ASTA is reporting the results of its recent elections. The two-year terms of the newly elected directors will begin at the close of ASTA’s Global Convention in Miami this coming September.
Newly elected national directors-at-large, in alphabetical order:
• Jay Ellenby - Safe Harbors Business Travel Group
• Caitlin Gomez - Hickory Global Partners, LLC
• John I. Lovell, - Breton Village Travel Services, Inc.
• Laura Rodriguez-Verbera - Marina Tours And Travel Arizona LLC
• Leo Zabinski, - Classic Travel
National Directors serving the second year of their two-year terms include:
• Roger Block, - Travel Leaders Franchise Group
• Jason Coleman, - Jason Coleman, Inc.
• Jackie Friedman - Nexion
• John Lovell, - Vacation.com
The incumbent Board of Directors convenes in September to elect the new Executive Committee from the above nine directors-at-large, ASTA reports. The Executive Committee is composed of the Chairman, Vice President and Secretary, Treasurer, and ASTA’s CEO & President as an ex-officio and non-voting member. The new Board will come together for the first time in September at the ASTA Global Convention.
ASTA notes it’s governance structure calls for a Board of Directors that consists of nine national directors elected at-large for two-year, staggered terms, three chapter presidents, the chair of the International Chapter Presidents Council (ICPC), two Corporate Advisory Council (CAC) members and one NACTA member director.
At its recent meeting, the Chapter Presidents Council elected the following chapter presidents to sit on the Board: Ryan McGredy (YPS Chapter and CPC Chair), Marilyn Bell Zelaya (Northern California Chapter and Vice-Chair), and Jorge Sanchez (Midwest Chapter and ASTAPAC Chair).
For those chapters that held officer elections this year, the results are as follows:
Carolinas
President - James Buckley
Vice President – Joan Papst,
Secretary – Russell Pickett,
Treasurer – Juliet Deseo
Central Atlantic
President – Richard Schwartz,
Vice President – Heather Dolstra,
Secretary – Mary Peters,
Treasurer – Jay Ellenby
Central & North Florida
President – Jesse Mackey
Vice President – Gail Miller,
Treasurer – Allyn Ryan
Secretary – Cecilia Meacham
Delaware Valley
President – Jason Holland
Secretary - Kari Thomas
Great Lakes
President – JoAnne Verboom
Michigan Vice President – Chris Wommer
Wisconsin Vice President – Dianne Moore
Treasurer – Caroline Kowalik
Secretary – Donna Cooper
Hawaii
President – Patricia Tervola
Vice President/Secretary – Rachel Shimamoto
Treasurer – Charmaine Chan
Long Island
President – Carol McParland
Vice President – Gerald Mack
Treasurer – Debra Kalsmith-Sternberg
Secretary – Gretchen Stalb
MidAmerica
President – Claudia Darling
1st Vice President – Dan Lanser
2nd Vice President – Barbara Mazzola
Treasurer – Robert Elking
Secretary – Pamela Faust
Northern California
President – Marilyn Bell Zelaya
1st Vice President – Ryan McGredy
2nd Vice President – Paul Demers
Treasurer – Annette Weber
New England
President – Gabriel Garavanian
Secretary/Membership Chair – Theresa Strauss
Treasurer – Michael Taylor
Immediate Past President/ASTAPAC Chair – Mike Spinelli, Jr.
New York City
President – Ralph Vasami
Immediate Past President – Alice Tillem
Vice President – Barbara Colombo
Secretary – Jack Tillem
Treasurer – Lucy Penna
Boro VP Queens/Brooklyn/Staten Island – Joann Costagliola
Boro VP Manhattan – Bill McCue
Boro VP Bronx/Westchester – Barbara Jathas
Orange County
President – Betsy Geiser
1st Vice President – Betty Cox
2nd Vice President – Karl Rosen
Secretary – Paula Singleton
Treasurer – Dick De Rose
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