Effective July 1st Mr. David Bradford has joined the MeetingUniverse advisory board. Mr. Bradford is both an experienced business leader and attorney with over 25 years in the tech industry. He has strong corporate board and government level connections across the United States and abroad. Mr. Bradford served as Senior Vice-President and General Counsel of Novell, Inc. the world leader in computer networking software from 1995-2000. Today, Mr. Bradford is engaged as an entrepreneur as well as in legal and business consulting for a variety of companies. He recently finished a stint as a Partner with one of the Top Ten Law firms in the Country, Greenberg Traurig, where he specialized in counseling Venture Capital and Private Equity groups (Intel Capital was a personal client) as well as provided advice to emerging growth technology companies.

Hotel Park City is the first hotel to receive a full rating with MeetingUniverse.com. The hotel received excellent reviews from 10 planners and a great composite score to earn a 4 star rating. The total composite score for the property was 84%. Some of the highlights of their performance are captured by the following comments: “Very efficient staff in all capabilities. Excellent customer service!”, and “Beautiful hotel, excellent service.”, and “The Group Sales Manager, Executive Assistant and Catering Manager were all extremely nice, professional and a pleasure to work with! I also appreciated the assitance of Deer Valley Resort in securing lift tickets and arranging for snowmobiling for our guests. They even delivered the lift tickets to the Hotel Park City so I didn’t have to pick them up at the resort!!”

MeetingUniverse.com has received 65 full hotel reviews for 45 different properties.  Each review represents a planner’s actual meeting/event experience on up to 115 different criteria.  It takes 10 reviews and a management survey to complete a full rating for a hotel.

The new MeetingUniverse.com portal has been finished and the full ratings/review system is ready to accept meeting planner reviews and ratings.  MeetingUniverse.com is the only rating system that was built from the ground up with the needs of the meeting planner in mind.  At least 10 reviews from planners and a management survey are necessary for a hotel to receive a full rating.  The reviews and management survey score are combined into a full composite score.

MeetingUniverse.com is proud to be at the Motivation show in Chicago for the 2nd year.  Our new website will be on display and many incentives are being offered to Meeting Planners and Suppliers to visit the booth.

Salt Lake City, UT — MeetingUniverse.com has named David M. Brudney, ISHC, principal of David Brudney and Associates of Carlsbad, CA, to its advisory board. Brudney has accepted the seat on the board to assist MeetingUniverse.com launch its proprietary hotel rating system at the upcoming Motivation show in Chicago as well as assist in other key integrations associated with the hospitality/meetings industry.

Brudney has more than 40 years in the hospitality industry, 28 of which have been advising owners and operators of hotels, resorts and conference center throughout North American on ways to improve sales and marketing and overall operational performance, implementation of new programs, deployment benchmarking and validation. Previously, Brudney held executive sales and marketing positions with Hyatt, Westin and Marriott.

“Mr. Brudney will be a great asset to us as we strive to bring transparency to the hospitality industry through a revolutionary hotel rating system. He [Brudney] may very well hold the key to our ability to establish our system as the standard for the meeting planning industry. We are very excited to have him onboard and look forward to the future” stated Russell Ridge, President and Founder of MeetingUniverse.com.

MeetingUniverse.com provides tools to meeting planners to streamline the planning process through performance based information on hotels and service providers. Currently, MeetingUniverse.com is marketing world wide with advertising focused in Salt Lake City, UT., Las Vegas, NV., and New York, NY. For further information, contact MeetingUniverse.com at 888-361-6503 or info@meetinguniverse.com.

MeetingUniverse.com will be an exhibitor at the MPI World Education Congress. Please see us at MeetingPlace booth 2411 in Montreal on July 29th and 30th to see the latest developments in the MeetingUniverse.com toolset for meeting planners. MeetingUniverse.com is the only company online or in print to give meeting and event planners specific performance based information about suppliers and hotels.

MeetingUniverse.com is pleased to announce the addition of noted entrepreneur and COO of Skullcandy to its advisory board effective immediately April 5, 2007

Mr. Andrus is a Vspring top 100 entrepreneur and a Utah Business Magazine top 40 under 40. The following is his bio:

Jeremy Andrus joined Skullcandy in March 2005 and currently serves as Chief Operating Officer. In his role at Skullcandy, Jeremy oversees the sales, finance and operations functions of the company. Jeremy’s career focus has been in strategic planning and business development. He began his career as a strategy consultant for Monitor Company. Jeremy then spent time in the hospitality industry, managing the strategic planning function for boutique hotel owner/operator Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants and running his own hotel development company focused on the development of limited service hotels.
He currently sits on the board of directors of start-up travel company TrueGreece. Jeremy received a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He resides with his wife Kristin in Salt Lake City, UT.

James Clarke has joined the advisory board of MeetingUniverse.com.  The management at MeetingUniverse.com looks forward to the knowledge and expertise that Mr. Clark has offered.  Following is a bio for Mr. Clarke:

James Clarke
ClearLink
Founder/Chairman

Career Info:

ClearLink, Clarke’s second successful start-up, began with the vision of jumping in to the online marketplace as the rest of the world was getting out in 2001.  Clarke founded ClearLink aiming to leverage web-based sales/marketing strategies and applications in the services-to-the-home arena including satellite TV, cable TV and security system sales.  As the driving force behind ClearLink, James has positioned the company for tremendous growth for the future and the company continue to grow at a triple-digit pace annually.

With the hiring of a very capable CEO as well as a groomed management team taking the reigns at ClearLink as of January 2006, James now serves as ClearLink’s Chairman, but spends a majority of his time developing real estate in the Deer Valley/Park City, Utah area with his latest venture, The Clarian Group.  James also serves on the board of SuperGen (NSDQ: SUPG) as shareholders representative, the Kingsbury Hall Board of Advisors, and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts Young Benefactors Board.

Company Info/History:

ClearLink is an interactive firm providing sales/marketing, call center management and website design primarily for large and mid-cap clients, including-Pepsico, CareerBuilder.com, Mrs. Fields/TCBY, DISH Network, Reuters, 3COM, DirecTV, ADT/Tyco and others.

James has been part of several mergers/acquisitions, including: the acquisition of Montigen Pharmaceuticals by west coast biotech SuperGen (NSDQ:SUPG), also the merger of OdysseyWeb.com with MWI, Inc. and the incubation of VoiceVault (joint venture with UV Partners) acquired by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.  Until recently he also served on the Board of Directors of Havens, Inc. (a private residence club-HYPERLINK “http://www.bellehavens.com/“www.BelleHavens.com) until its acquisition in early 2007.

Family Info:

Married to the former Andrea M. Earl of Salt Lake City, Utah
2 children-daughter Savannah, born May 29, 2003 and son Jack, born September 27, 2005

Hobbies: Family, Travel, Education, Skiing, Snowmobiling, Movie/Music Fan

Education:

James is a graduate of Brigham Young University and Harvard Business School.

Community Outreach/Accolades:

2004-2007       Distinguished Member of Utah Technology Council
2006                Utah Business Magazine “40 Under 40″, Featured on Magazine Cover
2006-2007       Utah Chapter YPO-Member/Honoree
2005                vSpring, v100 Entrepreneur Honoree
2005                DECCA Community Entrepreneur Honoree
2004                Mountain West Venture Group, Utah 100 Honoree (Fastest Growing Corps in Utah)
2003                National Congressional Committee, National Leadership Award-Honorary Chairman
Speaks and Writes Fluent Spanish.

Accomplished professor, author and marketing consultant Alan Sandomir has been added the the MeetingUniverse.com advisory board.