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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
Horace Hord
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MIAMI, Florida - Travel and tourism industry veteran Horace Hord
will receive the 2014 Caribbean Media Exchange (CMEx) Leadership Award
next month in Miami.
Organizers announced that Hord will receive
the honor at an awards presentation during the second annual Evenings of
Excellence series, sponsored by Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, on Tuesday,
October 21, 2014.
The empowering event will be held at the
Miramar Cultural Center/ArtsPark (2400 Civic Center Place, Miramar,
Florida), a venue created to celebrate creativity and diversity within
the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area.
CMEx selected Hord in
recognition of his sterling commitment to the development and promotion
of tourism in the Caribbean region. Another recipient will soon be
announced for the Miami event.
Hord, President of HCH Marketing
& Consulting Associates, also serves as Senior Vice President with
ICABA (Identify | Connect | Activate | the Black Accomplished) Media
Holdings where he develops impactful partner relationships with major
corporations that add value to ICABA in increased revenue and/or
strategic promotional value.
The award winner has the unique
distinction of having held top executive positions in the airline,
hotel, and cruise line industries.
Hord's career in the
burgeoning travel and tourism sector began with American Airlines in New
York, where he served as the Director of Marketing for the
Atlantic/Caribbean region.
Essential in launching the first
cooperative advertising campaign for the Caribbean region, Hord later
transferred to Miami, where he helped introduce air transportation to
new Caribbean destinations.
In 2000, he was recruited to serve as
President and CEO of the Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association. He
subsequently lived and worked in Aruba for more than four years.
Upon
returning to the US, Hord served as Vice President of Government and
Community Relations, Caribbean Region for Royal Caribbean, and later
Vice President of Global Community Relations where he instituted a
formal mentoring initiative to assist youths in foster care.
Born
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Hord attended Lincoln University. He is an
ordained minister and member of The Faith Center in Sunrise, Florida,
and currently serves as the secretary of the Board of Florida Memorial
University.
After Miami, the empowering Evenings of Excellence
series moves to New York on Wednesday, November 12 at the popular
Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn (12020 Flatlands Avenue, Brooklyn,
New York), one of the city's dynamic worship and spiritual growth
centers. Two additional CMEx award recipients will be honored in New
York.
Both events are free and will feature presentations by
Caribbean author, economist and motivational speaker Zhivargo Laing, who
will be joined by other community notables to deliver inspiring
messages of personal empowerment and economic prosperity.
Evenings
of Excellence is sponsored by Wells Fargo Home Mortgage and supported
by Marketplace Excellence, the Caribbean Media Exchange (CMEx), Finn
Partners, Omni Hotels and Resorts, and SENA Sales and Marketing.
To register and for further information, visit www.eveningsofexcellence.com.
Space is limited.
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