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MODERATORS & PANELISTS (continued)

Sarah Martinez Laura Moriarty
Director of Marketing Principal, Tahoe Training Partners
Eco-Products, CO & Partner/Co-Founder,
At Eco-Products, Sarah Martinez develops Resort HR Partners, CA
and promotes an authentic, mission-centric Laura Moriarty has built total compensation
brand working toward Zero Waste by rede- systems, HR solutions, and innovative train-
fining single-use foodservice packaging. ing environments in hospitality companies,
She educates stakeholders on the impacts resorts, retail, health care organizations,
of packaging, promotes waste diversion, and serves on the board manufacturing, municipalities, and government agencies since
of the US Composting Council. Her previous role at Eco-Products 2007. A resort hospitality veteran, she has had senior leadership
was “Sustainability Maven,” ensuring that environmental and positions for complex organizations, including 10 years as cor-
social responsibility were top-of-mind. Previously, she was sustain- porate VP of human resources for Booth Creek Resorts. Moriarty
ability manager for retailer Target and led sustainability efforts for customizes on-site management training for resorts across the
the global real estate firm Prologis. When not obsessing about country. She has SPHR and SHRM-SCP credentials and is past
composting or worrying about conventional single-use plastic, president of the California High Sierra and Foothills Chapter of
she enjoys hiking, yoga, and reading. the Society for HR Management.

Kim Mayhew Alex Moser
President/Chief Operating Officer Director of Marketing & Communications
Solitude Mountain Ski Area, UT Seven Springs Mountain Resort, PA
After more than two decades in ski school In 2008, Alex Moser joined Seven Springs’s
teaching and ski school management executive team, where he currently oversees
roles at Utah’s Deer Valley Resort, Kim all marketing, advertising, and communica-
Mayhew was promoted to director of tions for more than 30 business units within
human services in 2001 and served in that three resorts. His responsibilities include
role for some 14 years. In January 2015, after a total 33 years advertising for skiing/snowboarding, dining, spa, golf, sporting
at Deer Valley, she was named “transition manager” in order to clays, human resources, real estate, and hotel; managing a com-
assist with the resort’s acquisition of Solitude. She then became munity relations department, with $500,000 in goods and services
general manager in May 2015. (Deer Valley has since been sold to distributed to the region in the last three years; and overseeing
Alterra Mountain Company and Solitude was not part of that sale.) resort events. Before joining Seven Spring, Moser was in marketing
Mayhew and her husband, Jack, have one grown son, Peter, and roles with the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Washington Capitals, and the
a daughter-in-law Victoria. When Mayhew isn’t on skis she enjoys Washington Wizards.
running, biking, music, and reading.

Traci Mercer
Senior Vice President, Global Lodging,
Ground & Sea
Sabre Travel Network
Traci Mercer is responsible for managing
the strategic direction, commercial conver-
sations, supply relationships and growth
for hotels, car rental companies, cruise
and rail lines, and other non-air travel providers that participate
in Sabre’s travel marketplace worldwide. She joined Sabre from
Hootsuite Media where she led global growth as the global vice
president of online revenue and growth. A dynamic, data-oriented
leader, Mercer has more than 15 years of travel industry experi-
ence, including 10 years at Expedia Inc. in various leadership roles
related to business strategy, general management and sales/
MontyLov
account management in North America and Asia-Pacific.

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