NEW YORK— Sudheer Raghavan has been hired as the new president of Millennium Hotels and Resorts, North America, where he will be responsible for growing Millennium’s presence as a global hotel chain and increasing branding and awareness of the company’s North American properties. Raghavan comes to Millennium from Singapore Airlines, where he was the company’s vice president of the eastern United States and South America. While with Singapore Airlines, Raghavan was based in New York and oversaw the sales and marketing for passenger and cargo business in South America, the eastern U.S. and Illinois. He also supervised Singapore Airlines’ operations at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.