Meena Raju
Magnuson Hotels and Global Hotel Exchange (GHX) are delighted to announce the appointment of marketing and business development specialist Mrs. Meena Raju as their new Global Marketing Director.
As part of her new role, Mrs. Raju will develop and initiate marketing and communications strategies with the goal of strengthening Magnuson Hotels and Global Hotel Exchange’s brand and assisting them to realize their strategic goals. Among her other duties, Raju will also oversee the management of media and customer relations, partner programs, marketing communications, promotions, electronic marketing and branding for the two entities.
Raju brings a wealth of experience and a diverse range of skills to her new position. A graduate of Mathematics in India, Raju is currently working towards a Master’s Degree in marketing and business development at London’s CASS Business School. She joins Magnuson Hotels and Global Hotel Exchange from the King’s College London, where she held the position of Business Development Manager for a number of years. Previous to that role, Raju gained experience in a wide range of business sectors, including the oil and gas industry, financial services and educational services, working for corporate brands including Shell and Tatas.
Thomas Magnuson, CEO and co-founder of Magnuson Hotels and Global Hotel Exchange, said that he expected Raju’s appointment to benefit the two companies tremendously over the weeks and months ahead:
“It is with great pleasure that Magnuson Hotels and Global Hotel Exchange welcomes Meena Raju to the position of Global Marketing Director. We are confident that hotel owners worldwide will benefit from her dedication and previous experience at Royal Dutch Shell, Tata and Kings College London.”
Echoing those sentiments, Raju said that she was looking forward to the exciting challenges that lay ahead:
“I am delighted to join the Magnuson Hotels Group and look forward to being a part of the exciting phase of expansion and growth.”
The Magnuson Hotels Group is the world’s largest independent hotel group. Since its foundation back in 2002, the company represents almost 2,000 hotels throughout North America and the UK, and boasts of assets of around $5.5 billion. The company is recognized as one of the leading five global hotel brands, and was recently placed as the number one hotel company in a list of the top 5,000 fastest growing companies in the US, published by Inc. Magazine.
Global Hotel Exchange is a brand new start-up operating an international trading platform for hotel bookings that is set to go live in March 2012 across internet, social and mobile networks. The company has developed a new ‘market-based pricing’ system that offers consumers the simplest, fastest and most transparent way to find and book hotel rooms at fair prices. With no fees, discounts or commissions charged, hotels using GHX will retain full control over their room rates and booking allocations, affording them a level of flexibility that is unmatched by all other online booking platforms.
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