The President by Akaryn in Vientiane, Laos named Chris Adams as general manager.
Puerto Rican-based International Hospitality Enterprises appointed Francisco Blanch as director of sales and marketing for La Concha Resort. Blanch most recently served as director of leisure sales at the Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood Beach, Florida.
DoubleTree by Hilton New Orleans appointed Kristina Bourgeois director of sales and marketing. Bourgeois comes to DoubleTree following her tenure at both Hilton New Orleans Riverside and Embassy Suites by Hilton New Orleans.
Scotland-based Ednam House appointed Peter Daniel Carr as head chef. Carr previously worked at the Wheatsheaf Hotel and Restaurant in Swinton, Scotland where he also held the position of head chef.
SBE appointed Daniel Entenberg as general manager of New York’s SLS Park Avenue, scheduled to open in spring. Prior to his current role, he spent over three years leading Gramercy Park Hotel.
Minor Hotels named Ramzy Fenianos as vice president development for Europe, Middle East & Africa.
Kimpton Hotel Vintage Portland named Noni Hughes as general manager. Hughes comes to Kimpton from Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, Washington where she served as assistant general manager for six years.
Colorado-based Gateway Canyons Resort & Spa named Stephen Johnson as general manager. Previously, Johnson served as a task force general manager at the Sante Fe, New Mexico property The Inn & Spa at Loretto.
Luxury resort community Christophe Harbour appointed Barnaby Jones as executive chef and Claudio Corallo as director of food and beverage.
M&R Hotel Management appointed Z.B. Moham, a 25-year lodging veteran, as area general manager to oversee two of its four hotels near John F. Kennedy International Airport: the 73-room Days Inn Jamaica – JFK Airport and the 87-room Best Western JFK Airport Hotel.
Crescent Hotels & Resorts named Raul Moronta as senior vice president of revenue management. Prior to joining Crescent Hotels & Resorts, he served as Director of Revenue Management for Starwood Hotels & Resorts and Hersha Hospitality Management.
Kimpton Hotel Monaco Denver named two leaders to its team: Victoria Noe as director of catering and Brittany Gripp as group sales manager.
Edgar Ollé joined Marriott International as development director for Spain and Portugal. Prior to joining Marriott, Ollé was development manager in Spain and Portugal with Hilton Worldwide for almost five years.
Dream Hollywood appointed Mary Joy Ong-Newberry as the director of finance, Angie Law as director of revenue management, and Kari Schlagheck as director of human resources.
New York’s Time Nyack added three executives to its management team: Marie Palomba as director of sales, Tina Mazzullo as lead sales manager, and Anjali Sharma as director of revenue management.
Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants named Nick Rimedio as general manager of the La Peer Hotel, expected to open in Los Angeles in summer.
California’s Rancho Valencia Resort & Spa’s appointed Katie Rooney as regional group sales manager. Previously she held the position of senior national sales manager for the Inn at Rancho Santa Fe, in San Diego.
Australia’s Pan Pacific Perth appointed Sheena Shee as sales and marketing director. For the last 6 years, Shee was the former head of international markets at WA Tourism, responsible for four core markets: China, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea.
Daniel Amadeus Steinke will now oversee operations and strategy at both The Aleenta Resort and Spa Phuket and the Akyra Beach Club Phuket.
Roland Svensson was named general manager of Vietnam resort Amiana on the Bay. Prior to this role, Svensson worked in a number of international properties, including as general manager with Myanmar’s Novotel Mandalay and Thailand’s Royal Garden Resort Hua Hin and The Montien Hotel Bangkok.
Marcus Hotels & Resorts’ Grand Geneva Resort & Spa appointed Gordon Tareta as spa director of WELL Spa + Salon. Tareta has also been named the director of spas for Marcus Hotels & Resorts and will develop the Well Spa + Salon brand.
One&Only appointed three execs to the One&Only Palmilla resort in Los Cabos. Larry Tsoumas joins as director of sales and marketing, Angela Lockyer as director of sales, and Eric Scianimanico as executive chef of SEARED by One&Only in collaboration with Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten.
Kimpton Hotel Palomar San Diego appointed Terra Williams as associate director of sales. Prior to relocating back to San Diego in 2015, Terra spent two years as a Sales Manager at Kimpton Hotel Van Zandt and a year as Sales Manager at Omni Barton Creek in Austin, Texas.
Nicole Young was appointed corporate director of revenue management by Rosewood Hotels & Resorts. Previously, Nicole held leadership positions at both SBE Hotel Group, where she led the revenue and sales functions through seven hotel openings in four years, as well as at Loews Hotels and Resorts.
Cancun’s Grand Fiesta Americana Coral Beach appointed Sergio Zarate as executive chef. Previously, Zarate held executive chef positions at resorts throughout the region including Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Mayakoba, and collaborated at AAA Five Diamond restaurants, such as The Club Grill and Fantino at The Ritz Carlton.
Pan Pacific Hotels Group appointed Thomas Zhong as vice president of operations support and pre-openings. He was most recently director for performance management at the Singapore corporate office of Raffles Hotels and Resorts where he spent a total of five years.
Rebranded Akyra Thonglor Bangkok appointed Christian Oliver Zunk as the property’s general manager.