Meet our friendly and helpful staff who can help assess your needs, assist with planning your event and give you all the details on why Winnipeg is the perfect spot to host your meeting or convention.
Meetings Winnipeg
Frances Wellink
Director of Business Development, Tourism
1 204 954 0777
Sectors of Focus: Government, Indigenous, and DEI
In addition to the above sectors, Frances is responsible for overseeing the Business Development Managers, in order to optimize overnight visitations across all markets. Her goal is to lead her team in showcasing that Winnipeg is the ideal city to host meetings and conventions.
Lynnea Adrian (DES)
Business Development Manager
1 204 954 1992
Sectors of focus: Life Sciences, Education, Transportation & Distribution
Lynnea is responsible for attracting business events to Winnipeg through national and international associations and third party meeting planners.
Maria Paletta
Business Development Manager
1 204 954 1981
Sectors of focus: Agri-Business, Financial Services, and Energy & the Environment.
Maria is responsible for attracting business events to Winnipeg through national and international associations and third party meeting planners.
Crystal Seman
Business Development Manager
1 204 954 1989
Crystal is responsible for attracting sports and special events and meetings and conventions to Winnipeg through the sport federations, event rights holders and provincial sports organizations as well as the Creative Industries sector.
Brittany Fox
Project Manager
1 204 954 1967
Brittany is responsible for managing the marketing and sales consortium of Team Winnipeg, and broader tourism stakeholders’ programs and initiatives.
Emma Novak
Client Services Coordinator
Emma is responsible for 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.
Kassandra Russo
Event & Project Coordinator
1 204 954 1996
Kassandra supports the Tourism Winnipeg team and is responsible for administrative functions, maximizing sales activities, partner engagement and assisting with events that contribute to increasing the visitor economy.
Ashley Volpi
Sales Administrator
1 204 954 1991
Ashley is responsible for managing the customer relations management system as well as supporting the sales activities of the Business Development Managers and expediting the bids and proposals in order to attract meetings, conventions, sports and special events to Winnipeg.
