Sales Staff

Jeffrey B. Halpern, CHME
President

Jeff Halpern has been a hotel sales executive for over 35 years. He has served in multi-property/Vice Presidential positions for Americana Hotels, Omni/Dunfey Hotels, and Prime Hospitality. Mr. Halpern's experience includes direct sales positions in virtually all types of domestic and international hotels, as well as operational and management roles.

Shannon K. Yacoobi
Sr. Vice President

Shannon Yacoobi began her hotel career in Catering Management before moving to room sales at JFK Airport. She joined Rooms Unlimited in 1993 and now oversees our airline, training, and much of our specialty sales efforts. Shannon was instrumental in the development of several of our current customer segments as well as pioneering our disaster relief sales efforts.

Danny Odell
Sr. Vice President

Danny Odell first joined Rooms Unlimited in 1995 to work with our corporate training accounts. Through the years, he has developed much of our Specialty Project work, and is a key to our disaster relief sales efforts. There are few if any weather events in the U.S. that Danny does not get involved in on Rooms Unlimited’s behalf. Danny has been on property with such brand name hotels as Crowne Plaza, Radisson, and Hilton.

Lisa D'Alessandro
National Sales Director

Lisa D’Alessandro joined Rooms Unlimited from positions in the restaurant/hospitality field in 1996, initially taking on many of the organizational functions necessary to help grow our then somewhat new company. Her multi-administrative roles at IBM/Tivoli made her ideally suited to move quickly into her current position as National Sales Director, now specializing in the complex needs of the extended stay Government per diem market in addition to her disaster relief sales efforts.