Jennifer Dahlen
Jennifer Dahlen is highly respected across the country as a results driven executive in the hospitality industry, specializing in catering and event sales, including expert knowledge and experience in food and beverage operations, event planning, marketing, business development, negotiation, and vendor relations.
She has worked alongside such notable organizations as the Seattle Seahawks, The Monterey Bay Aquarium, the prestigious Washington Athletic Club, the Seattle Sounders, the Las Vegas Convention Center, the Mountain Winery and the Olympics. Her expertise includes business development, client retention, marketing strategy, and lead generation, as well as providing creative solutions to challenging situations.
One of Jennifer's greatest strengths is her innate ability to connect with people, and gain the trust needed to move forward with a project. She holds herself to the highest standards of excellence in business practices, fiscal accountability, and customer relations. These strengths have helped foster longstanding partnerships with a roster of clients that span an array of Industries. Jennifer's thoughtfulness and insight when working with a client has led to her highly successful close rate. She has a fantastic ability to cultivate new business opportunities and ventures.
Her operations experience contributed to the success of the ARAMARK "Mission One" manager's conference (2000pp), the 20,000 person Amazon family picnic, and the Delta Sigma Theta conference, which included a plated dinner for 12,000 women. Jennifer has had extensive oversight of catering sales and operations for trade shows such as the Consumer Electronic Show (CES), International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), Men's Apparel Guild in California (MAGIC), McDonalds Worldwide, and National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) She has managed game day food and beverage operations for the Seattle Seahawks and Seattle Sounders FC and the Olympics.
Jennifer holds a BS in Hotel Administration with a concentration in Food and Beverage from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is a former president of NACE, SIlicon Valley. She actively participates in NACE and WIPA, and was recently chosen as an "Industry Leader" in the Smart Meetings, 2024 Smart Women in Meetings Awards.
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