October 9th, 2024, 10:00 am PT / Category: Interviews
From conferences to weddings, how can event planners make smarter, faster decisions?
Podcast
Jason Bond
Jason Bond is the Executive Vice President of Enterprise Event Solutions at Prestige Global Meeting Source. With over 25 years of experience in the event agency industry, Jason has consistently been at the forefront of founding, growing, and leading event agencies. His passion lies in delivering client-focused, value-driven solutions to a global clientele.
At Prestige, Jason oversees comprehensive Enterprise Event Solutions for Meetings & Events (M&E) clients. His team works closely with clients to identify opportunities for business improvement and growth within their event operations. They provide value by delivering insights, conducting analysis, and offering tailored solutions that help enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of clients’ event-related businesses.
The services provided by Jason’s team include centralized enterprise hotel and event vendor sourcing programs, logistics planning and management, event technology solutions such as housing/registration systems, mobile apps, and virtual/hybrid event technology. They also handle group air travel, provide customized reporting, offer full-service housing and registration management, and design and implement enterprise event onboarding and integration plans. Additionally, the team provides consulting on preferred supplier programs, creative services, and experience design tailored to each client’s needs.
Tim Flors
With a highly successful career in the hospitality industry that spans over two decades, Tim Flors has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer for Groups360 for over 10 years, since it was founded in 2014. In this critical leadership role, he is responsible for overseeing all sales and customer-facing operations for the company, including its proprietary GroupSync online marketplace that empowers both planners and hoteliers to make more precise decisions and reduce inefficiencies in group transactions. Designed to simplify and transform the way meetings are booked, the solution uses proprietary matching algorithms to save meeting planners time and money in sourcing hotel venues for group events.
Before joining Groups360, Flors served as a Global Account Executive at Marriott International. Prior to that, he spent over seven years with Gaylord Hotels, most recently as Director of National Sales.
During his tenure there, he held several sales leadership positions at Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center near Orlando, including Executive Sales Manager and later National Sales Manager. Previous roles included Sales Manager at Radisson Hotel Opryland and Regional Sales Director for Baymont Inn & Suites, when he began his career.
Flors holds a degree in Hospitality Management from the University of Florida, as well as dual MBAs from Cornell University and Queens University.
