JOY Florentino has joined Marriott Hotel Manila as its first director for convention sales, in anticipation of the January 2015 opening of the 6,800m2 Marriott Grand Ballroom and 228-room Hotel Tower.
Florentino has a strong background in the MICE trade. She is a certified meeting planner, former associate vice chair of the California Society of Association Executives and past president of Meeting Professionals International, Sacramento Sierra Nevada Chapter.
She also worked with Marriott International as director of sales for the Sacramento Area Cluster and senior market account executive for Western Mountain Pacific Sales where she implemented strategies for identifying key association accounts.
