Vancouver Convention Centre
Jeromy Gilchrist is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in business development and sales management. Currently, Jeromy serves as the Sr Business Development Manager at the Vancouver Convention Centre since March 2021, and also actively contributes as the Immediate Past President of the PCMA Canada West Chapter since January 2019. Prior to these roles, Jeromy held various sales positions at Marriott International from December 2011 to March 2021. Earlier career highlights include serving as a Mineral Land Marketer at Response Energy and managing two restaurants, Blue Olive and Ouzo Restaurant, from 2002 to 2007. Jeromy holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Hospitality Administration/Management from Vancouver Community College, along with additional education from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.
Vancouver Convention Centre
The Vancouver Convention Centre is the world’s first double LEED Platinum certified convention centre. Located on Vancouver’s downtown waterfront with a dramatic mountain backdrop, the facility offers one of the most beautiful settings in the world. The award-winning Convention Centre features two connected buildings with a combined total of 466,500 ft2 (43,340 m2) of flexible meeting, exhibition, ballroom and plenary space. The facility is committed to environmental sustainability as well as unparalleled service, technology offerings and culinary excellence. The first-ever repeat winner of the International Association of Congress Centres’ award for “World’s Best Convention Centre”, the Centre has an extraordinary team that brings together event details. They also offer five-star cuisine from a “scratch” kitchen philosophy of using fresh, local, and seasonal ingredients and industry-leading technology with connection speeds of up to 1 gigabyte per second.