Our Team | Industry

Karen leads the development and implementation of the tourism sales and servicing for all markets in order to increase Winnipeg’s economy.

Ryan is the Vice President of Sales for Economic Development Winnipeg directing all sales strategies. He also leads the YES! Winnipeg initiative to attract new business and work with local companies to facilitate their expansion, increase their market potential and grow their network.

Tiffany assists Dayna with issues management involving such aspects as scheduling, event planning, meeting management and communications-related tasks. She also serves as the primary liaison for EDW's board of directors and coordinates all board-related activities germane to the organization.

Annie is responsible for attracting sports, special events and meetings and conventions to Winnipeg through the sport federations, unions, corporations as well as the key economic sectors of Advanced Manufacturing, Aerospace and Creative Industries.

Grace is responsible for attracting meetings and conventions to Winnipeg through the Canadian association and third party meeting planner markets as well as the economic sectors of Agribusiness and Life Sciences.

Sarah is responsible for selling and promoting Winnipeg as the destination of choice for the travel trade market showcasing Winnipeg as a group and package tour destination and focusing on student/youth travel, affinity groups, tour operators, wholesalers and receptives.

Melanie is responsible for selling and promoting Winnipeg as the destination of choice for meetings and conventions. This includes attracting tourism business through local leaders with the Bring it Home program, while leveraging these business events and conferences to help showcase Winnipeg’s investment value proposition.

Brittany is responsible for research and lead generation support for the Bring it Home Program, an initiative of Economic Development Winnipeg to attract business events to our city.

Lynnea is responsible for managing client services by assisting clients in promoting their meetings, conventions, sports, special events and group tours that will be in Winnipeg in order to maximize attendance and elevate customer satisfaction.

Jen is responsible for the Team Winnipeg and Winnipeg Tour Connection partnerships and initiatives. She provides project-specific support to the meetings and conventions and travel trade teams and Tourism Winnipeg's industry events.

Sarah is responsible for visitor services, travel information outreach, frontline training, familiarization tours and social media activities that contribute to enhancing visitor experiences.

Tyler is responsible for curating and creating digital and video content to promote and tell the Winnipeg story.

Eleanor manages the corporate communications activities specific to EDW. She executes a broad spectrum of deliverables based on strategic marketing & communications plans that span both digital and print formats. Eleanor also serves as the primary point of contact for all EDW-related media and advertising inquiries.

Mike is responsible for development and execution of Tourism Winnipeg's social media plan. He is also responsible for all creative online and offline writing for various marketing mediums.

Kelly is responsible for managing the content of the Tourism Winnipeg publications and website, approving all partner entries in Simpleview, compiling earned media, responding to image requests and managing the internal image gallery and photo contest.

Maddy is responsible for creating and distributing digital content across all platforms. Maddy also facilitates the distribution of the e-newsletters, blogs and industry communications.