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CBMR hires new in-market sales staff

Allison Grassetti
Allison Grassetti is Crested Butte Mountain Resort’s new national sales manager, covering Colorado and the West Coast. With more than 20 years’ experience in every major aspect of the hospitality industry, Grassetti was most recently director of sales for the Red Lion Hotel Denver SE, where she generated more than 80,000 room nights and $6 million in hotel revenue. Her vast experience has focused on the corporate meeting and incentive markets and she has a unique background in working with both city-center and resort-based hotels and destinations.

Bruce Wolpert
CBMR continues to build its national sales team with the addition of Bruce Wolpert as national sales manager. Wolpert is based in Dallas and will focus on the corporate and incentive meetings markets in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Kansas. Wolpert has a long and impressive career track as an experienced sales and marketing hospitality leader, with expertise both at property-level hotels and within global sales for major hotel and resort companies.

Laura Crain
Laura Crain is the new southeast national sales manager based out of Atlanta. She’s a certified meeting planner and has an extensive background in the meeting and event management industry. During her career Crain has worked for a number of companies and organizations including Spherion Inc., Xceleration Inc., the Georgia Association of Realtors and Exchange Monitor Publications. In her various roles she has been responsible for the production and implementation of high-level executive conferences, and educational seminars. Crain’s background also includes resort hospitality industry experience. Her many connections in Georgia’s meeting planning circles will help her succeed in bringing meeting and conference business to Crested Butte.