Bill Jordan
Jordan is director of sales and marketing for The Kimpton Pittman Hotel Dallas. Jordan comes from Omni Houston Hotel at Westside as director of operations. He also worked on the opening team at Houston’s Texas Medical Center, as well as director of sales at Omni Fort Worth Hotel and director of sales and marketing at Omni Richmond Hotel in Virginia, where he was awarded Director of Sales and Marketing of the Year in 2008.
Nestor Nuñez, Colleen Buchanan and Karen Bippert, CTE, CTA
Nuñez is director of corporate sales, citywide; Buchanan is senior sales manager; and Bippert is associate director of destination experience for Visit San Antonio.
Now handling Texas and the West Coast for citywides, Nunez most recently worked for the organization as senior sales manager for the Northeast U.S. and Canada.
Buchanan previously worked as Visit San Antonio’s national sales manager, in addition to other roles within the organization. Before joining Visit San Antonio, Buchanan worked as event manager for Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio.
Before her promotion, Bippert worked as Visit San Antonio’s destination experience manager. Before Visit San Antonio, Bippert worked as director of sales and marketing for The Buckhorn Saloon & Museum and Texas Ranger Museum, and sales and marketing manager for Alamo IMAX Theatre Rivercenter, both in San Antonio.
Juan Calderon
Marriott Marquis Houston has named Calderon hotel manager. Calderon has been with Marriott International for 20 years, most recently as general manager at Marriott Dallas Downtown. His hospitality experience in the Dallas-Fort Worth region extends even further, holding other leading positions such as general manager of Dallas/Fort Worth Marriott Westlake Solana and director of hotel operations for The Renaissance Dallas. He also served on the board of the North Texas Hotel Association.
Eric Rozenberg
Rozenberg is international consultant for Associated Luxury Hotel International’s Strategic Consulting Services division. He has consulted with Fortune 500 companies for more than two decades and has produced sales meetings, incentive trips and conferences in more than 50 countries.
Mustafa Bulmus
Bulmus has been named general manager for The Bodrum Edition in Yalikavak, Turkey. This marks a return to the property as he previously worked as hotel manager in 2021. Most recently, he worked as opening general manager at The Ritz-Carlton Residences Istanbul and general manager for W Istanbul.
Trevor Ferguson and Michelle Brown
Ferguson is chief operating officer and Brown is senior vice president of operations and customer excellence at Encore.
Ferguson comes from Aramark, where he worked as president and chief operating officer for the company’s higher education program.
Brown previously worked with United Airlines, where she was vice president of digital products and analytics. She also worked as the airline’s chief finance officer of commercial business units, managing director of airport operations and managing director of its MileagePlus loyalty program.
Alyssa Robin
Robin is campus general manager for the dual-branded Hotel Citrine and AC Hotel Palo Alto in Northern California. Robin comes from Radiate Hospitality as regional director of operations, where she oversaw operations for three Bay Area properties. She also worked as assistant general manager for Renaissance Indianapolis North Hotel, and director of restaurants and bars for Westin Savannah Harbor Golf and Resort in Georgia.
Tauseen Malik
Malik is general manager of The Morrow Hotel in Washington, D.C. Malik comes from another D.C.-based property, Yours Truly DC Hotel, where he worked as general manager. Before this, he worked as complex general manager at Hilton Portland Downtown and The Duniway Hotel in Oregon.
He also worked as general manager for The Adolphus in Dallas and The Drury Plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has been involved with numerous travel associations, including Travel Portland, Hotel Association of North Texas and Santa Fe Lodgers Associations.
Scott McArdle
McArdle is general manager for Alaia Belize, Autograph Collection in Ambergris Caye, Belize. McArdle comes from the United Kingdom, where he worked as general manager at Virgin Hotels in Edinburgh, Scotland. He also worked as general manager at Scrub Island Resort, Spa & Marina in British Virgin Islands and Perle Oban Hotel & Spa in Glasgow, Scotland.
Irene Campana
Campana is director of spa at the newly opened Casa de Campo Resort & Villas in La Romana, Dominican Republic. Campana previously worked at Mexico’s Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal as spa director. She also worked as spa director in Caribbean-based hotels, such as Gran Hotel Manzana Kempinski La Habana in Havana, Cuba, and Chable Maroma in Mexico.
