Nicole Beyrich has been promoted to global sales director of Benchmark Hospitality International. Beyrick was most recently Benchmark’s regional accounts director focusing on the Midwest market. She previously held senior sales positions for Chicagoland’s DuPage Convention & Visitor Bureau, The Herrington Inn & Spa in Geneva, Ill., and with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.
Here’s a look at more notable comings and goings in hospitality that took place this week:
Nemacolin Woodlands Resort has appointed Monte F. Hansen as managing director of the 2,000-acre luxury Pennsylvania resort. Hansen has more than 15 years of hotel executive experience and luxury hotel management.
Conrad Hotels and Resorts appointed Joshua Jenkins as director of business travel of the 20-story luxury hotel opening in summer 2016. Jenkins will oversee business travel sales efforts as well as its frequent independent traveler markets across the U.S.
The new Hilton Cleveland Downtown has appointed executive chef Maxime Kien to oversee all culinary operations at the 600-room, convention style hotel scheduled to open June 1.
Steve Ehrhardt has assumed chairmanship of the IHG Owners Association’s Board of Directors for 2016. Ehrhardt is owner and operator of Ehrhardt Properties and SJS Hospitality, operating 11 hotels in Missouri and Oklahoma, and is part of a family business that includes a portfolio of 27 hotels. Most recently, he has held positions as global board director and officer of the Owners Association.
L.E. Hotels has chosen Kerry Cooper as vice president of business development, with more than 20 years of experience in the hospitality industry.
Veteran hotelier Jeffrey Burrell has been named general manager of New Castle Hotels & Resorts’ 289-room and suite, Westin Portland Harborview in Portland, Maine. Burrell was most recently the general manager of the AAA four-diamond, Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa in Avon, Colo., which he opened in 2008.
Horwath Hotel Travel & Leisure has announced the appointment of Andrew Cohan as managing director of the new Horwath HTL Miami office. With a decade of hospitality valuation and consulting experience in the telecom sector, negotiating with the largest service providers in Latin America, he will be responsible for overseeing HTL’s business development and consulting activities in Miami as well as Latin America and the Caribbean.
Hunter Hotel Advisors has appointed two new senior executives, Robert Taylor and Stephen Gaylor, to their investment sales and capital market groups. As senior vice president, Taylor will be responsible for both single asset and portfolio transactions specializing in hotels and resorts in South Florida. As senior vice president-capital markets, Gaylor will expand all of Hunter’s programs for sourcing and placing hotel real estate debt, as well as and sourcing equity for new transactions.
The Gettys Group has appointed Emmanuel Shamoun director of the firm’s consulting group, and Bonnie Boyer as senior project manager of the global hospitality design firm specializing in interior design, consulting, branding, and procurement.
Carl Weldon will join Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals as its chief operations officer in Europe, beginning in March 2016. Weldon is currently the chief executive of the hospitality professionals association and is principal of his own consultancy business, CW Hospitality, and has more than 20 years of experience in hospitality finance, technology, and operations.
