Steve Buckler has been appointed General Manager at Hyatt Place Braintree
The 204-room Hyatt Place Boston/Braintree hotel, anticipated to open in May of 2012, today announced that Steve Buckler has joined as general manager. Buckler brings with him 40 years of hospitality sales and operations experience, most recently as vice president, sales and marketing, for Broughton Hospitality Group and prior to that, as vice president, sales and marketing, for Pan Pacific Hotels & Resorts. His operations experience includes leadership-level positions as general manager at the Pan Pacific Hotel in San Diego and as a regional vice president of marketing and operations for three four-star hotels in Australia, New Zealand and Vanuatu, in addition to corporate sales and marketing responsibility in the South Pacific Region. Buckler has also held director-level sales and marketing positions, including leading a sales and marketing team during a 650-room expansion and repositioning of a luxury hotel in San Diego, and opening three four-star Hyatt hotels in Baltimore, Orlando and Atlanta.
