Mary Loftness

 

Expertise

 

Customer relationship management, call center management, e-commerce, customer satisfaction research and revenue management.

 

Background

 

Ms. Loftness has 19 years experience in the hospitality industry, including database management, e-commerce, reservations systems, revenue management, customer satisfaction research and computer systems.

An associate of Hannah Marketing Group, Ms. Loftness is also a principal in Profitable Customers. Prior to forming Profitable Customers, she served as Director of Operations for GORP.com, an adventure travel e-commerce business. Prior to that Ms. Loftness serviced as Vice President of Relationship Marketing for Station Casinos, Inc. In this capacity, she created a centralized customer database and loyalty program, developed a sophisticated campaign management system to analyze customer acquisition costs, opened a direct mail center, launched personalized website and email marketing programs, established a multi-faceted centralized call center for seven casinos and oversaw the revenue management for six hotels.

Prior to joining Station Casinos, Ms. Loftness served as Total Quality Management Facilitator, Reservations Manager and Service Express Manager at The Westin Hotel Indianapolis. She began her hospitality career with Radisson Hotels International where she served in a variety of property-level positions and then as corporate computer systems coordinator. In this latter position, Ms. Loftness installed and provided software support for hotel sales and catering systems and co-designed the database system for National Sales Office Account Management.

 

Education

 

Ms. Loftness holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management from Southwest State University.

 

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