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Ms. Gordon is responsible for external affairs as well as administrative functions for the Americas region including: corporate services; community affairs; government relations; meetings/special events; and business continuity planning.
She joined InterContinental Hotels Group in 1989 as regional director of field marketing. Since then she has held positions of increasing responsibility within the company, including leadership roles in consumer marketing, new product development, brand management and environmental programs.
She is the chair of the board of the Southeast Chapter for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF; immediate past chair of the National Hotel Alliance; an Ex-Officio member of the Georgia Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities; and a member of several other boards, including Literacy Action and the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau.
A 2004 graduate of Leadership Atlanta, she has been named one of Twenty Women Who Make a Difference by Minorities and Women in Business magazine and one of the Most Powerful Women in Travel by Travel Agent magazine. In 2005, she led IHG’s global tsunami relief efforts; and was recognized by the Australia-New Zealand-America Chamber of Commerce for her humanitarian work. She also created and has been the driving force behind the innovative and unique Designs of Hope fundraiser, with monies raised directed to UNICEF to benefit orphans and children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. Since its inception in 2002, Designs of Hope has raised more than $2 million for UNICEF.
She is a founding member of the Women In Lodging committee of the American Hotel & Lodging Association and currently serves as Vice-Chair of the committee. | 