• MGM MIRAGE has promoted Jacqueline Goldy to vice president of incentive sales, making her responsible for leading the company's incentive sales initiatives, which range from developing and maintaining key customer relationships to property marketing and contract negotiations. She also will direct strategic long-term expansion plans including potential additional offices in targeted territories across the country.
"Jacqueline's reputation in the incentive sales industry is incomparable and we are confident her new leadership position will further strengthen MGM MIRAGE's position of market leader," says Aldo Manzini, executive vice president and chief administrative officer of MGM MIRAGE. Goldy is member of the Society of Incentive Travel Executives and the Incentive Research Foundation. www.mgmmirage.com
• New York-based TBA Global, an event marketing and communications and destination management firm, has announced a pair of senior executive appointments. David Kahn has returned to the firm as executive vice president of destination management sales, and Carl Hyman has joined the firm to head up its Learning and Performance Solutions Group. Hyman will oversee the firm's new Collective Learning platform, which both delivers content and helps the learners—such as salespeople—to connect what they have learned to overall corporate objectives. www.tbaglobal.com
• Incentive gift card industry veteran Rebekka Rea has joined Giftex Prepay, and will oversee the UK-based independent research and event management firm's creation of a North American Network. Rea's experience includes stints at incentive gift card providers Blackhawk Network and InComm, as well as incentive company's IncentOne and Globoforce. She has led a number of committees of the Incentive Marketing Association's Incentive Gift Card Council. www.giftexprepay.com