Member Spotlight: Daniel Rush

Organization: MGM Resorts International

Email: drush@mgmresorts.com

LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieljrush1868/

Other than improving your Zoom Meeting skills, what have you learned (or learned to excel in professionally) since COVID-19 began?
How resilient I am as well as how resilient our industry is.   

Who are you outside of work?
Father, son, brother, uncle, fraternity brother, golfer, and sports fan.

Name a silver lining in your own work experience since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
A primary of focus of my job is to bring sports related meetings & events to our hotels and venues.  When everything else shut down, youth sports continued to operate.  Kids want to play.  Building this morning 8 years ago really showed benefits during that time.

What is your proudest professional accomplishment to date?
Hosting the 2023 NCAA Men’s Basketball West Regionals.  Booking the 2024 Super Bowl.

What are some of your favorite things about being an MPI member?
The contacts I have made and the network I have built since being involved with MPI is second to none.

When do you plan to go on your next vacation and where do you want to go?
End of June 2023.  We are traveling to Hawaii.   

What is the greatest place you have ever visited? 
ITALY BY FAR!

Something people don’t know about you.
I have a BA in Communications from Cal State Northridge and a BS in Hotel Management from UNLV.  I am huge fan of reality TV and ride my Peloton daily.