KANSAS CITY, Mo.- The Kansas City Convention & Visitors Association (KCCVA) is pleased to announce the recent addition of Loran Sandman as convention sales business development manager. Bringing with her more than six years of experience in marketing and convention sales, Loran will be responsible for the development and growth of new convention business leads.
"We are thrilled to have Loran join our team," said KCCVA Vice President of Convention Sales John Heeney. "The lifeblood of any business is new business, and we believe having Loran serve in this new role will accelerate our progress to grow new convention business for Kansas City."
A graduate of DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., Loran comes to the KCCVA from LivingSocial, an online marketplace, where she served as a senior marketing consultant. Prior to that, she worked as a meeting sales manager for the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association and for Accu-chek/Roche Diagnostics, a world leader in healthcare strategy and in-vitro diagnostics.
About the Kansas City Convention & Visitors Association
The KCCVA is a non-profit organization whose mission is to ignite global passion for visiting Kansas City. Through marketing, sales and service for convention and tourism industries, the KCCVA supports a vital and growing component of the local economy-generating 45,000 jobs and $4.5 billion annually. For more information about Kansas City, go to VisitKC.com.
