A Passion for excellence

Our Team

At MMG Mardiks, our professional team shares your passion for excellence. Our world of industry experience and strategic insight offers clients a powerful, customized partnership. Each account team combines senior-level professionals and specialists at the pulse of breaking trends and developments; all with media relationships allowing us to reach key audiences quickly and effectively.

Key members of MMG Mardiks include:

Charles Mardiks, Managing Director

Charles has spent more than 15 years in the global travel and tourism public relations industry, and has directed brand awareness campaigns for clients such as The Peninsula Hotel Group, Visa, The Intrawest Corporation, Inter-Continental Hotel Group, Radisson SAS Hotels & Resorts and Royal Caribbean International. He recently completed the repositioning of the Hyatt Resorts brand via a comprehensive niche branding campaign, buzz-building events and strategic media outreach. His business-to-business campaigns for Visa U.S.A. effectively positioned the card as the preferred method of payment in the travel agent, lodging, airline, car rental, cruise line and restaurant industries.

With a deft touch for strategic alliances and business-building relationship marketing campaigns, Charles has used his expertise to orchestrate partnerships between the likes of the Hong Kong Tourist Association and American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA), Homewood Suites and Merry Maids, Hotel Le Bristol and Bergdorf Goodman, and Best Western International and Chrysler. He is active in numerous travel industry organizations and sits on the boards of the Pacific Asia Travel Association and the National Academy of Travel and Tourism. He is a graduate of Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communication and School of Management with a dual Bachelor of Science degree in advertising and marketing.

Mara Begley, Senior Media Specialist

Mara’s extensive media and event marketing experience has proven invaluable for launching a number of local and national media initiatives. Successful projects include work for Manhattan East Suite Hotels, Swissotel, The Watergate (Washington, D.C.), Homewood Suites by Hilton, The Benjamin (New York), The Sagamore (New York), The Cornell School of Hotel Administration, Hyatt Resorts and the Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort.

She spent three years on the communications team for Marriott International, and has launched such unprecedented programs as a “Sleep Concierge” at New York’s Benjamin Hotel, and “Driving Literacy Home,” a public service and awareness campaign for Homewood Suites. She has been the public relations architect on new property openings such as Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay, and has led the way on business-building marketing alliances for groups like Shape Magazine and Hyatt Regency Tamaya, New Mexico. Mara recently served as the driving force behind the launch of New York’s premiere Luxury Travel Expo. Mara earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from St. Mary’s College.