For more than 20 years, Kathleen Duda has been bringing intelligence, creativity and commitment to the work of providing public relations, sales, marketing and promotional services to diverse clients in a variety of industries.

Beginning in 1983, Kathleen spent five years as an Executive Vice President at Shearson/American Express, holding supervisory positions in the Marketing, Incentives, and Corporate Events divisions. Her responsibilities included budgeting, as well as planning and producing business meetings and conferences, cultural sponsorships and sporting events worldwide. She interacted frequently with senior management, international government and cultural agencies, and the firm’s most important clients.

In 1988, Kathleen established Marketing Solutions and began providing similar services to corporations and the travel industry. She generated communication and marketing strategies and served as a consultant to tourism and trade offices, including those of Egypt and Morocco, that were developing new approaches for the American market.

In the early 1990s, Kathleen expanded her services to provide a complete suite of public relations, marketing and sales services to a growing list of clients facing new geopolitical and economic challenges. In the years since, she has developed thorough expertise in luxury properties and international destinations, categories that overlap with the lifestyle products and services that were part of Kathleen’s earlier career experiences. She spent four years at Estée Lauder, where she managed the corporate art collection and assisted Estée Lauder International Chairman Ronald S. Lauder on special projects and during the launch and expansion of key product lines. In that regard, she gained a thorough understanding of high-end retail product lines in an arena defined by style, aesthetics and caché.

She has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Morocco, Egypt, Australia and New Zealand, and she spent five years as a legislative aide with the New York State Legislature’s Labor Committee. As a Manhattanite dedicated to serving her community, she has spent many years supporting a major gastronomic event benefitting Share-Our-Strength (SOS), whose proceeds go to feeding the hungry in New York and has sponsored a child through Save the Children for the last 15 years.

Equally important as her talent, energy and experience, however, is the sensibility that Kathleen brings to her work, that she has in common with her clients and that is reflected in her commitment only to excellence, but to aesthetics and vision as well. Beyond her hotel clients’ passion for luxury and dedication to gracious service is a love of architecture and interior design, whether expressed in the frescoes of a historic hilltop villa or the play of light and angles in a contempory seaside structure. The restaurants she represents integrate refined design and evolved cuisine; her chefs are trailblazers of taste and style. She promotes tourism with an eye to the nuance and essence of place. It is this shared sensibility that enables Kathleen not only to work with her clients, but to connect with them in a way that dramatically enhances their ability to achieve critical market objectives.

The arts. Fine food. Fashion. Family. Fierce public relations and promotion. Those are the driving passions
in Gillian's life.

With a B.A. in English from Youngstown State University in Youngstown,OH Gillian launched a career in public relations and promotions at one of Chicago's most prestigious PR Firms. In 1995 she and her husband
(who also happens to be her business partner) migrated to Maine where Gillian took up residence as Director of Public Relations for one of the region's largest marketing firms. She established gBritt PR in the fall of 1998.

In addition to the work she does for her clients she sits on the board of the Maine Jewish Film Festival, is a member of the Maine Arts Commission's Community Relations/Public Information Committee and was
recently appointed to Portland's Creative Economy Steering Committee.

When it comes to vision and passion, you can just add a "ditto" to Gillian's with a dash of love of sports and music and you have a sense of what matters to Jim.

With a B.S. in Business and Marketing, Jim has held key marketing roles within the food, beverage and hospitality industries. Having worked with Barber Foods and then with the Chicago-based International Food Marketing Association (IFMA), Jim translates his passion for fine dining and food culture into his everyday life. Prior to joining
gBritt PR with Gillian, he was a Senior Account Director at one of the nation's leading experiential marketing firms working with Kraft Foods/Nabisco and SONY Online Entertainment.

Jim holds a position on the Board of Directors for the Children's Museum of Maine and is a co-founder and current board member at Share Our Strength Maine, the state-level chapter of the highly regarded national non-profit Share Our Strength.

Evelyn has spent 25 years within the travel industry. She has assisted in opening 7 hotels, and has held numerous positions within the hotel business. Her tenure includes positions with prestigious hotels; Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Kea Lani Hotel,  Emerald Hotels -Mauna Lani Bay Hotel, Hawaiian Regent and Pan Pacific in Anaheim. Prior to starting LMG she was Dir. Of Sales and Marketing worldwide for the Bora Bora Lagoon Resort in French Polynesia, now an Orient Express Hotel .

She has been a featured Marketing/Tourism speaker at UCLA, Golden West Colleges and for the So. California Bridal Consultants Association.  Her relationship with numerous Tourism Boards, airlines, hotels and resorts, wholesalers and other industry vendors, and travel journalists have made her an invaluable asset to her clients.  She is a member of MPI, SITE, Ka Ohana O Kaleponi, South Bay Women In Travel, and frequently attends many other Travel industry related events. Evelyn has also been the Chair for the Manhattan Beach Chamber of Commerce Women In Business committee for two years, and a  member since 2001.

Evelyn also devotes time to fundraising for several non-profit organizations. She was recently honored by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for her 12 years of dedication. She enjoys entertaining friends and family, playing tennis, cooking.  When she is not traveling for her clients, she resides in Manhattan Beach with her husband Sam and sons Ryan and Dylan.

James was the Editor-in-Chief of Islands magazine as well as Senior Editor at Bon Appetit. Based in Santa Barbara his responsibilities include writing and editing of communications for presentation to various media outlets. A journalism and English literature major, James writes frequently for the Los Angels Times, The Slatin Report, The Robb Report, Travel + Life, USA Today and others. He has co-authored two books on the culinary arts.

Dan League brings over 20 years of diversified expertise within the travel industry to LMG. His well rounded sales, reservations/revenue management experience includes employment with Mid-Pacific and Aloha Airlines, ITT Sheraton Hotels and Kapalua Bay Hotel Villas. League later expanded his knowledge of electronic distribution and marketing with TravelCLICK and Secure-Res as a Regional Director, specializing in on-line reservation services and Internet marketing.

As the Electronic Marketing Specialist, League brings a combination of sales, marketing, reservations and technology expertise to League Marketing Group. He specializes in website analysis and search engine marketing; areas that offer significant potential for generating consumer direct revenues at the lowest acquisition costs for hotels and resorts.

A longtime resident of Southern California, League earned his B.A. in Marketing and Political Science from Chaminade University and holds an MBA in Marketing from Sophia University in Tokyo. He has been a guest speaker in a number of travel industry venues on topics emphasizing search engine marketing, direct online sales, technology and results oriented electronic marketing.