Kaye began her career in the hospitality Industry in 1983 as the Corporate Meeting Manager for Nortel Networks. Kaye rapidly moved up the ranks to become the Director of Corporate Global Meetings and Events Department. Kaye managed over 100 meetings annually while overseeing a staff of up to thirty planners. Kaye and her team managed events ranging from 100 to 5,000 plus attendees including sales conferences, association conferences, product launches, incentive trips, hospitality events, tradeshows, and road shows. Kaye and her team were also responsible for many of the association organization conferences that were formed on behalf of Nortel products.

Through her creativity, negotiating skills and extensive knowledge of the overall meeting and event planning, she won the CEO’s Teamwork Award and Top Talent Awards, given to only 10% of the company. Kaye has managed such prestigious events as: Palm Springs International Film Festival, Master’s Golf Tournaments, PGA golf tournaments, US Open, Olympics, Kentucky Derby, Super Bowl (for three years), Indy 500 (for seven years) and Formula One racing events globally. Kaye has been instrumental in new business development with a number of Fortune 500 companies on various types of high profile events since joining ResourceOne in 2001. Kaye attended Texas Tech University and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Laura began her meeting planning career in Southern California in 1994. Working in the Sales & Marketing department for Canon USA, Inc. she managed large-scale events such as national sales meetings, kick-offs, incentive trips, dealer non-disclosures, tradeshows, trainings, celebrity golf tournaments and charity fundraisers.

After a move with her husband to Dallas, Texas, Laura joined the Texas District of Merrill Lynch. She managed approximately 40 events per year including high-end sales incentive trips, trainings, seminars, senior management road shows, and client hospitality events.

Laura joined HelmsBriscoe ResourceOne in 2003. As a Program Director, she worked with a host of clients ranging from associations to Fortune 500 corporations. Event types she managed included tradeshows, cruises, association conferences, sales kick-offs, multi-city webcasts, and incentive trips (both domestic and international). After two years of operating programs with HBR1, Laura moved into a sales role, managing all HB territories over the course of the following 5 years. She is now enjoying promoting ResourceOne as Associate Regional Vice President of Marketing & Operations. Laura holds a BA in Political Science from Biola University and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Debbie joined HelmsBriscoe in 2008 following a highly successful 33 year career with Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Florida. As the Director of Sales Events and Relationship Management with Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Florida, she gained extensive knowledge and experience in the event industry and has led teams in the development and implementation of domestic and international incentive trips, product launches, sales meetings, trade shows, executive and top producer retreats including Super Bowl, Masters, Final Four, The Players Championship at Sawgrass, etc. Debbie is known for being customer focused, creative and implementing management plans, processes, procedures and teams that excel. She believes that we are what we repeatedly do, so excellence then is not an act, but a habit.

In addition to over 20 years of event industry experience, Debbie has developed incentive compensation and reward programs, sales contests and promotional campaigns. She and her teams have consistently produced outstanding event ratings. She’ll do the same for you! Debbie is based in Jacksonville, Florida.

Corinne began her meeting planning career in 1998 with a European engineering firm, Montech LLC, planning over 20 trade shows a year as well as client entertainment/hospitality in the US, Canada and Europe as well as training and development for US based sales.

Following Montech, Corinne joined Wachovia Corporation where she was a senior meeting planner for the Corporate and Investment Bank with a focus on multi-track investor conferences, sector specific CEO Summits, client incentive travel, golf tournaments and high-end client hospitality throughout the US and Europe.

After leaving Wachovia, Corinne has been planning meetings for a wide range of clients from associations to Fortune 500 firms. She has focused on client management and meeting development for national conferences, sales incentive programs both domestic and abroad, client hospitality at sporting events as well as training and development programs for national associations. Currently, Corinne is actively selling ResourceOne services to our clients.

Corinne joined HelmsBriscoe ResourceOne in 2008. She is an active member with Site and currently serves as the 2010 President of Site Southeast. Corinne holds a BS in Marketing from Clemson University and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

JC’s sales experience began in 2001 with her Johnson & Johnson career where she received numerous awards and accolades for her success. After leaving Johnson & Johnson, JC joined Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceuticals serving as a Senior Professional Institutional Sales Person selling complex injectable products to a variety of specialists, surgeons and hospital organizations. In addition, JC served as sales trainer for Sanofi-Aventis.

JC has extensive experience with large sales meetings, trade show events and physician gatherings including logistics coordination, site selection and speaker arrangement. She has successfully launched numerous pharmaceutical products to the US market, and served as a key member of the marketing teams for two of the largest pharmaceutical organizations in the US. JC holds a BA in Marketing and Advertising from the University of Georgia and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Greg began his career in 1988 in the meeting and event industry with American Airlines and Sabre, holding various management positions from Sabre Specialist, Advertising and Sales Promotions Manager to Senior Meeting Planner. As the Senior Meeting planner, Slaight was responsible for Sabre’s Subscriber Conferences and Employee Meetings.

In 1996, Greg moved to Sprint as a Senior Event Manager. During his time at Sprint he managed large internal and customer events, sales kickoff meetings and incentive trips. Greg also managed Sprint hospitality events for Fortune 500 customers at the 1996 Summer Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics as well as the 2003 and 2005 NFL Super Bowls. Following Sprint, Slaight was named Director of Meetings and Events for Spear One where he directed a team of event managers and specialists who managed meetings for Fortune 500 companies. Greg holds a BA in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Nebraska and is based in Dallas, Texas.