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Celebrating Team Duetto

Our blog is our forum for celebrating our clients’ successes, providing thought leadership on revenue strategy and hotel technology, and delivering news updates to help hotels be better informed about events that could be impacting their business.

It is also our forum for showcasing the amazing talent we have in our team. Working at Duetto is a very special experience and we are lucky to have some of the best engineers, developers, revenue experts and integrations and deployment specialists from around the world as part of Team Duetto.

Here’s a quick round-up of some of the blogs we ran in 2020 that provide insight into some of the many amazing talents we have here:


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Cheryl Chavez, Chief Product Officer

Cheryl Chavez joined Duetto as Chief Product Officer in March 2020 – just four days before we closed our offices due to the COVID-19 lockdown.

An experienced techie, who has spent most of her career advocating controlled automation in marketing, she has big plans for Duetto’s product development. And then there’s her love of wine, entertaining, travel and hospitality in general – she’s the perfect fit for Team Duetto!

We caught up with her to find out more about her experience, managing through a crisis, and who her top five dinner guests of all time would be.

Read: Women In Tech: Cheryl Chavez, Chief Product Officer


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Andreea Brescan, Director of Casino Services

Andreea Brescan has been with Duetto for six years, her role involves working with casinos and hotels all over the world to train them on using the Duetto applications and assist them in building their Revenue Strategy.

A self-confessed number junkie, with a master’s in economics from UNLV, Andreea worked first as a financial analyst and then went into Revenue Strategy for Caesars Entertainment, Inc. She ran revenue at the flagship property Caesars Palace Las Vegas Hotel & Casino and opened the first Nobu hotel in the world within Caesars Palace. She was part of the opening team for SLS Casino (now Sahara Las Vegas) before joining the team at Duetto.

We caught up with her to find out more about her career path to Duetto, her earlier ambitions to be a race car driver, and her advice for young women considering their career options today.

Read: Women In Tech: Andreea Brescan, Director of Casino Services, Duetto


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Daniel Lofton, Director of Hospitality Solutions, Americas

It’s rare in life to find someone who can honestly say they love their job. We are lucky here at Duetto in that we have a whole team of dedicated people who are passionate about revenue management and genuinely love what they do day, after day. We think that’s pretty special. 

One shining example of this is Daniel Lofton, Director of Hospitality Solutions, specifically handling the North American West Coast. He has been with Duetto for four years, having discovered a love of hospitality and revenue management back in college. Here he tells us what attracted him to this particular discipline, what led him to Duetto and why he loves what he does so much. 

Read: Doing Exceptional Things Every Day


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Hannah Weller Barrise is Director of Hospitality Solutions, Americas

Hannah Weller Barrise joined Duetto in early March 2020, bringing to the team a decade of revenue management experience, including time building contemporary hotel brand The Hoxton in North America.

We caught up with her to find out more about her on-property experience and how she has settled into her role here at Duetto. 

Read: Revenue = Strategy + Analysis + Math + Art


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Juan Ruano, Director of Hospitality Solutions, EMEA

Juan Ruano, Director of Hospitality Solutions for EMEA, pulls on his experience working for big hotel names such as The Savoy and Mandarin Oriental in helping our clients.

We caught up with him to find out all about his current role at Duetto, and how his prior on-property experience is helping him and his team help hoteliers to navigate through the current situation.

Read: The Right Resources, Attitude and Approach Give Hotels Competitive Advantage


Tasneem Mukadam, Director of Customer Success, APAC

Tas Duetto PicTasneem Mukadam joined Duetto in November 2019 to work with our clients in Asia Pacific. An experienced hotelier, and one of the smiliest people we’ve ever had on the team, she has become a pillar of support for our customers in APAC in recent months.

Here, we catch up to discover how Tasneem came to join Duetto, and her wide-ranging experiences in hospitality, from Disney, to London’s COMO Metropolitan, a regional role in APAC with COMO Hotels and Resorts, and now Duetto.

Read: Tasneem Mukadam: From Disney to Duetto

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Sarah McCay Tams, Director of Marketing Communications

Sarah joined Duetto in 2015 as a contributing editor covering Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA). In 2017, she was promoted to Director of Content, EMEA, and in 2022 promoted to Director of Marketing Communications. An experienced B2B travel industry journalist, Sarah spent 14 years working in the Middle East, most notably as senior editor – hospitality for ITP Publishing Group in Dubai, where she headed up the editorial teams on Hotelier Middle East, Caterer Middle East and Arabian Travel News. Sarah is now based back in the UK.

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