Marketing Committee

Marketing Committee Mission

The Marketing Committee: 

• Serves as the zoo and aquarium professional community’s leading voice on marketing trends and opportunities.
• Enhances, elevates and protects the brand and mission of accredited zoos and aquariums through national awareness campaigns.
• Works to generate new revenue streams by providing expertise and support for building awareness and participation in AZA and its programs.
• Enhances the quality and professionalism of AZA member marketing staff through annual/regional conferences, sharing of best practices and resources, facilitating networking opportunities, and administration of the annual Excellence in Marketing Award.

Chair
Ryan Bickel, Blank Park Zoo

Vice-Chair
Tina Tison, Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk

Members
Danielle Bolton, North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores
Tricia Chambers Bump, Phoenix Zoo
Greg Heanue, Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden
Sarah Hezel, John G. Shedd Aquarium
Vincent Jeffries, Akron Zoological Park
Courtney Jolly, Naples Zoo
Jennifer Lynch, Brandywine Zoo
Clark Maxwell, Birmingham Zoo
Ashley Mobley, Sequoia Park Zoo
Vince Nicoletti, Adventure Aquarium
Marie Revenew, Denver Zoo
Laura Rieder, Woodland Park Zoo
Leah Rippe, Chicago Zoological Society - Brookfield Zoo
Mark Simon, Utica Zoo
Diane Villa, North Carolina Zoo
Lochlan Wooten, Riverbanks Zoo & Garden

Advisors 
Kait Hilliard, Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association
Krista Swan, Oregon Zoo
Ginnie Westmoreland, Saint Louis Zoo

AZA Staff Liaison
Gina Velosky