SITE appoints new board members

An international event association has appointed its first Asian board member. Rajeev Kohli, CIS, joint managing director, Creative Travel Pvt Ltd, in New Delhi, India, has joined the board of the Society of Incentive Travel Executives (SITE). Serving with Kohli as officers and returning directors are: Immediate Past President: Rhonda Brewer, CIS, Vice President, Sales, Maritz Travel Company, Fenton, Missouri, USA President-Elect: Aoife Delaney, CIS, Director of Global Sales, Ovation Global DMC, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland Vice-President, Business Development: Philip Eidsvold, CIS, Account Director, AIMIA, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Vice-President, Finance: Annamaria Ruffini, CIS, CMP, President and CEO, Events In & Out S.R.L., Rome, Italy Member-at-Large: Julia Trejo, CIS, CMP, Director of Special Projects, Terramar Destinations, Panama City, Panama Jacqueline Goldy, CIS, Vice President- Incentive Sales, MGM Resorts International, Englewood, CO USA Daryl Keywood, CIS, Managing Director and CEO, Walthers DMC, Douglasdale, GT, South Africa Olga Navarro, CIS, Executive Director, ITB DMC, Barcelona, Spain Jonathan Richards, CIS, Sales Manager – North America & Europe, Corporate Gifts Division, Maui Jim Sunglasses & Zeal Optics, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA Alicia Yao, CIS General Manager, IME Consulting Co., Ltd., Beijing, China New directors on the board are: Jennifer Glynn, CIS Managing Partner, Meeting Encore Ltd., Port Hope, Ontario, Canada Eda Ozden, Director, Business Development, MEP Destination Business Solutions, Istanbul, Turkey Rajeev Kohli said: “I am honored and humbled to serve with a board comprised of such a strong and diverse group of global incentive travel leaders. I look forward to working closely with board members and chapter leaders around the world to build on the progress achieved in 2015 to grow SITE’s membership and strengthen the incentive travel industry worldwide.”