About Us

Leslie J. Mack – Leslie has 25 years of customer service and management experience in the hotel, entertainment, retail and tourism industries. She has demonstrated her talent at anticipating needs, developing and simplifying procedures, and finding innovative and profitable solutions to complex problems. Leslie has been a ticket office manager and event accountant for stadiums, convention centers, and theaters for major promoters and venues like the City of Orlando CentroPlex and CAPA in Columbus, Ohio. She was the regional manager for major retail operations like Hallmark, a hotel night manager and trainer in night auditing procedures for Wellesley Inns, and a graphic researcher and photographer in the educational departments’ multimedia productions for the Ohio Historical Society. Leslie represents the Hotel Industry on the Shelter Committee at the All Hazards Consortium in Washington D.C. She pitched FindShelterNow at Startup Weekend Columbus and was one of the winning startup concepts.

 

Lawrence E. Adams – Larry is a long time IT and business practitioner with a passion for desktop technology and decision support systems. Larry’s career includes database administration, data center management, information systems development, management reporting and analysis, financial forecasting, and strategic planning. Currently a Senior Consultant Process Management with Nationwide Insurance, Larry has prior experience with Shared Medical Systems and Chemical Abstracts Service. MS Information Science, Georgia Institute of Technology; BS Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University. Larry built our collaboration web site, complete with forums, wikis and comments, using Expression Engine and he found the incredible ROI for hotels and investors in HOTELTechSystems. 

Our advisers are the hotels themselves.

Hotel Adviser - Jim Heinen – Jim has 30 years’ experience with Marriott International as Chairman, Marriott Business Council, Regional Director, and General Manager, spans sales, marketing, human resources, education, training, startup, branding and re-branding, growth, and crisis planning. Jim is now the General Manager at South Campus Gateway / CBRE. South Campus Gateway is an urban mixed-use project with retail, entertainment, residential and office uses. 

 

FEMA Adviser - Anthony McDermott – Tony is the Director of Product Development and Marketing at Priority5. Tony brings over 18 years of management experience including five years as CEO of successful startup companies. Prior to founding Priority5, Tony played a vital role in the development of critical infrastructure exercises for the United States government and private sector stakeholders. Tony served in the U.S. Coast Guard, is a FEMA certified ICS (incident command system) expert, and has participated in major disaster response operations ranging from oil spills to hurricanes. Tony is a successful visionary with a track record of migrating concepts to profits.

 

Contact:

Leslie J. Mack
Founder
lmack@HOTELTechSystems.com
Columbus, OH