January 31, 2003

Galveston Park Board of Trustees

Galveston Park Board of Trustees Chair Danny Allen said that he and fellow park board members Gerry Del Prete and Mike Pistone have begun telephone interviews with finalists for the position of executive director, but that publicly posted interviews with some of the finalists will be held soon.

"I think that we have a good field of candidates," Allen said.  "A lot of them are very well schooled in the tourism business."

He said the list of finalists; David Lee, president and CEO of the Brownsville Convention and Visitors Bureau in Brownsville, Texas; Carolyn McCormick, managing director of the Outer Banks Visitors Bureau of Nags Head, North Carolina; Robert Cowen, senior vice president of Starwood Hotels & Resorts in Wilton Connecticut; Anthony J. DiFillippo, president and CEO of the Norfolk Convention and Visitors Bureau in Norfolk, Virginia; and Robert Varley, executive director of Florida's Space Coast Office of Melbourne, Florida; will be reduced to a final short list of three or four.

"When we get to that point, we will try to bring some of these individuals in and try to do a face to face," Allen said.

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