Raúl Illescas is a marketing expert with a post graduate degree from Georgetown University. As the innovation manager at AGEXPORT (Guatemala’s exporter’s chamber) his responsibilities include: developing innovation-related projects from planning through execution. He is currently overseeing a project intended to boost medical tourism as part of the innovation ecosystem in Guatemala.
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Raúl is a business executive with 20+ years of business experience in marketing, advertisement, project development, and communications. He possesses a bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Marketing awarded by Rafael Landivar University and Mesoamerican University in Guatemala, as well as a Post-Graduate Degree in Business Solutions awarded by Georgetown University.

Brandon Fertig is the Director of Marketing at Medical Tourism Association (MTA) and Global Healthcare Resources (GHR). He is responsible for marketing & communications for the organization's many brands including conferences, associations, certifications, publications, and social media assets which amass more than 1 million industry professionals.

Today, at Medical Tourism Association & GHR, Fertig leads a passionate team of marketing, technology, design, and editorial professionals that focus on creative services ranging from marketing and advertising to content creation and design. Fertig is skilled in marketing psychology, branding, digital advertising strategy, operations automation, and process engineering. Since joining the team, Fertig has increased digital marketing conversion rates by more than 600 percent, with landing page conversions toppling industry averages at 50 to 80 percent.

Jonathan Edelheit is Chairman & Co-founder of Global Healthcare Resources and the Medical Tourism Association. Mr. Edelheit helps governments, insurance companies and hospitals create strategies for medical travel and population health management and to execute on those strategies. Mr. Edelheit is the foremost expert in medical tourism having worked in over 60+ countries with the leading stakeholders, helping them envision their programs and then bringing them to life.

Mr. Edelheit is at the center of a corporate network connecting hundreds-of-thousands of executives and professionals through his portfolio of companies, magazines, events, and expansive presence on LinkedIn Groups with over 200,000+ members.