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Nominations Open for HSMAI 2020 Top 25 and Lifetime Achievement Honors
HSMAI | October 21, 2020
The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association (HSMAI) Americas is now accepting nominations for its Lifetime Achievement and Top 25 Extraordinary Minds in Sales, Marketing, and Revenue Optimization honors. HSMAI will recognize honorees during the HSMAI Adrian Awards Dinner in conjunction with the HSMAI Marketing Strategy Conference and other HSMAI Marketing Week events in 2021. Nominations are open until December 1, 2020. HSMAI Lifetime Achievement Awards HSMAI’s Albert E. Koehl Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hospitality Marketing and Winthrop W. Grice Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hospitality Public Relations recognize hos...
Hilton and Cornell’s Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship Bring Student Innovators Together for On-Campus Hackathon
The Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship | December 13, 2019
Students Challenged to “Revolutionize the Customer Journey” – with the Hotel Industry Emerging the Big Winner Hilton and the Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship (PIHE) at Cornell University’s School of Hospitality Administration (SHA) joined forces to bring students from across the University together for a two-day Hackathon on the Cornell campus in Ithaca. The Hackathon focused students on creating personalized digital customer journeys to deliver world-class, differentiated experiences. Among the students that competed at the event, more than 40% were “hotelies,” students at the indus...
HSMAI Awards Bjorn Hanson and Lee Pillsbury With Lifetime Achievement Honors
HSMAI | November 19, 2019
The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association (HSMAI) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 HSMAI Lifetime Achievement Awards in marketing and public relations. Bjorn Hanson, Ph.D., will be honored with the Winthrop W. Grice Award for Public Relations. Leland “Lee” Pillsbury, managing director of Thayer Ventures, will be recognized as the recipient of the Albert E. Koehl Award for Hospitality Marketing. HSMAI will celebrate Bjorn and Lee at the Adrian Awards Dinner Reception and Gala on January 21, 2020, at the New York Marriott Marquis. The HSMAI Lifetime Achievement Awards recognize individuals who have spent a maj...
Thayer Ventures Announces Leland Pillsbury as Managing Director, Launches Its Third Fund Targeting Innovation in Travel Technology
Thayer Ventures | January 11, 2017
San Francisco, January 11, 2017 – Thayer Ventures, the only venture capital firm focused specifically on innovation in travel technology, announced the appointment of Leland "Lee" Pillsbury as Managing Director, and launched its third investment fund, targeted to raise $100 million to invest in disruptive companies in the $10 trillion global travel and hospitality industry. Pillsbury is co-founder and co-chairman of Thayer Lodging Group, a Brookfield Company; founder of the Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship at the Cornell School of Hospitality Administration; Chairman of the Board of Interstate Hotels and founde...
Hospitality Entrepreneur and Leader, Leland Pillsbury Joins Social Tables’ Board of Advisors
Social Tables | January 19, 2016
Washington, D.C. (January 19, 2015) - Social Tables (www.socialtables.com), the award-winning, collaborative meeting and event software provider, has announced that industry veteran Leland Pillsbury has joined its Board of Advisors. In this role, the Founder and Chairman of Thayer Lodging Group will help guide the company's business strategy in the hospitality marketplace. "We are thrilled to welcome Lee to the Social Tables family," said Dan Berger, chief executive officer of Social Tables. "He is one of the most formidable individuals in the industry, and we look forward to learning from his invaluable expertise to help shape our comp...
HELP Conference 2015 Announces John Fish and Lee Pillsbury as Keynote Speakers
Hotel Equity & Lender Perspectives (HELP) Conference | January 20, 2015
Fourth Annual Event Scheduled for April 13-14, 2015 BOSTON, January 20, 2015 - Officials of the Hotel Equity & Lender Perspectives (HELP) Conference today announced that it has secured John Fish, longtime chairman and CEO of Suffolk Construction Company, one of the largest construction companies in the United States, and leader of the effort to bring the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics back to the United States via Boston, as its keynote speaker to kick off the conference. The event will be held at the Seaport Hotel, April 13-14, 2015. The conference theme is "Making Waves," and each speaker and/or panel will address certain issues th...
