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Kris Singleton è stato nominato Chief Information Officer (CIO) presso Omni Hotels & Resorts

In this role, Singleton will help drive the company’s strategic business objectives by providing the enterprise-wide information technology (IT) vision and leadership for operating a reliable and stable infrastructure, fostering innovation to enhance guest services and operations, and leading the deployment and management of current and emerging technology products, services and systems across the organization. She will report to Mike Deitemeyer, president of Omni Hotels & Resorts. A 24-year veteran of the technology industry, Singleton has more than a decade of experience in the hospitality industry. Most recently she was chief information officer for The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas where she oversaw the technology strategy for the hotel, casino, pool district and other amenities associated with the property. Previously, she held a variety of roles of increasing responsibility, including chief information officer and vice president of technology for Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants and IT vice president of business solutions for MGM Mirage. In addition, Singleton has also served as chief information officer for Chasm Industries, Inc., an electronic recycling company, and spent 15 years at Hallmark Cards, Inc. Singleton earned a Bachelor of Science in business administration, with a double major in computer information systems and management from Central Missouri State University. She is a member of the CIO Council, Hotel Technology Next Generation, Hotel Financial and Technology Professionals, as well as Newmarket and Guest-Tek Customer Advisory Boards.

Omni
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Bhatia Vishwas è stato nominato President & Co-Founder presso Hotelsoft Inc.

Vishwas (Vish) BHATIA IMHI is now the President & Co-Founder of Hotelsoft Inc. a San Francisco Bay Area based company that offers full service revenue management and information technology services to hotels and other travel partners. It has received over $1 million in seed funding. Prior to this Vish was the VP of Revenue Optimization at Aston Hotels & Resorts, overseeing revenue management and distribution for 28 properties. Previously, he held senior leadership positions at Morgan’s Hotel Group, Miami; The Plaza Hotel, New York and at Oberoi Hotels & Resorts. Vish currently also serves on the HSMAI Revenue Management Advisory Board.

ESSEC IMHI
San Francisco, United States
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Barry Shuler è stato designato come Member of the Hospitality Technology Hall of Fame presso Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP)

Barry Shuler was selected as the 2014 inductee to the HFTP International Hospitality Technology Hall of Fame for his role in developing a model for hotel industry enterprise architecture and IT strategic planning. After a long career as a lead technology strategist for Marriott International, Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company and International Hotels Group, he is currently CIO and IT consulting principal with Design Management Associates, Inc. The induction into the Hall of Fame, which is Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals' (HFTP) highest level of recognition in the area of technology, will take place at the 2014 Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC®) on Tuesday, June 24 at 8:30 a.m. at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, Calif. USA.

HFTP
Austin, Texas, United States
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Vinay Dhavala è stato nominato Chief Technology Officer presso TSA Solutions

TSA Solutions, a leading global provider of measurable and sustainable revenue performance enhancing solutions for the hotel industry, announces the appointment of Vinay Dhavala as Chief Technology Officer. Dhavala will lead TSA's Information Division, which continues its rapid expansion in order to serve an ever-increasing portfolio of worldwide hotel partners eager to use TSA services to increase their property RevPAR and financial performance. As the company continues its commitment to significant investment in technologies, Dhavala's appointment will serve to further strengthen the impact of TSA's hotel partner programs. An experienced technology, product and program leader, Dhavala brings to TSA Solutions a wealth of expertise in business solutions architecture with a solid track record of conceptualizing, developing and delivering major software applications.

TSA Solutions
Singapore, Singapore
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Martha Poulter è stato nominato Executive VP & Chief Information Officer presso Starwood Hotels & Resorts

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) today announced the appointment of Martha Poulter, former Chief Information Officer of GE Capital, as the company’s new Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer effective June 23, 2014. Poulter will be a member of Starwood’s Senior Leadership Team and report to President and CEO Frits van Paasschen. She succeeds Roger Berry, who is set to retire in the end of June and will stay on as a consultant to Starwood through year-end to ensure a smooth transition. A 25-year technology veteran, Poulter most recently served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer, GE Capital, with global responsibility for IT strategy and operations leading a 4,000-person global organization. Since joining General Electric in 1995, Poulter held a series of senior information technology leadership positions such as eBusiness Vice President, Quality Leader, and regional Americas Chief Information Officer for GE Capital, where she was responsible for many operational excellence improvements and the completion of key digitization projects, including the Company’s first customer mobile apps for commercial businesses.

Starwood
Kuala Lumpur, New York, Malaysia
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John Pulling è stato nominato Chief Technology Officer presso Lanyon

Lanyon, a leader in global meetings, events, and hospitality technology, today announced the appointment of John Pulling as its Chief Technology Officer. Pulling joins Lanyon shortly after its merger with ACTIVE Network™ Business Solutions and its acquisition of Passkey, an industry leading group reservation technology provider. Lanyon is a portfolio company of Vista Equity Partners, a leading private equity firm focused on long-term value added investments in software and technology-enabled services. Pulling has a deep relationship with Vista Equity Partners, having served as Senior Vice President of Products for BigMachines, a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company that was recently acquired by Oracle. Prior to his role as Senior Vice President of Products at BigMachines, Pulling served as Vice President of Product Management at Infor. In this role, he directed product strategy for the company’s strategic edge applications, such as its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and supply chain, enterprise asset, and product lifecycle management solutions. Prior to Infor, Pulling was Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Provia Software, where he was responsible for all product management, product development, professional services, and support services.

Lanyon
Irving, Texas, United States
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Robert McCarthy è stato designato come Member of the Board presso HandHeld Hospitality LLC

HandHeld Hospitality™, LLC a leading forerunner in mobile technology for hotels, announced today the board appointment and investment partnership with Bob McCarthy, COO of Marriott International, Inc., who has announced his retirement from Marriott, effective February 2014. HandHeld Hospitality is also collaborating with AT&T to introduce its SmartGuest™ app to the hospitality industry. “Bob brings a wealth of knowledge and insight into improved guest satisfaction and revenue optimization through mobile technology,” said Elmer Coppoolse, CEO of HandHeld Hospitality. “His expertise combined with HandHeld’s advanced technology in developing breakthrough apps make a powerful team.”

HandHeld Hospitality LLC
Vienna, Virginia, United States
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Mike Blake, CIO at Commune Hotels & Resorts si è unito a StayNTouch come Member of the Board of Directors

StayNTouch Inc., a developer of next-generation cloud-based staff & guest mobility solutions for hotels, is pleased to announce that Mike Blake, CIO at Commune Hotels + Resorts has joined the StayNTouch Board of Directors. With more than 20 years of experience in finance and technology, Mike is currently CIO at Commune Hotels where he provides strategic leadership and perspective contributing to the ongoing evolution of Commune's global IT functions for the brands Joie De Vivre Hotels, Thompson Hotels and Tommie Hotels. Prior, Mike served as CIO at Hyatt Hotels Corporation, as Senior Vice President of IT for First Data, VP of IT Finance at Kaiser Permanente, and Director of IT Finance for Sears. In each of these roles, he was the highest ranking IT Finance resource and a key advisor to national senior leadership teams. Prior to that, Mike was Director of Financial Planning for United Airlines. He has an MBA in Finance and Economics from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and an MS in Information Technology from Northwestern University. Mike is based in the Bay Area.

Commune
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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Floor Bleeker è stato nominato Chief Information Officer presso Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts

Prior to joining Mövenpick Hotels and Resorts, Floor Bleeker was Vice President Business Solutions at the Jumeirah Group, Mr. Bleeker worked as Director of IT for the Emirates Academy of Hospitality Management in Dubai (UAE) and as an IT Manager for the Radisson SAS regional office in Brussels (Belgium). He worked in different IT positions in Europe, the United States and the Caribbean. Mr. Bleeker holds a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) with a Marketing specialisation from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and a Bachelors (BSc) degree in Hospitality Administration with a Finance specialisation from the Hotel School The Hague. He is currently serving on the Board of Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG), the world’s leading hospitality technology trade association and holds a number of advisory board positions for other non-profit organisations. Mr. Bleeker is living in Dubai with his wife Anne and daughter Lauren.

Mövenpick
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Kirk Coleman è stato nominato Director of Corporate Information Technology presso Pyramid Global Hospitality

Benchmark Hospitality International®, a leading U.S.-based hospitality management company, has named Kirk Coleman director of corporate information technology. Gerald Lampaert, vice president of information technology, made the announcement. Mr. Coleman is based in Benchmark's Home Office in The Woodlands, Texas, near Houston.A native Houstonian, Kirk Coleman joined Benchmark Hospitality in 2011 as information technology manager with portfolio-wide IT responsibilities. He served as regional Texas director of information technology for Destination Hotels & Resorts prior his employment with Benchmark.

Pyramid Global Hospitality
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Bill Rose è stato designato come Chief Information Officer (CIO) presso Pegasus

Pegasus Solutions has named Bill Rose chief information officer. The company’s former senior vice president of IT Global Services was appointed to the position by chief executive officer David Millili to help Pegasus’ nearly 100,000 global hotel clients focus on the future. Rose joined Pegasus in 2010 with more than 25 years of technical IT experience. As senior vice president of IT Global Services, he has overseen enterprise architecture and quality assurance, product management, infrastructure and operations, and reservation systems development. Prior to Pegasus, Rose served as vice president at Avnet, Inc. He also spent a total of 20 years working within the global Coca-Cola business system in various positions, ultimately managing all global custom development for Coca-Cola Enterprises.

Pegasus
New York, New York, United States
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Bridget Ryder è stato designato come Vice President of Information Technology presso Fontainebleau Miami Beach

Ryder brings nearly 30 years of experience to the position, including 20 years working in both accounting and information technology at major resort properties in the Bahamas, such as Atlantis Paradise Island. In addition, Ryder served at Republic Services, a publicly traded $8 billion corporation where she was a senior direct report to the Chief Information Officer responsible for a major merger in Information Technology platform consolidation and transition to a new organization. Most recently, she worked at BTR Consulting Group in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. as Program Manager for IT Transformation and also assisted in software selection and implementation. She earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from the Fisher School of Accounting at University of Florida.

Fontainebleau Miami Beach
Miami Beach, Florida, United States
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Les Ottolenghi è stato nominato Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer presso Las Vegas Sands Corp.

Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS) announced today that Les Ottolenghi will join the company as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. He will be responsible for overseeing the company's technology innovation strategies and infrastructure delivery on a global basis. Les will start with the company on June 17 and will report to Company President and Chief Operating Officer, Michael A. Leven.While creating and building technology organizations over the last fifteen years, Mr. Ottolenghi has earned a reputation for innovative and impactful technology products and solutions. Since 2004, Mr. Ottolenghi has successfully co-founded three technology companies after leading technology in CIO roles at Agentware from 1999 to 2003 and Carlson Wagonlit Travel from 1996 to 1998. His early experiences in innovating and deploying technology at Carlson Wagonlit Travel and Holiday Inn Worldwide were at the forefront of the hospitality industries growth via web- based reservations systems and tools.

Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Yu Jin è stato designato come VP Technology and Chief Information Officer presso Delta Hotels and Resorts

In this role, Jin will assume the overall responsibility for the continued development, guidance and refinement of Delta's information technology initiatives and processes. Jin has over 16 years of global leadership experience where she successfully implemented enterprise systems in a variety of functional areas and oversaw overall IT operation, most recently with Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts where she was Vice President of Information Technology.

Delta
Toronto, Canada
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David Sjolander è stato designato come Chief Operating Officer presso Hospitality Technology Next Generation (HTNG) - AHLA

Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG), the membership association that unites the world's hospitality companies and technology innovators to solve industry challenges, today announced the appointment of David Sjolander, CHTP as its Chief Operating Officer. As COO, Sjolander will be responsible for driving the operational execution of HTNG's mission, reporting to Douglas Rice, Executive Vice President and CEO. avid Sjolander possesses broad hotel technology experience, including product development and management, distribution, IT operations, strategy, and business development. Prior to joining HTNG, he was the Vice President of Product Management, Distribution Services for Pegasus Solutions, provider of the system that connects 90,000 hotels worldwide to over 1,000 online distribution channels. In addition to Pegasus, he has held executive positions at hotel technology companies including TravelClick, Fidelio and Hotel Information Systems.

HTNG
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Gerald Lampaert è stato nominato Vice President of Information Technology presso Pyramid Global Hospitality

Gerald Lampaert comes to Benchmark Hospitality with a diverse and highly successful career in Information Technology. In addition to holding senior management positions for global organizations, he has launched his own companies specializing in information technology, most recently Hospitality Technology Services, an IT consulting firm with clients in multiple countries.

Pyramid Global Hospitality
Boston, Massachusetts, United States