I am excited to announce that my nomination today of Ms. Sami Haiman-Marrero to the Board of Directors for Visit Orlando was approved by the Board of County Commissioners in a 7-0 vote earlier this morning.  

Ms. Haiman-Marrero has over 17 years of experience in national advertising, marketing, business development and multicultural affairs. She began her career at a Hispanic PR agency in New York City where she played a lead role in Hispanic outreach for the 1996 Presidential election and later went on to work with a multicultural agency managing Latino festivals across the United States, media tours for book authors and health conferences for pharmaceutical companies.

Ms. Haiman-Marrero served as Publisher of Mira, owned by the National Enquirer and the first ever newspaper tabloid published in Spanish. Upon moving to Orlando in 2004, Ms. Haiman-Marrero worked for the New York Post managing national Advertising Sales for their English-language Latino section called Tempo. She is currently the Founder/President of Urbander, a business development and marketing agency with local, national and international accounts.

Ms. Haiman-Marrero holds a Masters in Communications from the University of Puerto Rico and is a member of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the National Society of Hispanic MBAs, a Board member of the Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce of Central Florida and an Associate Member of the American Translators Association.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to call (407)836-5881, or email me at Jennifer.Thompson@ocfl.net.

Regards,

Jennifer Thompson

Orange County Commissioner, District 4

201 S. Rosalind Avenue

Orlando, FL 32801

407-836-7350

www.jenniferthompson.net