John McGinnes

John is the Executive Director of Sales for the #1 Reno-Tahoe resort ranked by TripAdvisor in Northern Nevada.  An active member of hotel sales for 30 years, McGinnes knows how to lead a team to success. He started his career in Reno, Nevada, where in a span of four years worked his way up from parking cars to leading the charge in hotel sales for 16 years at the Eldorado Hotel Casino. A hotel sales leadership role in the Midwest with one of the largest hotel chains in the world, Intercontinental Hotel Group (IHG) took McGinnes away from Reno for four years where he lead a sales Team to drive revenues for two corporate & convention hotels. In 2016 the Silver State beckoned him back to lead the sales Team at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa.

Career Accomplishments

McGinnes is a graduate of Monmouth College (Monmouth, Illinois) with a BA in Communications, as well as, earning his commission as a Field Artillery officer in the U.S. Army. He has spent his career in the hospitality industry building great teams—a skill he says was honed in the military. He spent eight years in the U.S. Army Reserve & Army National Guard. McGinnes finds that applying military strategy to all aspects of hospitality works well: Define the objective; make sure your team has the resources to complete the mission; clear their path of obstacles; and, most importantly, understand the level of each team member’s strengths. McGinnes is also the Secretary & board member of the Regional Air Service Corporation (RASC) which operates independently from the Reno-Tahoe International Airport, providing incentives to maintain and grow air-service and to promote the Reno-Tahoe area as a year-round leisure travel destination as well as a hub for the expanding business community and convention & meeting destination. In addition, he served as a three-term President for the Reno-Tahoe Chapter of SKÄL International, the world’s largest hospitality organization from 2019 thru 2021.