Edd Karlan has been appointed director of sales and marketing of Hilton West Palm Beach.
The 400-room hotel, which recently opened, offers 24,000 square feet of meeting space and is connected to the Palm Beach County Convention Center.
An accomplished sales executive, Karlan most recently led the sales team at the Hilton Atlanta, a position he held since 2007 and where he mentored the team of thirteen as well as contributed to the hotels success including Hilton Sales Team of the Year and Hotel of the Year in 2014.
He began his career with Hilton in 1989 as sales and event manager at Hilton Westchester. From 1994 to 1999, Karlan was assistant director of sales at the Hilton New York, in Midtown Manhattan, where he was awarded Hilton’s Excellence in Sales Award in 1997. In 1999, Karlan joined the team at Hilton Anaheim as the director of sales and marketing where he remained until joining the team at Hilton Atlanta.
Karlan is a member of PCMA, MPI and HSMAI and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in hospitality management from Florida International University in Miami, Florida.
