Ms. Ochoa

Grazia Sorice Ochoa

Senior Category Director

Travel Category, Yahoo! Search Marketing

Grazia Sorice Ochoa joined Yahoo! Search Marketing in June 2005, bringing 7 years of online travel and search marketing experience to her position as Senior Category Director, Travel. In this role, Grazia's primary goal is to develop and implement the company's travel category initiatives aimed at helping top tier travel companies maximize the effectiveness of their search marketing campaigns. Prior to joining Yahoo! Search Marketing, Ms. Ochoa was Director of Marketing for Lodging.com (a Cendant company) where she managed all consumer marketing efforts, including a multi-million dollar search campaign. She was also the Director of Vacation Rentals while at Cendant and prior to that held positions as VP Marketing with Viator and eGulliver, where she was a co-founder. Ms. Ochoa earned an MBA from Emory Business School and a BA in English & Economics from Denison University.

Ms. Ochoa can be contacted at Grazia@Yahoo-Inc.Com

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Hotel Sustainable Development: Principles and Best Practices
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