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Visit Loudoun, or the Loudoun Convention and Visitors Association, has named Patrick Kaler president and chief executive officer. Kaler was previously the senior director of travel industry and tourism development for LA Inc., The Convention and Visitors Bureau of Los Angeles. Kaler will start March 15. Kaler replaces Visit Loudoun’s former president and chief executive officer, Cheryl Kilday, who resigned July 7 to take the position of president and chief executive officer of the Spokane Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau in Spokane, Wash. Rick Webster had served as interim director.