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Maria Elena Beras-Vogt, Director of Sales Maria Elena Beras-Vogt started with Colwen Management as the Director of Sales of the Residence Inn by Marriott in Foxborough in 2004, soon after she was promoted to Area Director of Sales and Regional Sales Manager for several Colwen hotels in Massachusetts. In January 2009, she was named Director of Sales of the new Renaissance Hotel & Spa at Patriot Place. Beras-Vogt received a bachelor’s degree in Hotel Management from the prestigious Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra in Santo Domingo. Since living in Massachusetts, she has been able to apply her hotelier expertise from the hotels she worked for in Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Miami, Florida. Beras-Vogt has been recognized by Marriott International with several awards including the prestigious Chairman’s Circle in 2007 that sent her on an all expense paid trip to Cancun, Mexico; and the global award of Sales Team of the Year 2007. Beras-Vogt also won the award for Sales Leader of the Year for the Northeast Region in 2007. In addition, she won the 2006 Manager of the Year for Colwen Management. Beras-Vogt lives in Attleboro, MA with her husband and two sons. Monica Muehl, Sales Manager Monica Muehl joined the opening team of the new Renaissance Hotel & Spa at Patriot Place as Sales Manager. Muehl is a graduate of Johnson & Wales University with a BS in Hospitality Management in 1994, and in 2001, an MBA in Organizational Management. She previously worked for Marriott International for 13 years. Her career began at the Marriott Boston Copley Place in 1994 and she was promoted to management in 1997 as Executive Meeting Manager at the Newport Marriott in Rhode Island. She transferred as Senior Sales Manager from Newport to open the Marriott Boston Quincy in 2001 and then was promoted to Senior Account Executive at the Marriott Boston Copley Place in 2004. Most recently Muehl was the Program Specialist for the Eastern New England Market Sales team for Marriott International. Muehl coaches figure skating for children ages 4-16, and enjoys spending time with her husband and two children. Rita Matta, Sales and Revenue Coordinator Rita Matta’s career started prior to graduating from UMASS Boston, at the Boston Newton Marriott. Over her eleven year period there, she transitioned from concierge attendant, to guest service agent, to At Your Service supervisor and eventually was promoted to assistant front desk manager. These stepping stones have led Matta to her current position as the primary sales and revenue coordinator at the Renaissance Hotel & Spa at Patriot Place. Matta solidified her priority of making people feel “at home away from home” by securing her degree in management and hotel marketing. “Hospitality has always been a first and foremost desire for me, and was an integral part of my upbringing - it was fitting that I establish a career in the hotel industry.” Matta explains passionately about her role. |
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