{"id":31838,"date":"2007-02-26T05:29:53","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T21:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2007\/02\/26\/3157-hiltons-new-posts-support-global-brand-management-operations-integration\/"},"modified":"2007-02-26T05:29:53","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T21:29:53","slug":"hiltons-new-posts-support-global-brand-management-operations-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2007\/02\/26\/31838\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilton's New Posts Support Global Brand Management, Operations Integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hilton Hotels Corporation has announced the creation of two new global executive management positions and the promotions of two executives to fill these roles.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Smith has been appointed executive vice president \u2013 Americas Operations, Sales and Revenue Management, and Ernest Wooden has been appointed executive vice president \u2013 Brand Management. Kenneth Smith is based in Dallas, Texas, and Ernest Wooden is based in the Hilton Hotels Corporation World Headquarters in Beverly Hills. Both report to Tom Keltner, executive vice president \u2013 Hilton Hotels Corporation and chief executive officer \u2013 Americas and Global Brands.<\/p>\n<p>\"As proven executives with world-class leadership ability and a thorough working knowledge of our business and our brands, Ken Smith and Ernie Wooden are ideally suited to excel in these positions which are designed to effectively manage our operations and our brands,\" said Keltner.<\/p>\n<p>In his new role, Smith, a 38-year veteran of Hilton, will oversee the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Central and South America to ensure optimal alignment between hotel operations and the sales and revenue management functions for the company's owned and managed properties of all brands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hilton Hotels Corporation has announced the creation of two new global executive management positions and the promotions of two executives to fill these roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}