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Greater Los Angeles Area

Organizational Lead working with hotel management consultants, staffing consultants and corporate travel consultants. Primarily working with hospitality management companies to help create strategies that produce both results and consistency. Our core skill set includes hotel operations management, staffing, sales & marketing and business development. Additional practices are in the areas of organizational assessment, competitive analysis, sales positioning & re-positioning, strategic planning & implementation, sales task force, training & coaching solutions. PHP is also strongly focused on talent recruitment/acquisition & development, operational staffing, revenue/lead generation and contract negotiations. In addition to serving our hotel clients PHP also consults/assists corporate clients to ensure selection & partnerships with the best travel partners that helps mid to small size organization's with their travel demands.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Ireland based travel group built to market, develop & grow new business relationships with travel agencies and industry professionals across all U.S. markets. Innstant Travel Group is a leading global wholesale, retail and technology solutions travel company bringing superior technology, solutions and service to the U.S. travel industry.

San Diego

Leadership role in sales & marketing for hotels managed by San Diego based management Company. Role included implementing sales and marketing strategies & managing the activities and results to fulfill the vision of the company's CEO and investors. Lead sales team while implementing sales processes to improve and maximize sales performance company wide.

Western Region

Managed and support sales activities for a portfolio of 35 to 40 hotels & management companies franchised under the IHG umbrella. Helped hotel's reach sales goals involving revenue budgets and sales strategies. This position included working closely with ownership, investors and/or management groups while supporting or managing a team of director of sales, sales managers and sales coordinators with monthly/quarterly sales goals, set forth from hotel marketing plans & budgets. Successfully coached, mentored and lead Directors of Sales at each hotel to achieve maximum professional growth & results.