California
- Crestline Hotels & Resorts appointed Linda Cahue director of sales and marketing for the Wyndham Palm Springs hotel, which is being rebranded the Renaissance Palm Springs Hotel at the Convention Center. Cahue previously served as director of sales and marketing for the Marriott Houston Airport. She brings more than 20 years of hospitality industry sales and marketing experience to her new role, having also held management positions with InterContinental Hotels, Doubletree Hotels, Horizons Meetings, Omni Hotels and Adam’s Mark Hotels… Meryl Kirschenberg was named director of sales and marketing at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco and area director for Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Northern California. Kirschenberg brings more than 30 years of sales and marketing experience in the hospitality industry to her new positions. Kirschenberg was most recently director of pre-opening strategy and operations, new- builds and transitions, where she focused on the opening and relaunch of several W and St. Regis properties in Atlanta, New York, Washington, D.C., Boston and Miami... Los Angeles-based Kor Hotel Management recently appointed Michael Lorenz as vice president of sales and Michael Doneff as vice president of marketing for the company. Lorenz will supervise all hospitality sales activities and Doneff all marketing and branding activities for the company’s portfolio, which includes the Viceroy, Tides and Urban Retreats collections of flagged properties, ongoing new-builds and contract-managed hotels. Most recently, Lorenz was vice president of sales and marketing for IMI Living. Prior to his tenure with IMI, he worked with The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, initially based in Miami as director of sales and marketing for The Ritz-Carlton, Cancun, and subsequently promoted to area director of sales and marketing for the Caribbean and Mexico. Doneff most recently was vice president of marketing for SBE in Los Angeles.
Colorado
- Brett Schoenfield was named general manager of Vail’s the Vail Cascade. Schoenfield joins the Vail Cascade team most recently from The Riviera Resort & Spa in Palm Springs, Calif., which he helped open.
Hawaii
- The Kahala Hotel & Resort appointed Thomas Pauly general manager. Most recently, Pauly was the general manager for Landmark Hotels, Mexico. Before his stint in Mexico, Pauly was in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as general manager of the historic boutique hotel The Normandie. Previously, he was with Starwood Hotels and Resorts’ Cancun properties as hotel manager at the Westin Regina… Outrigger Enterprises Group hired two sales and marketing positions. Roy Cordeiro was named director of sales and marketing for The Wyland Waikiki, which is being rebranded a Courtyard by Marriott this summer. Cordeiro previously held the position of director of sales and marketing for the Wailea Marriott, formerly the Outrigger Wailea Resort, in 2001. In 2004, Cordeiro moved to Oahu to become the director of sales and marketing for Outrigger’s beachfront properties, which includes the Outrigger Waikiki on the Beach, Outrigger Reef on the Beach and the Keauhou Beach Resort on Hawaii’s Big Island… Patsy Narimatsu joined the Outrigger Beachfront properties as director of sales and marketing. Over the past 11 years, Narimatsu has continued to oversee the sales efforts of the Prince Kuhio, which is now operated as the Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio.