Sarah ViningIACC Americas President Peter J. Stockmann announced the appointment of Sarah Vining of Bethesda, MD as IACC’s sixth Board Associate following a comprehensive process through which member properties in the United States and Canada could nominate exceptional staff members under the age of 30.Vining, who currently serves as Marketing Manager at The National Conference Center in Leesburg, VA, will represent Generation X/Y on the IACC Board of Directors with a focus on identifying and advising the Board on emerging trends. At The National Conference Center, she manages the property’s media relations and advertising, social media activities, hosts social media training workshops, is a frequent speaker at industry-related panels and has written four comprehensive white papers for the quarterly series Meeting Discoveries on topics relating to meeting industry trends and helping meeting planners develop more productive meetings.