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Iris Baugatz has been appointed as area director of sales and marketing for Central Europe at Marriott International

Iris Baugatz is appointed area director of sales and marketing for Central Europe. In this position, she will be responsible for the sales and marketing activities of currently 38 hotels in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Baugatz joined Marriott in 1997 as sales representative at the Courtyard by Marriott Berlin-Teltow. She then held assignments at the Stuttgart Marriott Hotel Sindelfingen (sales manager, director of sales and director of sales and marketing). In 2003, Iris transferred to Berlin and became a member of Berlin Marriott opening team as a director of sales. After a successful launch of the Berlin Marriott, Baugatz moved to Hamburg in October 2004 and took over the sales and marketing responsibilities at the Hamburg Marriott Hotel. She did an outstanding job there, and in 2006 her team was recognized as Sales & Marketing Team of the Year.

Marriott
Eschborn, Germany
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Vicky Varfis has been appointed as area director of sales and marketing for Eastern Europe at Marriott International

Vicky Varfis is the new area director of sales and marketing for Eastern Europe. Varfis started her hotel career at the Athens Ledra Marriott Hotel as sales coordinator in 1984. Over the following years, she was promoted to sales executive, sales manager and finally senior Sales manager at the same property. From 1993 to 1998, Varfis held assignments with Business Circle, as director of conference and incentive; with Hotel Pentelikon, as director of sales and marketing; and as Greece's representative for ISL Worldwide for the FIBA World Basketball Championships Athens 98 Hospitality program. In November 1998, Varfis rejoined Marriott as director of sales and marketing at the Athens Ledra Marriott Hotel. She was awarded the Sales Leader of the Year for Marriott Continental Europe Region out of 37 hotels in the year 2000. Two years later, in 2002, Vicky and her team were named Global Sales Team of the Year for Marriott International worldwide out of 1,800 hotels.

Marriott
Eschborn, Germany
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Theo Ocks has been appointed as area director of sales and marketing for Western Europe at Marriott International

Theo Ocks is named area director of sales and marketing for Western Europe. He was previously cluster director of marketing in Jakarta responsible for two Ritz-Carltons, the JW Marriott and the Mayflower (Marriott Executive Apartments) in Jakarta. His previous assignment was country director of sales and marketing for 35 Accor hotels in Indonesia. Ocks also has experience as director of sales and marketing in the Accor Hotels and Resorts National Sales Office in Luxembourg. Prior to joining Accor, he was with Radisson SAS Hotels in the United Arab Emirates as director, worldwide accounts and manager Travel Industry and Global Distribution Systems. He has a Bachelor's degree in hotel administration from The Hague with a major in marketing.

Marriott
Eschborn, Germany
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René Mooren has been appointed as Regional VP of Sales and Marketing, Continental Europe at Marriott International

Mooren is responsible for the sales and marketing of 104 hotels operating in Continental Europe across five marriott lodging brands. Mooren became area director of sales and marketing for Marriott International, Central Europe, in 2004, responsible for 40-50 hotels in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Previously, he was director of sales and marketing at the Hamburg Marriott Hotel, responsible for Event Management, Reservations, Sales, Marketing and Public Relations. He held individual and cluster hotel sales positions for Ramada Hotels (a subsidiary of Renaissance Hotels International, acquired by Marriott International in 1997) in Wiesbaden, Hanau, and Coburg, Germany. Mooren received his bachelor degree in business administration at Stenden University, formerly Hotel Management School Leeuwarden, Netherlands. He currently resides in Eschborn, Germany, with his wife and two children.

Marriott International
Eschborn, Germany