Visit Panama City Beach Announces Several Personnel Additions

Visit Panama City Beach has announced new staff appointments including Kristen Krasinskas as sports business development manager while promoting Justin Kelley to sports marketing operations manager.

Krasinskas served as the director of member experience at InnoLead. She also has previous stops at Invictus Boston, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the AHL’s Lake Erie Monsters, the AFL’s Cleveland Gladiators and the MLS’ New England Revolution. Prior to his current role, Kelley earned experience as an intern at Visit Panama City Beach for one year before joining full-time as sales coordinator. He assists in planning and logistics for conferences, sports tournaments, and special events.

“I am thrilled to welcome each of these dynamic and talented individuals to the Visit Panama City Beach team,” said Dan Rowe, Visit Panama City Beach president and chief executive officer. “With the addition of these valuable team members, we look forward to continuing the destination’s incredible growth and momentum across all departments.”

The destination also hired Sydney Clifton as communications and social media manager, Aaron Lee as vice president of administration and Stephanie Howard as sales coordinator. Staff promotions include Morgan Simo to special events operations manager.

Clifton spearheaded all communication strategies and executions for the Bay County Chamber of Commerce. Lee previously spearheaded accounting and investment strategies and executions for Federal Credit Union. Howard is a recent graduate from Florida State University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in hospitality and tourism management in December 2023. Simo joined the Visit Panama City Beach team in March 2023 as sports and special events coordinator and is actively involved with the Bay County Chamber and Panama City Beach Chamber.