Sedona Chamber of Commerce announces its newly elected officials for the Board of Directors

Sedona, AZ - The Sedona Chamber of Commerce announces its newly elected officials for the 2008 Board of Directors: Mal Wienges, Chairman; Joel Gilgoff, Vice-Chairman; Doug McDaniel, Treasurer and Linda Goldenstein, Secretary. The Directors, made up of 15 members from throughout the community, are volunteers who donate up to 10 hours a week working on projects such as the Sedona Home & Business Show, membership maintenance, economic development, Chamber programs and Destination Marketing, to name just a few.

"We are very happy to have such a diverse group of professionals serving on the Sedona Chamber of Commerce Executive Committee," says Jennifer Wesselhoff, President/CEO of the Sedona Chamber of Commerce. Below are the biographies of the newly elected officials for the 2008 Sedona Chamber of Commerce:

Mal Wienges, Chairman

Mal was instrumental in forming the Sedona Chamber's Film Office in 2006. Mal also serves on the City of Sedona's Public Works Quality Assurance Committee, Sedona's Main Street Design Committee, and Saint John Vianney's Finance Committee. Last year Governor Napolitano appointed Mal to serve as an Arizona State Film Commissioner. He was also elected to, and currently serves on, the Executive Committee of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (The Emmy Organization.)

Mal spent an illustrious 31 years at the CBS Television Network. He began as a management trainee and rose to position of Vice President. Wienges is credited with originating the concept of remote production for daytime dramas when he took The Guiding Light to the Bahamas. Since then, Mal has produced more than 158 television and film productions. Mal received two National Emmys, including one for technical achievement for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, and a second National Emmy in 1992 for the NFL on CBS. Wienges, an honors graduate from C.W. Post College with a B.S. in atomic and nuclear physics, obtained a Masters of Science degree in engineering management from Long Island University. Mal is President of Sedona Broadcasting, and serves as a television consultant to the Warner Brothers Television Network and IBM.

Joel Gilgoff, Vice-Chair

Joel Gilgoff brings a wealth of experience with him; a practitioner in real estate in Sedona since 1988, and owner of RE/MAX Sedona since 1993. Joel began his career with IBM in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. as an electronics engineer. He then moved to Los Angeles to install the computers for the space program.

After 13 years with IBM he left to start a chain of retail stores in the Los Angeles area called G.A.M.E.S. This chain of 6 stores sold pinball machines, slot machines, and other amusement devices to homes and businesses. In 1983 Joel left G.A.M.E.S. to start a business consulting firm specializing in computer-based telemarketing, training and retail point of sale computer systems. Joel has also consistently been one of the top realtors in the RE/MAX Southwest Region. For year 2000 he was the top selling RE/MAX agent in the southwest, and was voted Broker/Owner of the year by RE/MAX Southwest Region. He has help hundreds of families find their dream home in Sedona. Joel also serves as Chairman of the City of Sedona's Board of Adjustments as well as chief of technology and the Internet for the Sedona/Oak Creek Chamber of Commerce. He was also a founding member of the Chamber's Destination Marketing Committee.

Doug McDaniel, Treasurer

Doug has extensive experience with governmental organizations, serving as Regional Director coordinating Federal, State, Education, and Labor programs; and as Director of a County Economic Development program. He focused this experience as a Lead Consultant for the May Company out of Chicago, specializing in saving small and midsized companies in danger of failing throughout Western Canada and the U.S., into Latin America, and later, in his own consulting company.

Today, Doug is a Financial Advisor with the Edward Jones Company, helping individuals and companies set goals and use financial assets to achieve the proper risk/reward balance to succeed. He specializes in Benefit Packages for smaller companies to help attract and retain quality employees in a tightening job market. He also serves on many civic/business organizations (Chamber of Commerce Board, President/ Village Business Association, Kiwanis, and others).

Linda Goldenstein, Secretary

A native of Arizona, born on the Hualapai Indian reservation on Route 66, Linda moved to the Sedona area in 1969 and has maintained a home here ever since. She was in the branch banking business for 12 years while raising her two young children. She then followed a job offer in Santa Fe, NM, which led her to opening the Santa Fe Craftsman's Guild, a high-end custom furniture and architectural product company. She sold the company in the late 1990's and partnered in an art gallery on Canyon Road, Santa Fe. When 911 brought down the Towers she felt it was time to return home to Sedona and to her parents, her children and her grandchildren. Linda is the Founder and President of Goldenstein Gallery in Uptown Sedona, a gallery known for it's innovative approach and sense of community. The gallery is in its 6th year of business, with a local following and collectors that span the globe. Goldenstein Gallery has worked with many charity organizations and supported the performing and visual arts such the Canyon Moon Theater and Sedona Chamber Music as well as humanitarian interests including the Verde Valley Sanctuary.

Edd Zielinski, Immediate Past Chairman

Edd is the Executive Vice President, Resort Operations, ILX Resorts Incorporated; President, Chief Operating Officer, Varsity Clubs of America (a wholly owned subsidiary of ILX Resorts). Edd has served as a senior member of ILX Resorts management team since joining the company in September, 1988. While maintaining an office at the company's flagship property, Los Abrigados Resort & Spa in Sedona, AZ, he is responsible for resort management, operations and development of all ILX Resorts properties located throughout Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Nevada and Mexico.

In addition to his 19 years of timeshare operating experience with ILX Resorts in Sedona, he has over 10 years of international resort management and marketing experience with Oceania Resorts, Hyatt International and Continental Airlines in New Zealand, Fiji, Saipan, Guam, Cook Islands, Tahiti and Micronesia. Within the local community he has served on the Mayor's Advisory Committee for Economic Development; participated on the Coconino County Private Industry Council; served as past President of the American Culinary Federation of Northern Arizona; past member of the Chamber of Commerce Destination Marketing Committee; Edd is also a past Director of Sedona Jazz on the Rocks and the Institute of Ecotourism, both non-profit organizations and is a volunteer coach for youth soccer and baseball leagues. Edd is married to Nancy Zielinski. They reside in the Village of Oak Creek with their three children, Stefan, Nicole and Thomas.