Cynthia Gomes, CHA, CMP Named Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Old Edwards Hospitality Grou
HIGHLANDS, NC, September 26, 2005. The Old Edwards Hospitality Group is pleased to announce the promotion of Cynthia Gomes to Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Gomes joined Old Edwards Hospitality Group in December 2003 as Director of Sales and Marketing. Her responsibilities will continue to include group sales and catering, advertising, public relations and overall marketing for the nine companies that make up the OEHG.
Gomes was most recently senior regional director of sales and marketing for Crown American Hotels in Atlanta, GA, where, since 1998, she was responsible for the sales and marketing of 13 properties in the southern region. Previously, Gomes was director of sales for Crown American's Comfort Inn Hotel in Atlanta. From 1992 through 1995, she was the senior sales manager for the Omni Hotel at CNN Center in Atlanta.
Gomes earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration from Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, NC, and an associate degree in hotel/restaurant management from Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, NC. She is a certified hotel administrator (CHA), a certified meeting professional (CMP), and a member of Meeting Professionals International (MPI), and past president of the Georgia Chapter-MPI.
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