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About Visit Baltimore

Mission Statement: The official sales and marketing organization for Baltimore that generates economic benefits for stakeholders through the attraction of convention, group and leisure visitors.

Visit Baltimore is the official destination development and marketing organization for the Greater Baltimore region. Established in 1982, we are a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit corporation.

Visit Baltimore serves as the liaison between customers and stakeholders. Customers include meeting planners, tour operators, individual tourists and media. Stakeholders include government, citizens and member organizations. Member organizations represented include lodging, dining, arts, attractions, shopping, transportation, associations and government agencies.

Visit Baltimore helps generate economic benefits to the Greater Baltimore region through the power of collaboration and partnership.

Visit Baltimore inspires people to visit our great destination to experience the products and services offered by our stakeholders.

Visit Baltimore provides stakeholders with the necessary tools and information to make their products and services competitive in the marketplace.

Our vision is for all stakeholders and citizens of Greater Baltimore to support the local tourism industry because they understand how the economic benefits generated - jobs and taxes - improve their quality of life.

Visit Baltimore Executive Staff:

Tom Noonan
President & CEO

Sam Rogers 
Executive Vice President & CMO

Nancy Hinds
Vice President of Public Affairs

 

Amy Calvert
Vice President of Sales and Services

Jeff Hungate
Chief Operating Officer

Bon Whiting
Vice President of Membership and Development

 

Directors of the 2009-2010 Baltimore Convention & Tourism Board:

Edwin F. Hale, Sr. Chairman
Chairman / CEO
1st Mariner Bank

Carolyn Blakeney
Assistant Deputy Mayor
City of Baltimore

Jim Britton
Owner
Class Act Catering

Edie Brown
President
Edie Brown & Associates, Inc.

Javier Bustamante
Board Member
Baltimore Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

Woody Collins
Executive VP of M&T Bank
President and COO of Mid-Atlantic
Region of M&T Bank

Mary Ann Cricchio
Owner
Da Mimmo’s Italian Restaurant 
of
Little Italy

Peggy Daidakis
Executive Director
Baltimore Convention Center

Edward Dopkin
Vice President for Finance
The Classic Catering People

LaRian Finney
CEO
Visionary Marketing Group

Vanessa Finney
Executive Vice President
Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show, Inc.

Kirby Fowler
President
Downtown Partnership of Baltimore

Donald Fry
President
Greater Baltimore Committee

 

 

Edward Gallagher
Finance Director
Office of the Mayor

Bill Gilmore
Executive Director
Baltimore Office of Promotions & The Arts

Paul Hartgen
President and CEO
Restaurant Association of Maryland

Michael Haynie
Vice President and Managing Director
Tremont Suites Hotels

Roxie Herbekian
Vice President
Unite Here Mid-Atlantic Region

Peter Komar, CHA
General Manager
Holiday Inn Inner Harbor Hotel

Jon Koscher
General Manager
Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel

Carla Nelson
Director
Mayor’s Office of Minority and
Women-Owned Business Development

Tom Noonan
President and CEO
BACVA

Linda Norman
General Manager
Hilton Baltimore Convention Center Hotel

David Pittenger
Executive Director
National Aquarium

Fred Puddester
Senior Associate Dean of Finance
and Administration
Kreiger School of Arts and Sciences at 
Johns Hopkins University

 

Frances Reaves
Assistant Secretary of Marketing and
Business Development
Department of Business and
Economic Development

Frank Remesch
General Manager
1st Mariner Arena

Ed Rudzinski
General Manager
Marriott Waterfront Hotel

Gail E. Smith-Howard
General Manager
Hyatt Regency Baltimore

Dennis Sullivan
General Manager
Freeman Decorating Company

David Taft Terry, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of
Maryland African American
History & Culture

Chuck G. Tildon, III
Vice President of Marketing
and Communications
United Way of Central Maryland

Sergio Vitale
Owner
Aldo’s Italian Restaurant

Mark Wasserman
Senior Vice President, External Affairs
University of Maryland Medical Systems

William Donald Schaefer
Emeritus



 

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