William
P. DeSousa
Vice President & Treasurer, Michael Patrick Destinations & Communications
DeSousa brought 15 years' experience in banking, finance and grant writing to his current eleven-year career in destination and tourism marketing and public relations.
DeSousa was born in New York City and later moved with his family to Huntington, Long Island. After earning a Regents Diploma and a scholarship from the Steuben Society of America, he attended the State University of New York in Oneonta where he earned a baccalaureate degree in Clinical Psychology in 1972. He trained as a fellow at the prestigious South Oaks Hospital in Amityville, NY, and concurrently earned a Master of Clinical Psychology degree from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1974, where he continued postgraduate study in mental health in a doctoral program.
In 1974, he joined Meadowbrook National Bank (now National Westminster Bank) and continued, for the next 14 years, to advance in the financial services industry until 1988, when he attained the vice presidency of mortgage banking at Northeast Savings of Hartford, Connecticut.
In 1988, DeSousa left the financial industry to join Glenn Faria in the genesis of a tourism marketing and public relations firm and subsequently became a principal of Michael Patrick Destinations & Communications. Since 1988, he has been very active in the tourism arena, particularly in New England. He was an officer of the management group which oversaw New England USA and was financial manager of Discover New England for nearly five years, managing every nuance of these public-private partnerships including grant writing, reporting, cash management, budgeting and financial management.
DeSousa's sense of adventure and love for both travel and his adopted home, New England, naturally led him to a career which would be centered around travel and tourism. His expressive, anecdotal writing style is used extensively in writing both industry articles and essays and feature stories for the firm's publications and in the preparation of the firm's clients' press materials. His travel feature stories have been published in a number of travel publications, including Cape Cod Travel Guide, New England Travellers' Guide and The Boston Herald.
DeSousa is bilingual (English and German) and lives in the village of Osterville on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
