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- Kimberly Johnson was named director of sales for the Marriott Hartford Downtown. She most recently served as director of sales and marketing for Interstate Hotels & Resorts… Mohegan Sun Hotel & Casino promoted Clifford Marvin to national sales manager and Florent “Flo” Fougerouse to sales manager within its hotel sales and marketing division. Marvin, a five-year veteran of Mohegan Sun, is responsible for the association and corporate markets in Washington, D.C., and the Southeastern U.S. Fougerouse was most recently the operations manager for New England Hospitality, Mohegan Sun’s off-site destination management company. He is responsible for generating sales in the New England corporate market… The Greater Hartford CVB recently opened a Washington, D.C., sales office to help generate association sales. The Washington, D.C., office is managed by Karen Staples, a national sales manager for the bureau.
New Jersey
- Joseph Reyes was named general manager of the Westminster Hotel in Livingston. Reyes most recently served as general manager of the Shoreham luxury boutique hotel in New York City… The Heldrich, a new property in downtown New Brunswick being developed by Benchmark Hospitality and scheduled to open in March, announced the appointment of Esther Wells as sales manager. Wells was previously sales manager for the Downtown Conference Center, a Benchmark Hospitality property located in New York City.
New York
- Todd Wolfson, CEC, was appointed executive chef and Elizabeth Ramirez was named director of catering for Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center. Chef Wolfson joins the Long Island property from Berry Hill Plantation Resort, a Benchmark Hospitality property located in Virginia. He has worked with such well-known chefs as Wolfgang Puck and Julia Child, and he served in a three-year apprenticeship with Master Chef Stephen Rieger. Ramirez participated in a year-long independent travel and research program previous to her new appointment at Glen Cove Mansion, visiting nine European countries and studying locally authentic food and wines. Prior to her culinary travels, Ramirez was conference services manager for the Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club in Aventura, Fla…Rick Evanich was named general manager of The Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery Park. Evanich joins the Lower Manhattan property from Boston, where he served as general manager of The Ritz-Carlton, Boston Common. He had previously served as general manager of The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park.
Rhode Island
- The Renaissance Providence Hotel, scheduled to open in May, named Thomas Riel as its sales and marketing director and Ann Marie Spatharakis as a sales manager. Riel, who is responsible for developing and implementing the pre- and post-opening sales and marketing programs for the hotel, most recently served as the director of national accounts for the Providence Warwick CVB. Spatharakis’ primary responsibility is to develop the association market segment.