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The
Rainmaker Group Appoints
David
O’Donohoe As New SVP, Hospitality Sales
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Atlanta,
GA – June 2016 / Newsmaker Alert / With more than 25 years of experience
in the meetings and travel industry, David O’Donohoe has been named senior
vice president, hospitality sales at The
Rainmaker Group. O’Donohoe has a distinguished track record of
assisting hoteliers in driving efficiencies and revenue within both group
and transient business channels. Prior to Rainmaker, O’Donohoe led global
sales and strategy for the Smart Hotel Cloud business at Lanyon.
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 “David
has an impressive track record in hospitality and knows the industry inside
and out,” said Tammy Farley, Rainmaker co-founder and president. “We’re
excited to introduce him to clients and prospects, and I know he will represent
Rainmaker and our solutions well.”
For
the past 10 years, O’Donohoe’s focus has been on counseling, consulting
and enabling hotel chains, brands, properties and corporations on how to
maximize visibility and conversion in a $6 billion meetings marketplace
and within a 1.4 million corporate travel RFP process. Moving forward,
O’Donohoe will continue to assist hospitality clients with their strategic
direction while helping to maximize revenue opportunities and reduce their
cost of sale.
With
StarCite since 2006, O’Donohoe led the growth of a global meetings and
business travel marketplace linking corporate meetings and travel buyers
with more than 130,000 hotel properties and travel suppliers around the
world. StarCite had a successful investor exit with its purchase by Active
Network in 2011. With Active, O’Donohoe was responsible for continued growth
of the global supplier business, leading to a successful acquisition by
Vista Equity Partners in 2013.
O’Donohoe
holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Maryland,
College Park.
About
Rainmaker
Headquartered
in Alpharetta, Georgia, Rainmaker is the premier provider of profit optimization
and demand-cycle solutions to the hospitality and multifamily housing industries.
Since its founding in 1998, the company has focused solely on delivering
the highest revenue returns possible through the development and cultivation
of a suite of products and consulting services designed to streamline operational
efficiencies, enhance revenue optimization processes, improve lead performance
and generate greater demand. Recognized as one of the top privately held
companies in the United States, Rainmaker has been named to Inc.
5000’s Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies for the last five years
and was named to the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s List of the 100
Fastest Growing Companies in Atlanta. To learn more about Rainmaker and
its suite of profit and demand optimization solutions, please visit www.LetItRain.com,
and follow Rainmaker on Facebook,
LinkedIn
and Twitter.
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212-284-9935
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