With greater than 25 years of expertise within the meetings and travel industry, David O’Donohoe have been named senior vice president, hospitality sales on 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. Previous to Rainmaker, O’Donohoe led global sales and strategy for the Smart Hotel Cloud business at Lanyon.

“David has an excellent 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 that i know he'll represent Rainmaker and our solutions well.

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For the past 10 years, O’Donohoe’s focus have been on counseling, consulting and enabling hotel chains, brands, properties and companies on how you can 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 help hospitality clients with their strategic direction while helping to maximise revenue opportunities and decrease their cost of sale.  

With StarCite since 2006, O’Donohoe led the expansion of an international meetings and business travel marketplace linking corporate meetings and travel buyers with greater than 130,000 hotel properties and travel suppliers around the globe. StarCite had a successful investor exit with its purchase by Active Network in 2011. With Active, O’Donohoe was liable for continued growth of the worldwide supplier business, resulting in 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.

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