The Palace Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel in San Francisco, appointed Lilian Tolliver as Chief Engineer of the 556 room historic property. The Palace is very proud of Lilian as she accepts the position as the hotel's first female Chief Engineer and continues to make history at the iconic landmark.
McKibbon Hospitality, an award-winning leader in hotel management is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Weejen Lynch as Vice President of Engineering.
Pendry Chicago is proud to announce the appointment of Mario Orrico Jr. as Director of Engineering, to the leadership team of the hotel, slated to open its doors late spring 2021.
Sigita is a veteran of 18 years at the Arora Group, where she worked her way up from room attendant to Executive Housekeeper of the Heathrow Hotels. Sigita's passion for her profession will make every guest feel like royalty from the moment they step into the building.
The Seattle-based employee safety solution provider welcomes a new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to its Engineering and Leadership team. Riley Eller has been involved with technology and security since the beginning of his 30-year career. He has applied his skills in places like Unium (formerly known as CoCo), where he was a part of a successful acquisition to Nokia in 2018. His recent role as the CTO of Rubica, involved leading engineering and security teams in the cybersecurity space to protect data from real-time threats. He is a contributor to several inventions and patents and is recognized for his technology expertise. At React Mobile, Riley manages and supports the development of a modern employee safety solution's hardware and software elements. He leads the company with a custom lean manufacturing process that outputs a reliable and high-quality safety solution. He has defined innovative plans to improve the existing employee safety solution and expand our technology partner integrations. Some of the plans focus on enhancing the locator service, reducing the meantime to respond, and expanding immediate incident alerting and resolution options. Besides being passionate about employee safety, Riley takes much interest in the digital transformation: from hardware forward and reverse engineering, through the operating system and driver implementation, to application algorithm design, into machine-derived solution science, with international recognition for incredible depth in internet security. His credits include the Black Hat Security Briefings and Training series, "Meet the Enemy" seminars, the books Hack Proofing Your Network: Internet Tradecraft (Syngress, ISBN: 1-928994-15-6), and a founding member of the only team ever to win the DEF CON Capture the Flag content, the world's most prestigious hacking competition, three times in a row.
Jason Reid has over 20 years of contact center experience that he leverages to provide a consultative approach to the needs of Cloud5 clients and his teams. Most recently Jason served as President of One Contact, Inc. His leadership has spanned Sales, Operations and Account Development teams at both large and niche contact center providers including Bill Gosling Outsourcing and Concentrix.
Schmidt has been a Westin Riverfront team member for the past four years, starting at the Front Desk and moving up to serve as a Guest Service Manager. He previously worked at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Flagstaff and The Lodge & Spa at Cordillera. A graduate of the International Hotel & Restaurant Management program at Northern Arizona University's W.A. Franke College of Business, Schmidt volunteers with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.
Claudia originally from Sardinia Italy, has been with the property one year already holding the position as Guest Relations Manager. Prior to that she spent four years in London where she started as a Receptionist at Hilton until leaving as Guest Relations Manager at InterContinental London - The O2.In her new role Claudia will oversee front office, concierge and the pool while working with th e relevant departments to drive new projects, incremental revenue & overall guest satisfaction and creating memorable moments for the guests.
Gregersen joined Montage from The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe where he was the Director of Engineering. He's also served a previous role in Sonoma wine country, working with Fairmont Mission Inn & Spa.
Prior to joining Montage Healdsburg, Pagano was the Director of Rooms at Fairmont Grand Del Mar in San Diego, Calif. and held previous roles at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, including Grande Lakes in Orlando, Fla. and the brand's San Francisco property.
Dat, who was born in Hanoi, studied hotel operations at Hanoi Tourism College before graduating in 1997 to become a food and beverage attendant at the Sheraton Hanoi Hotel and Towers. He rose up the ranks with the Sofitel Plaza Hotel, Sunway Hotel Hanoi, Silk Path Hotel Hanoi, InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort, Hotel de l'Opera Hanoi - MGallery, Vinpearl Luxury Nha Trang Resort, and Lotte The Residence and Lotte Center Hanoi.
As SVP, Engineering Lim will be responsible for scaling Duetto's revenue strategy platform.
Cem Tanyel has been named executive vice president, chief services officer, of a newly formed professional services, consulting and support organization that brings together the company's delivery and care teams together under his leadership. Tanyel's centralized organization is not only designed to generate efficiencies and improve productivity in the care and delivery of Sabre's products but is also critical to the company's success with responsibility to deliver world-class professional services alongside its products.
Shaju Kozhiparambil has been named as Radisson Blu Hotel, Ajman's new chief engineer, using his 19 years of experience in the senior position.
He assumes his new position with over13 years of experience. He began his journey in hospitality in 2007 as the service manager of Radisson Hotel Dubai Deira Creek. He then joined Ramada Jumeirah Hotel as front office manager in 2012 and later became a member of the pre-opening team for DAMAC Hospitality, where he took the lead as front office manager.
Lindsay Gilmour, Guest Services Manager - Lindsay is no newcomer to the Marriott brand, having honed her management skills as a Management Trainee at the Courtyard by Marriott and a Guest Service Associate at Marriott Grande Vista Resort in Orlando. She completed the brand's award-winning, global leadership program, Voyage, and gained expertise in various, guest experience software systems. Lindsay earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Central Florida and completed the Hospitality Management program at Rosen College.
Mallory Brendmoen, Sales & Catering Manager - Mallory brings extensive event planning, banquet management, and hospitality sales experience to her new role. Mallory's most recent post was as Director of Banquets and Private Events for the esteemed, century-old Lakeland Country Club, before which she spent a year as Catering and Events Sales Manager for Florida Southern College. She earned her Bachelor's in Hospitality Management from the University of Central Florida.
The Kessler Collection, a portfolio of artistically-inspired luxury boutique hotels, named Haley Sanger as Director of Sales & Catering of the brand new Grand Bohemian Hotel Charlotte, located in uptown Charlotte, N.C. In this role, Sanger will lead an experienced team of sales and service managers to consistently meet and exceed budgeted catering and group sales goals for the hotel.
The Fife Arms, Braemar is delighted to announce the appointment of Andrew Seward as their new Head Concierge. Bringing over a decade of experience into the role, Andrew will work with guests to create tailor-made experiences to ensure an unforgettable stay in the Highlands.
Pooja Rajpurohit has been appointed as the Associate Director of Events for Park Hyatt Hyderabad, one of the leaders in the luxury hospitality sector in Hyderabad. Ms. Rajpurohit holds nearly a decade's worth of work experience in the field of Event Sales, specializing in Weddings. She has previously been associated with brands such as Pratima, EMC, Leela, Hyatt and Marriott. She holds Service Excellence & Sales Workshop Certificates from Leela & Marriott.