{"id":2661,"date":"2019-01-09T13:03:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T18:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=2661"},"modified":"2020-07-10T12:34:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T16:34:28","slug":"talia-kornfeld","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/profile\/talia-kornfeld\/","title":{"rendered":"Talia Kornfeld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hometown<\/strong>: Scarsdale, NY<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current Location:<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>New York, NY<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you choose SHA?<\/strong><br \/>\nI chose to study at SHA as a university and major transfer my sophomore year. I honestly hadn\u2019t been well enough informed that Hospitality was an option and was thrilled to make the switch from Communications at another university.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are some of your favorite BU memories?<\/strong><br \/>\nI was really active in BU acapella and had a blast singing with Aural Fixation. I also got to TA the cooking classes at SHA and I\u2019ll never forget everything I learned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was your first full-time job? How did you end up in your current position?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy first full time job was working at a 3rd party event planning company, specializing in non-profit events. I started at the company September 2008, the same week Lehman collapsed. It was an interesting time to be in the non-profit sector. I found the job through word of mouth, and stayed for 14 months before being laid off due to the economic crisis. 8 months later I landed on my feet at BlackRock on the Global Event Management team and I was lucky enough to find the job on Indeed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please describe your current role. How did your SHA education impact your career?<\/strong><br \/>\nI am currently the Director of Events at Palmer Advanced Media. At PAM I specialize in large-scale conferences, tradeshows, executive experiences and hospitality events in the technology and finance industries. I love how diverse my work is and that it\u2019s always a moving target. With every event I feel like I\u2019m learning a new piece of information, honing a skill, or building my network\u2013all are essential! I apply Professor Szende\u2019s formula for alcoholic drinks on a daily basis, and appreciate my knowledge of accounting when speaking with a vendor\/venue. It matters!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any advice for current and prospective students?<\/strong><br \/>\nSince graduating, I\u2019m on my 4th job and have gotten to experience many specialties of Event Planning. I\u2019ve worked in non-profit galas\/walks, at a finance giant planning conferences, executive events, and client entertainment events, a boutique financial advisory firm planning monster conferences, and now planning tradeshows and executive experiences. When I started at SHA, I was going to be a Pastry Chef. You just never know where life will take you, and that\u2019s ok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15187,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2663,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2661\/revisions\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}