Hedy M. Varga has been promoted to senior sales manager for the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center currently under construction on UCLA’s main campus.
The university-based conference center, which will offer 254 guest rooms and 25,000 square feet of state-of-the-art meeting space, is scheduled to open in August of this year.
"It is such a pleasure to announce Hedy’s well-deserved promotion,” said Cindy Gagle, director of sales & marketing. “Her success is a combination of drive, superb relationship-building and selling skills, and a complete dedication to the importance of the Luskin Conference Center’s future role in education, knowledge advancement and learning.”
Varga brings to her new role previous success as sales manager in the important pre-opening phase of the Luskin Conference Center, as well as sales leadership experience at multiple signature hotels in California. These include serving as director of sales for the Loews Hollywood Hotel, and in sales positions for the Sofitel Los Angeles, the Canary Hotel Santa Barbara, The Beverly Hilton, the Westin Century Plaza, The St. Regis Los Angeles and the Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey.
Varga attended the University of California, Santa Barbara. She completed the Hilton Customer-Focused Selling Sales College program, the Ritz-Carlton Leadership Training program and the Master Connection Association Sales Training Levels I and II.
Varga is an active member of Meeting Professionals International and the California Society of Association Executives. A native of Los Angeles, she resides in Granada Hills, Calif. with her husband and their young son.
