Thomas Mueller, the General Manager of the Sheraton Ningbo Hotel, has announced new appointments for the hotel's pre-opening team.

Benjamin Ye is now the Director of Rooms, and was promoted to his present position from the St. Regis Hotel in Shanghai where he was hired as Front Office Manager initially and promoted to to the Director of Rooms Division position 2.5 years ago.

Samson Zhang has been granted the position of Director of Sales and Marketing. Samson has a Bachelor Degree in Management from Fudan University and is presently studying Computer Science at Suzhou University.

He was promoted to his present position in Ningbo from the Sheraton Suzhou, where he held the same position since 2002. Previously he was the Director – Revenue Management in the same hotel. He also holds the title of Six Sigma Green Belt and was Starwood's Revenue Management Champion for China from 2000 to 2002.