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Board Members > Joel Carver
Joel Carver
Joel Carver
Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing
Vizergy
4237 Salisbury Road North, Suit 205
Jacksonville, FL 32216
Phone: (904) 389-1130 x177
Fax: (904) 389-6439
Email: jcarver@vizergy.com
Web Site: www.vizergy.com
Joel Carver serves as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for VIZERGY formerly SECURE-RES where he is responsible for all areas of sales, marketing, and public relations. With over 23 years of sales management experience in both franchise and fortune 500 companies with a focus in hospitality including: Westin, Hilton, Omni, Wyndam Hotel Group, Marriott and InterContinental Hotels Group; he has managed sales teams as large as 75 people and designed and implemented a rebranding, national direct sales campaign, and is well known for his powerful and motivational speaking ability.
Carver has honed a unique skill for sales and marketing and is recognized by his peers as a strategic and dynamic leader; naming him one of HSMAI’s "Top 25 Most Extraordinary Minds in Sales & Marketing" for 2007.
While serving the hospitality industry in a number of key leadership roles, Joel also found time to sit on the Board of Directors for Virginia Hospitality and Tourism Association; as well as maintain the positions of President for the Northern Virginia Chapter, and as Co-Chair of the Association Marketing Committee. He has served on the Partner Council for EMC Venues, and the hotel committee for the National Defense Transportation Association. Additional key relationships include: National Business Travel Association, Virginia Tourism Corporation, the International Association of Conference Centers (IACC) and the Potomac Executives Network.
Joel served B. F. Saul Company - Hotel Division as AVP-Sales and Marketing with division wide responsibility for the strategic development and coordination of marketing and promotional programs, collateral production, public relations development and management, sales and catering training, as well as, sales skills development. In addition, he was tasked with providing direct sales effort support by property visits, open position recruitment and development, leadership in the trade show effort, key relationship development; and support to General Managers, Regional Operations and Sales teams. During his tenure, many new programs were developed, including an In-House Public Relations Agency, On-Line Marketing Calendars, On-Line RPF‘s, E-Mail Marketing Campaigns, and the development of multiple proprietary websites, designed to increase traffic and visibility to hotels and conference centers, and through partnership marketing opportunities.
Prior to joining B. F. Saul Company, Joel served Wyndham Hotel Group (previously Cendant Corporation) for six years in areas of increasing responsibility. During this time, he was instrumental in developing the revenue enhancement program superSOAR, now the model for over 6,000 Wyndham Hotel Group branded hotels and motels and inns worldwide. He is the co-author of two hotel sales and marketing texts, developed and utilized by Cendant (now Wyndham Hotel Group) Hotel Division, Marketing For the Year 2000, TODAY! and Marketing For The Next Millennium. A dynamic educator and public speaker, Joel has traveled over 200,000 miles per year as a speaker and educator on these subjects.
Joel holds a Bachelor Of Science Degree in Hotel and Restaurant Administration, and as participated as Adjunct Professor and the Visiting Professor Program at the University of Houston, Prince Georges College, and Northern Virginia Community College.
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