McDonough School of Business

Tania Galarza (MBA’05)

Tania is the Senior Director, Marketing Strategy & Performance for Marriott International. Over her career, she’s worked in varied industries such as financial services, consulting and hospitality. With a passion for strategy and marketing, Tania has positioned organizations to best serve their customers and stakeholders. To do so, she has worked closely with leadership to align on priorities and find solutions to business challenges. Her achievements have ranged from building multi-year strategic plans to developing customer centric go-to-market strategies for multi-brand portfolios that drive the business today and for the future.

Since 2012, Tania has worked at Marriott’s global headquarters in Bethesda, MD. Her focus has been supporting the Marketing organization in meeting its vision by managing direct reports, cross functional teams, consultants and agencies. Driving strategy at Marriott, Tania currently helps Marketing leadership align global priorities for investing enterprise wide marketing dollars. Her global role seeks to ensure alignment across brands and continent teams to execute a consistent go-to-market approach.

Outside of her daily work, Tania serve as a board member of the Marriott Employee Federal Credit Union whose mission is to deliver affordable financial services to all Marriott employees and their families. She’s also a member of the MAAC’s Mentorship subcommittee.