Estelle Le Blanc

HONOLULU, OAHU, HAWAII — Bill Sthay, Vice President of Interactive Commerce, is pleased to announce that Estelle Le Blanc has joined Outrigger Enterprises Group as Manager, Interactive Commerce. In her new role, Le Blanc will work closely with the company’s web design and development company, opus: creative, and other Internet marketing consultants, as well as Outrigger's various business units on brand development, e-marketing solutions, planning and implementation. Le Blanc will work remotely from her home in Portland, Oregon.

Le Blanc comes with an extensive background in interactive project management having been an integral member of the opus: creative team for the past five years. Le Blanc first joined opus: creative as Senior Project Manager in 2001, and was promoted to Director of Project Management two years later. Prior to opus, Le Blanc spent two years as Project Manager with the interactive company Emerald Solutions, where she was involved in a variety of web projects involving brand identity, user-interface development, and back-end integration.

Le Blanc is no stranger to Outrigger. While with opus:creative, Le Blanc was involved in two evolutions of Outrigger’s main websites; outrigger.com and ohanahotels.com. She also skillfully guided the opus team on development of waikikibeachwalk.com and has been the project lead on the soon-to-launch Embassy Suites®-Waikiki Beach Walk website.

Le Blanc earned a degree in Chinese and Business Administration from the University of Oregon. She has also earned her Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute.

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About Outrigger Enterprises Group | Outrigger Enterprises Group is one of the largest and fastest-growing hospitality services companies in the Pacific. Outrigger is a family-owned company with nearly 60 years of hospitality experience and runs a highly-successful, multi-branded line of hotels, condominiums and vacation ownership resorts, including Outrigger Hotels & Resorts, OHANA Hotels & Resorts, Outrigger Condominium Collection, Outrigger Resort Club by Fairfield and Embassy Suites®-Waikiki Beach Walk®*. Outrigger Enterprises also operates and develops hotel properties and hospitality-related retail and real estate opportunities for partners in Hawaii, the Pacific, the mainland USA and Asia. The company's most recent initiative - Waikiki Beach Walk, a $535 million, 8-acre hotel-retail-entertainment complex - is the largest development in the history of Waikiki.

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