Cindy Shtur
Cindy Shtur, CMP, brings over 30 years of experience in the hospitality, travel and meeting industry. While with industry leader Rosenbluth Travel, she was the meeting manager handling a large corporate account, and later went on to develop a meeting planning division for the largest travel agency in Pittsburgh. She joined meeting management firm Concepts Worldwide as the director of operations and also held the position of director of site selection as well as national account executive, purchasing manager and key account sales manager. Shtur then led business development for Travel Dynamics, a meetings and corporate travel company. She has consistently given back to the meetings and events industry, as CMP instructor and on several board positions with Meeting Professionals International. She has served on the MPI Pittsburgh Chapter Board as director of education and vice president of membership, where she received the MPI President’s Honor Roll Award. Shtur led fundraising and sponsorship efforts for the MPI San Diego chapter, where she won the “Star of the Month” award. She was the national sales manager of Unbridled Solutions San Diego branch, and is now the director of global accounts for ConferenceDirect. Shtur also teaches site selection and hotel negotiations at San Diego State University for the Meeting Planning Certificate and Advanced Meeting Management Certificate Programs.