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Vancouver , Bc, Ca

Seattle, Washington, Us

Windsor, Berkshire, Gb

Dual General Manager - Even Hotels and Staybridge Suites in downtown Seattle.

New York, New York, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Area Director of Sales & Marketing for Alexis Hotel, Hotel Monaco, Hotel Vintage and Palladian Hotel.Responsibilities Include:- Oversee Sales and Marketing of four full service boutique hotels in Seattle Washington.- Increased overall revenues for the hotels by 2.9M over 2013. The driving force was average rate which increased $28.00 year over year collectively.- Directly involved in every aspect of owner relationships. Successfully established trusting relationships with each of the Asset Managers for all four of Seattle Kimpton Hotels. - Responsible for $40 Million in overall rooms and catering revenue for the portfolio.- Directly managed a team of 15 people including Sales, Conference Services and Catering Managers - Successfully re positioned Hotel Vintage Park to Seattle’s new Hotel Vintage in 2014. The re imagined product brought in a $31.00 higher ADR year over year. The corporate negotiated and group segments increased by 10% year over year. - Created strategy and process to onboard Palladian Hotel, Seattle’s newest Kimpton Hotel opening February of 2015.. - Active selling role bringing on new clients for Seattle, New York, San Francisco and Chicago. These accounts include Zillow, f5 Networks, Providence, and more. In year one Zillow brought in over $400K to the brand. - Employee Relations – developed team members for growth opportunities within their current roles and with Kimpton Hotels.

New York, Ny, Us

• Represent Egencia North America (NA) in the development of global product initiatives to ensure market needs of NA are considered. • Responsible for over 75% supply revenue for Egencia North America• Lead Egencia NA hotel team of 5 responsible for managing over 8,500 hotels and expanding hotel participation in the Egencia Preferred Rate Program (EPR), our consortia program.• Lead internal relationships with Expedia lodging partners and global hotel team to identify opportunities and ensure Egencia is represented in the Expedia Hotel supply strategy• Identify emerging trends in the hotel industry which may impact Egencia and make appropriate recommendations.• Responsible for training Egencia Sales, Account Management and Global Customer Service teams on Egencia’s hotel program• Represent Egencia to the hotel community in NA (Chains & Independents). Directly manage relations with Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Marriott and Starwood Hotels

Larkspur, Ca, Us

Responsibilities Include:- Represent 15 Hotels located in California, Oregon and Washington. Direct the overall sales efforts for all three of Larkspur’s brands.-Responsible for $63 Million in overall room revenue for the portfolio in 2012.-Directly managed a team of 14 people including Sales Directors and National Sales.-Lead the company’s national sales operations including Larkspur’s Key Account Management Program to enhance our national sales efforts. -Developed and implemented a new rate strategy for our Larkspur Landing portfolio. This plan adjusted our length of stay discounts to promote overall an ADR growth of 8.9% in 2011.- Implemented a rate strategy analysis for all hotels to use annually. - Implemented a sales training program to ensure Larkspur team members are practicing the same key selling behaviors across all three brands.- Created partnerships with vendors to provide sales tools for the team. Partnered with Peoplelinx to provide a training platform for LinkedIn, Travelclick for HT360 and Hoovers for lead generation.- Worked directly with our marketing team and partners to create unique offerings driving incremental revenue to all brands, determine PPC spend, SEO optimization, database mining and moreAdditional Accomplishments:- Responsible for all sales and marketing related to our national trade shows. 2012 tradeshows include the Worldwide ERC (Employee Relocation Council), GBTA and Pow Wow.- Contracted Newmarket International to implement Delphi.net and Meeting Broker for the sales organization.

Larkspur, Ca, Us

- Brand development and sales revenue growth. Developed brand strategy and sales systems.- Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development.- Directly manage 11 Sales Directors throughout Washington, Oregon, and Northern California. My position involves training, motivating, participating in joint calls, and developing business plans to increase financial returns for our brand and ownership group - Oversee the sales operations of the 11 hotel, 1,273 room Larkspur Landing upscale all suites/extended stay portfolio located in three western states.- Responsible for revenue goals of over $30 million annually. Grew room revenues in 2010 by 3.2 million year over year (YOY). On target in 2011 to grow revenues 3.7 million YOY -Developing and implementing successful sales and marketing business plans and managing reports required for the portfolio-Primary sales contact with our ownership group; participate in monthly calls and quarterly meetings- Responsible for all duties related to our national trade shows. I coordinate everything related to GBTA for our company.

Windsor, Berkshire, Gb

- Coordinated sales efforts among 26 hotels in the Northwest territory. Brands represented included Candlewood Suites and Staybridge Suites.-Increased national account volume in providing hotels with more RFP opportunities by working closely with Global Sales- Provided strong training and direct sales involvement to members of the sales force in order to focus on common approach goal setting and metrics for local sales teams

Larkspur, Ca, Us

West Palm Beach, Fl, Us