Chesapeake Hospitality Promotes Mark Williams to Regional Vice President of Operations
Chesapeake Hospitality, a dynamic third-party hotel management company, announced today it has promoted Mark Williams to regional vice president of operations. Kim Sims, president of Chesapeake Hospitality, made the announcement.
With more than 20 years of experience in the hospitality industry, Williams joined Chesapeake Hospitality in 2011 as general manager at its Hilton Philadelphia Airport hotel. Most recently, he served as the general manager at the company's Georgian Terrace Hotel, where his prudent approach immediately impacted the hotel's market value by improving service and efficiencies, raising the Trip Advisor ranking from #69 to #18 within 3 years.
“As a leading hotel management company with more than five decades of experience, we know that a commitment to having the right people in place to facilitate growth is critical to the success of our company and our owners,” said Sims. “Williams has been instrumental in helping to grow our properties as a general manager, and we know that his passion, creativity and results-oriented attitude will help to further drive successful results at more of our properties.”
As regional vice president of operations, Williams will oversee a hotel portfolio consisting of upper upscale and luxury hotels.
Williams is active on a number of boards, including the Melbourne Beach Hospitality Association, the Melbourne Regional CVB, the FRLA Space Coast Chapter, the Cleveland CVB, the Cleveland CVB Business Development Committee, the Greater Philadelphia Hotel Association (GPHA), the GPHA Airport Hotel Committee, Atlanta CVB Hotel Council and the Atlanta Midtown Alliance Hotel Council.
With a major in biology and minor in history, Williams graduated from the University of Central Florida. For more information about Chesapeake Hospitality, please visit www.chesapeakehospitality.com.
About Chesapeake Hospitality
Greenbelt, MD-based Chesapeake Hospitality brings more than five decades and 200 collective years of executive experience to the owners of our diverse portfolio of properties nationally. Our hands-on approach using innovative and proprietary Web-based tools combined with our own deep industry knowledge ensures our revenue management strategies and investment recommendations will yield the highest revenue potential and sales growth at each of our properties. Boasting some of the highest employee retention rates in the industry, our people are with us for the long-term, ensuring owner's personal attention, excellent service and strong relationships for the duration of our partnership. Our owners may have worked with other firms, but with Chesapeake Hospitality they experience what's possible.
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