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About Danny Hudson, President, The Duck LLC: - Danny has a global background in sales, marketing, and technology innovation for the Hotel, Travel and Tourism Industry. As President of The Duck, LLC Danny serves the industry with a Business Strategy, Marketing and Technology firm for hotel companies and hotel technology companies that want to lead their competition. Danny has worked for Starwood Hotels and Resorts, ITT Sheraton and Hilton International both domestically and abroad. He has lead acquisition and integration efforts for several software products and companies, built product and company strategic plans and guided branding efforts for a series of industry leading products. He has been responsible for the strategic technology direction for a leading hotel company, led the global deployment of integrated PMS technology across over 600 full service hotels and he has led efforts to bring several innovative products to the industry using wireless technologies and online learning. Most recently, Danny held the responsibility of VP of Sales and Marketing for Newmarket International Inc, the industry's worldwide leader in groups, sales and meetings technology. He has over 19 years experience working in the global hospitality industry and has lived in Australia, Japan and the United States.

About The Duck LLC - The Duck LLC is a business strategy, marketing, and technology firm for hotel companies and technology companies that specialize in the travel and tourism industry. The company has a flexible business model, which brings together best-of-class project-focused teams; 19 years of corporate strategy expertise; and a rich network of professionals seasoned in a wide variety of disciplines. The Duck LLC is committed to helping clients become long-term smart as they evolve new products and business directions to protect their future profitability. For more information contact Danny Hudson at (203) 894 8651, Dhudson@theduckllc.com or visit www.theduckllc.com. Lead, don't follow.

About the ONHTEC Exhibition - ONHTEC®, a co-production by Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals® and Hsyndicate, aims to become the most comprehensive and trendsetting online conference & showcase of hospitality IT & distribution technology available on the web. Starting from October 2002, ONHTEC ® will provide quarterly scheduled online conferences geared around pertinent trends in hospitality technology. ONHTEC ® aims to provide knowledge & know-how to industry professionals at all levels of expertise. For more information about the conference, please go to the ONHTEC web site at www.onhtec.com. For more information about the exposition, please contact Lance Peterson at Lance.Peterson@hftp.org or (512) 249-5333 x20.

Kevin Heilbronner is the US Editor for wiredhotelier.com and hospitalitynet.org, providing streaming multimedia-content for these websites. Based outside of Washington DC, Heilbronner has worked with Hsyndicate to conduct interviews at several hospitality trade shows in the US and Europe over the last couple of years. His column and content are featured in the Hospitality Net weekly newsletter. A familiar voice in Washington, DC, Heilbronner is the stadium announcer for the NBA's Washington Wizards, WNBA's Washington Mystics and WUSA's Washington Freedom. He resides in Centreville, VA and can be reached via email: Kevin@hsyndicate.com.

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From hotel properties to students, we have a membership for you!