She managed the marketing for the existing casino and planned for the new casino, which opened about the time she left her position there. Odawa Casino Resort was looking to build a satellite casino in Mackinaw City. The casino’s footprint was similar to Cherokee Casino in West Siloam Springs.

In January 2015, she moved to Michigan to work as director of marketing for Odawa Casino Resort. “I oversaw the rewards program and worked with creative services in the agency as a liaison between the properties and the science of getting the creative materials done,” she said. In January 2013, she accepted a broader marketing role for Cherokee Casino, working with marketing managers at outlying properties on planning and development, and bridging the relationship between the properties and the corporate marketing structure. When the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal named her to the Forty Under 40 class in 2012, she was director of marketing for Cherokee Casino & Hotel in West Siloam Springs, Okla. She has worked for casinos since at least 2008, which was when she joined Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Catoosa, Okla. Erickson, 44, oversees about 20 employees and is responsible for Choctaw Casino & Resort – Pocola (Okla.) and casinos in Oklahoma travel plazas in Heavener, Poteau, Pocola and Stigler. In February, the Las Vegas native joined Choctaw Casinos & Resorts as regional director of marketing. “Then & Now” is a profile of a past member of the Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 class.īritta Erickson has helped casinos develop their brand for more than a decade. 23 issue of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal. Editor’s Note: The following story appeared in the Nov.

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