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Brandon Bang is the National Sales Manager for Big Sky, MT. He has been at Big Sky, off and on, for more than 15 years.

Brandon grew up in Northwestern Minnesota and graduated with a double major (Business & Hotel Management) from the University of North Dakota. With many relatives living in Montana, Brandon has been skiing Big Sky since he was three. So the initial move to Big Sky was an easy choice.

Brandon started his career at Big Sky working at the front desk of the Huntley Hotel. By the end of the season he was promoted to Front Desk Manager. He worked the Huntley for a number of years before moving to Vail to work at one of their hotels. The offer of Sales Manager drew him back to Big Sky, where has been for the last 10 years.

From the start, Brandon has wanted Big Sky to host the Far West Ski Week. Nobody is more excited than Brandon that Big Sky has been awarded the 2009 Ski Week. Over the years Brandon and Big Sky have hosted many of the association’s clubs and councils with group sizes ranging from 10 to 1,000 participants. He has been working with Far West and ski.com this past year to make sure that the Big Sky Ski Week in 2009 is one of the best. It’s an awesome mountain with incredible amenities, and Brandon’s love of it is contagious.

In 2007, Brandon accepted the Far West award given to Big Sky for 15 years of participation in the Travel Carousel and Travel Expo. Last year, Brandon saw that Big Sky hosted the wine for the Saturday Dinner Dance and this year he has another surprise sponsorship in store for Far West.

Skiing, golf, great friends, ’MC’ing the notorious Pond Skim, and all the other experiences in Big Sky keeps Brandon very happy to be a long time local.

Brandon’s infectious love of Big Sky and enthusiasm and support for Far West, its clubs and councils, makes him worthy of the Bill Mackey Award.