Our Management Team

After graduating cum laude from The Ohio State University, Shirley began a teaching career in Cleveland, Ohio, but after relocating to Atlanta in the early 50’s she gave up teaching to concentrate on raising her three daughters and to do volunteer work in Atlanta’s growing arts community.  In 1973 her passion for travel led Shirley to open Age of Travel, a full-service travel agency founded on the principal that travel is the ultimate educational experience.

While it was the allure of exotic lands and diverse cultures that first drew Shirley to the travel industry, she soon discovered that the business of Business Travel is, quite literally, the grease that lubricates the wheels of global commerce, and she built Age of Travel into one of Atlanta’s top corporate travel management companies.  Eventually, Shirley created a separate brand for her leisure clients – Blaine Travel, and; in 1991, using the expertise garnered from planning meetings for her corporate clients, she founded Monumental Meetings as a stand-alone division dedicated to planning and operating group travel, meetings and incentive travel.

Nancy Crenshaw
President, Monumental Meetings

Nancy graduated Queen’s University in Canada. She worked in management in the insurance industry for ten years and was an educator for five years. Prior to moving to Atlanta, she lived in Argentina for three years. Nancy has been with the organization for over eight years and has fulfilled several roles including Office Manager, Director of Human Resources, and Account Executive for Monumental Meetings. In January 2006 she was appointed President of Monumental Meetings. She works closely with vendors and clients worldwide. Nancy is client driven and strives to exceed expectations. Building a team of bright, creative, organized and energetic team members is one of her primary roles.

Barbara Blaine McRee,
VP Vendor & Group Air Negotiations

Barbara graduated from the University of Georgia and continued her education there working towards a masters degree in Special Education. Barbara joined the company in 1979 as a part time employee. Upon realizing how much she enjoyed the industry she chose it as a full time career. Now with over twenty-six years of industry knowledge she leads our team in vendor development and relationships. She is highly successful in negotiating cost and value added product for our clients.

Steve Parish
Executive VP

Steve, a native of Atlanta, joined Monumental Meetings’ parent company, Age of Travel, as Executive Vice President in 2005 after returning home from Cincinnati, Ohio where he concluded a successful twenty-year passenger sales career with Japan Airlines (JAL).  A graduate of Georgia State University with a degree in Journalism, Steve has more than 30 years of international sales and marketing experience in the airline, incentive travel and group tour industry.  With an aptitude for developing relationships and a talent for bringing a diversity of people together in pursuit of a common goal, Steve’s resume includes such notable global travel companies as Korean Airlines, Swiss-based Kuoni, Philippine Airlines, and JAL.