcare Executives and the
Independent Cosmetic Manufacturers and
Distributors. She specializes in market
research, strategy and execution of mar-
keting campaigns.
Tiffany
Backus has
joined VISIT
Milwaukee
as its
Washington,
D.C.-based sales manager. Backus brings
more than a decade of hotel sales experi-
ence to the position, most recently work-
ing as senior sales manager for Hiltons
of Washington. In other news, Wisconsin
Gov. Jim Doyle has appointed Paul
Upchurch, president and CEO of VISIT
Milwaukee, to the Governor's Council on
Tourism. The Council on Tourism consists
of 20 members representing the diver-
sity of Wisconsin's tourism industry. The
board advises the Department of Tourism
on how to best promote Wisconsin's
various attractions and grow the state's
economy.
Backus Upchurch
News and Awards
Calibre CPA Group, a Chicago- and
Washington, D.C.-based accounting firm
that specializes in associations and nonprofits, has announced a merger with
Roche & Associates, a Washington, D.C.-based company that provides outsourced
financial management services to organizations that need a CFO, controller or
accounting department. The combined
firms will practice as Calibre CPA Group.
Aileen Smith, CAE, has been pro-
moted to account supervisor with The
Ritterbusch Group, a marketing firm
based in Brookfield, Wis. Smith joined
The Ritterbusch Group in June 2004. She
The Sacramento Convention
& Visitors Bureau has hired
Sarah Atilano as senior
convention sales manager
for the California state
association market. She
most recently was director of sales and
marketing with Embassy Suites San
Francisco Airport Burlingame.
The Actuarial Foundation in
Schaumburg, Ill., has been honored
with a 2010 Excellence in Financial
Literacy Education (EIFLE) Award from
the Institute for Financial Literacy. The
organization was recognized for Building
