With over 20 years of sales and marketing experience and 12 years in the tourism industry, Scott McQuade joined the Golden Isles Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) in January 2011 as the Chief Executive Officer.

His main goal in this role is to create a unified effort to promote the region and establish a long-term vision of tourism. Since his arrival and the implementation of a complete new direction for the CVB, the Golden Isles has experienced all time record levels of tourism.

Prior to joining the Golden Isles CVB, Scott served as CEO for Telluride Tourism Board in Colorado, as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Sugarloaf Resort in Maine and was part of the senior executive team for American Ski Company. Scott spend much of his early career as a Vice President for a global advertising firm based in London, servicing such clients as Hewlett Packard, BMW, Price Waterhouse Coopers and other fortune 500 companies.