Kelly LeftherisLeftheris began her distinguished career at New York-based Affinia Hotel Group in 1990, where she worked as a sales representative for the company’s Manhattan portfolio and later as corporate sales manager. In 1996, she began working as sales manager for Crowne Plaza Times Square, where over the next five years, she rose to director of sales for the hotel, leading a team of 15. She was subsequently hired as director of sales and marketing at Crowne Plaza Clark, N.J. to spearhead a team that reinvented the hotel’s brand. Leftheris graduated with a bachelor’s degree in hospitality management from East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania, where she competed on the varsity volleyball team. When away from work, she enjoys fitness, reading, exploring the “big city,” and spending time with her husband and two children in Westfield, N.J.