Corinne Probert

I have twenty years total experience in Hospitality, with nine years of that in hotels. I've worked with groups of over 1,200 attendees, worked with the Convention and Visitors Bureau servicing and helping to work the sales process for citywide conventions and events. I have booked large conferences with rooms and catering, negotiated hotel buy-outs, as well as excelled in all hospitality market segments. I have surpassed $5M budgets by myself and approach business with a "big picture" approach. I have built menus from scratch and priced them out with the hotel Food & Beverage Director. I've worked as a part of a sales team for 4.5 years out of my 9 years in hotels, and in select service hotels, I reported to my General Managers, a Regional Director of Sales, and a Corporate Revenue Manager. I did my own Sales Hotel Budgets annually for up to five hotels at a time, reconciled my Profit and Loss statements, Brand business cases for 4 different brands simultaneously while reporting findings to on property chain-of-command and other above property corporate ownership. My very first Director of Sales told me at the start of my training that he was not training me to think like a Sales Manager, but to think like a Director of Sales and that is how I've looked at ever piece of business, ever opportunity, and every job I've every had since then.

• ServSafe Certified Food Safety Manager
• TiPS Certified
• Marriott Ready, Set, Sell! Certified Director of Sales

• Dana Boone-Clark, General Manager, Comfort Inn & Suites Norfolk-Virginia Beach, (757) 450-9653, danamclark03@gmail.com
• Rhonda Blunk, Office Manager, McLean Contracting, (757) 543-1676, rblunk@mcleancontracting.com
• Don Meador, Complex Director of Sales, Chesapeake Hospitality, (304) 414-1347, nanadon@aol.com
• Maria Brunner, Sales Manager, Holiday Inn Virginia Beach-Norfolk Hotel & Conference Center, (757) 226-9119, mbrunner@hiexeccenter.com
• Brandi Gadaleta, Director of Sales, Landmark Hotel Group, (757) 777-6636, bgadaleta@landmarkhg.com
• Jane White, Director of Conference Services, Virginia Beach Convention & Visitors Bureau, (757) 385-4700, jtwhite@visitvirginiabeach.com
• Sally Noona, VP of Convention and Meeting Sales, Virginia Beach Convention & Visitors Bureau, (757) 385-4700, snoona@vbgov.com
• Tracey Spencer, General Manager, Hyatt Place Hampton Convention Center, (757) 788-8400