Benchmark Appoints Diana Wellman Director of Conference Services
Cheyenne Mountain Resort
HOUSTON, TX, June 8, 2006. Benchmark Hospitality International has announced the appointment of Diana Wellman as director of conference services for Cheyenne Mountain Resort. Laura Neumann, vice president and general manager, made the announcement.
"It is my pleasure to welcome Diana to our executive staff here at Cheyenne Mountain Resort," said Ms. Neumann. "She is a seasoned professional with 22 years of experience in the industry and we look forward to her successful leadership of our Conference Services team."
Ms. Wellman actually joined Benchmark Hospitality at Cheyenne Mountain Resort as director of planning, a position she occupied for only a few months before being promoted to director of conference services. She originally joined the company as a member of a special task force in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a position that lured her out of semi-retirement. Previous to this, Wellman and her husband owned and operated a dude ranch in Montana, putting her hospitality skills to work for the family business.
For several years, Wellman was an executive for International Conference Resorts (ICR), a hospitality management company that Benchmark purchased in 2001. While with ICR, she worked in sales & marketing and meeting management positions at Seabrook Island, located near Charleston, South Carolina; Scottsdale Resort of Scottsdale, Arizona; Barton Creek Resort of Austin, Texas; Cheyenne Mountain Resort and Graylyn International Conference Center of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She began her hospitality career on Kiawah Island.
Diana Wellman is a graduate of New Hampshire Technical College. She and her family have returned to Colorado Springs.
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