Trade Winds
Advertiser Staff
A number of appointments and promotions have been announced recently in the local hotel and visitor industry:
• The Grand Wailea Resort on Maui has hired MATTHEW C. HART, a 24-year veteran of hotel and resort management, as general manager. Hart is a former Westin Hotels and Resorts area general manager for Westin Maui and Kapalua Bay hotels. The Grand Wailea Resort, has been named one of the world's best resorts by Conde Nast Traveler and Travel + Leisure magazines. Hart has also served on the gubernatorial advisory body, the Maui Human Services Grant Review Committee.
• FRANK LAVEY, general manager of the Hyatt Regency Waikiki Resort & Spa since 2001, has been named to the same position at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa. The property includes 40 acres of Ka'anapali Beach oceanfront property, 806 guest rooms (including 31 suites), 18 retail shops, as well as meeting and convention facilities in three connecting resort towers. Lavey has also served in management positions with Hyatt properties in Monterey, Calif.; Fisherman's Wharf, Los Angeles; and Waikiki.
• CHANNING BRIDGES has been named Marriott International area market director of group sales for the Pacific islands and Japan, responsible for bringing corporate meetings and incentive groups in North America to 11 Marriott properties. Under his kuleana will be such well-known Hawai'i resorts as the Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua; JW Marriott 'Ihilani Resort & Spa at Ko 'Olina; Renaissance 'Ilikai Waikiki Hotel, Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort, and in 2005, the 312-room Courtyard by Marriott Kaua'i at Waipouli Beach. Prior to relocating to O'ahu from Maui, Bridges was director of sales and marketing at the Kapalua Bay Hotel and Ocean Villas.
• ABID BUTT, has been promoted to vice president and general manager of the 880-acre North Shore Turtle Bay Resort. Butt is a 20-year veteran of domestic and international resort hotel management, including Sheraton hotels and Banyan Tree Resorts.
• The Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort & Spa has a new Director of Love: Wedding coordinator NATALIE CONE has been given the title, charged with helping wedding couples at the property create their perfect "dream wedding in paradise." Most recently, Cone was owner of a wedding coordination company in Texas and an independent wedding coordinator in Los Angeles. Also, STEPHEN WALDMANN has been promoted to director of catering and conference services at the resort.
• FERNANDO NOLAN has been hired by the Westin Maui Resort & Spa at Ka'anapali Beach as sales manager, primarily responsible for group business bookings from the Mainland East Coast. He is a former restaurant manager at Sheraton Maui Resort, and has spent eight years in various management positions at Kapalua Bay Hotel, including reservations manager, director of revenue managements, leisure sales manager and group sales manager.
Announcements of promotions and job changes can be sent to: Trade Winds, Business Section, The Honolulu Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802; faxed to 525-6763, or e-mailed to business@honoluluadvertiser.com. For e-mailed releases, please make sure the information is included in the body of the message, not as an attachment. Hard copy, color mug shots are preferred.
