Janelle Cornett Named Corporate Director, Coastal Hotel Group
SEATTLE, WA, April 11, 2006. Ed Schwitzky, Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing, today announced the appointment of Janelle Cornett to the position of Corporate Director of Revenue Management.
Cornett, with ten years of revenue management experience at Hilton Hotels, will provide strategic direction, training, and oversight to all properties in the Coastal portfolio.
Says Yogi Hutsen, Coastal's President, "Cornett's hiring enhances Coastal Hotels attention to top-line performance at the property level and supports the goal of securing additional management contracts. We are very excited to have Janelle as part of the Coastal team and confident in her ability to add value."
Adds Schwitzky, "Janelle is especially valuable to Coastal's collection of hotels in that her experience runs the gamut from small to large properties in primary, secondary, and tertiary markets ... with a revenue management knowledge base and skill set honed during her years at Hilton."
Most recently, Cornett was Director of Catering and Group Revenue Management at the Waldorf-Astoria, the first position of its kind in the Hilton organization. As Director of Revenue Management at complexed hotels in Ohio and North Carolina, as well as properties in Florida and Missouri, Cornett has built a reputation based on growing RevPAR.
A native of North Dakota, Cornett studied Communications at North Dakota State University. Cornett is also a graduate of Hilton's Revenue Management University.
Coastal Hotel Group is a privately held, Seattle-based full-service hospitality management company specializing in luxury boutique hotels, resorts, inns and lodges.
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