ISHAE expresses its gratitude to the following 2010 Strategic Partners & Conference Sponsors, without whom our professional development conferences would not be possible.

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“STR has been a partner and sponsor of ISHAE since 2004. Our involvement has allowed us to build relationships with key association leaders, and in turn has aided in our company’s growth and prosperity during good and bad economic times.”    
     Vail Brown, Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing, STR

"I just wanted to thank you so much for making the conference a great success for us. It is by far the most productive conference I went to this year for JackRabbit (and I went to about 30 of them, so that is saying quite a bit!)"    
     Andrew Van Luchene, President & CEO, JackRabbit Systems, Inc.

"We are extremely grateful for the opportunity to partner with ISHAE as a conference sponsor. The members are very supportive of sponsors and this has been a wise investment decision given the strength of the many business relationships that have been built."    
     Mark Jackson, CEO of Moreson Conferencing

Platinum Conference Sponsors

	The American Resort Development Association (ARDA) is the Washington D.C.-based professional association representing the vacation ownership and resort development industries. Established in 1969, ARDA today has nearly 1,000 corporate members ranging from privately held firms to publicly traded companies and international corporations with expertise in shared ownership interests in leisure real estate. The membership also includes timeshare owner associations (HOAs), resort management companies, and owners through the ARDA Resort Owners Coalition (ARDA-ROC).
	Heartland Payment Systems provides credit/debit/prepaid card processing, payroll, check management, restaurant management systems, and on line payment solutions to businesses nationwide.  Heartland founded The Merchant Bill of Rights, to help businesses manage the costs and complexities of card acceptance. For more information please click on www.heartlandpaymentsystems.com and www.MerchantBillOfRights.com.
	Founded in 1983, Investools Inc. offers market-leading investor education for self-directed investors. Our unique business model combines top-rated technology with comprehensive investor education, putting powerful resources in the hands of self-directed investors.  Investools is on a mission to build the best brand in educated investing. Because we believe in the power of educated investors, we're achieving that mission by providing continuous product upgrades and innovation, as well as world-class customer support, to our students.

 

Gold Conference Sponsors

	Affiniscape provides our association partners with a full range of professional services to ensure their association websites are successful. Affiniscape’s knowledgeable professionals provide invaluable experience in project management, consulting, creative design and development. Many of these services are included as part of the initial website deployment process.
	The American Hotel & Lodging Educational Foundation (AH&LEF) is the not-for-profit, charitable-giving, and fund raising affiliate of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA). For more than 50 years, the Foundation has been the primary source of financial support for industry-related scholarships and research. In recent years its mandate has expanded to include funding to launch and maintain school-to-career and workforce development initiatives in order to attract and retain more employees to our industry. Michelle Poinelli | Senior Vice President, Foundation Programs, mpoinelli@ahlef.org
	Mark Jackson, CEO and chairman of Moreson Conferencing entered the teleconference industry in 1991, and learned the business from the ground up. After five years of highly successful endeavors within the industry, Mark utilized his expertise to launch Moreson Conferencing.Under his guidance, Moreson Conferencing has grown to become one of the largest teleconferencing services in North America. Today, Moreson Conferencing has the experience and the knowledge to help our clients reach their teleconferencing needs. Since our inception, we have built a sterling reputation for listening to our customers and doing everything possible to help them meet their communication objectives. By doing so, we are known worldwide for creating superior products, while offering unsurpassed individualized personal service.  Contact Kevin@moreson.com.

Silver Conference Sponsors

	Serving the hospitality industry for nearly a century, AH&LA is the sole national association representing all sectors and stakeholders in the lodging industry, including individual hotel property members, hotel companies, student and faculty members, and industry suppliers. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., AH&LA provides members with national advocacy on Capitol Hill, public relations and image management, education, research and information, and other value-added services to provide bottom line savings and ensure a positive business climate for the lodging industry.
	The attorneys in the Hospitality Industry Practice Group at Fisher & Phillips LLP represent employers in labor and employment matters across the U.S. With headquarters in Atlanta, the firm has more than 225 attorneys in 23 offices. Since 1943, we have provided to hospitality employers efficient and practical solutions to labor and employment law problems.
	Hcareers, the leading online hospitality job board in North America, is celebrating ten years as the top recruitment source for connecting employers and candidates within the hospitality industry.Hcareers’ solid reputation for results is growing rapidly through partnerships with the most influential associations representing the hospitality industry. Hcareers is the recommended job board of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA), the National Restaurant Association (NRA), and the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservice Association (CRFA) along with many others. A subsidiary of onTargetjobs, Hcareers was founded on the belief that a hospitality-targeted job board could surpass the value that general online job boards could deliver. Since 1998, Hcareers has developed a loyal online community of hospitality industry employers and candidates.
	Smith Travel Research (STR) is the lodging industry's leading information and data provider. STR has the most comprehensive database of hotel performance information ever compiled. Whether you're a hotel owner or operator, management company, real estate consultant, appraiser, lender or an entrepreneur looking for an investment opportunity, you need reliable, objective and authoritative business intelligence. You need great data. That's what Smith Travel Research is all about.
	USA TODAY was launched as the original National Newspaper. It was first printed on September 15, 1982 with an initial circulation of 362,879. Fall 2007 Readership survey results report that USA TODAY has a daily readership of 3.9 million readers.

Bronze Conference Sponsors

	BMI is a non-profit making performing right organization that provides businesses the necessary copyright clearance to publicly perform BMI music.  As a performing right organization, BMI issues licenses to various users of music, including television and radio stations and networks; new media, nightclubs, hotels, bars, restaurants and other venues. It then tracks public performances of its members' music, and collects and distributes licensing revenues for those performances as royalties.
	Making the Net Work for You. The MultiView search engine allows association members to conduct detailed searches for individual products, parts and/or services contained within the Web sites of the companies listed in the directory. This methodology, unlike general-purpose search engines like Google™ and Yahoo!™, provides more relevant results since the Web sites contained in the search results have been pre-qualified. This means organizations are pre-screened as providing meaningful goods and services to association members
	WageWatch provides valuable compensation, salary, wage rates, pay and benefits survey data online across multiple industries and geographic markets to human resource professionals, hiring managers, and other executives at the best price. Our cost-effective online compensation and salary surveys are designed to help employers with hiring employees, employee retention, employee pay and recognition, employee benefits, budget planning, market pricing jobs and salary range decisions.