Omni Adds To Management Team

IRVING, TX— Omni Hotels has announced several executive appointments as a result of recent and future expansion. The luxury hotel brand opened the Omni San Francisco Hotel in the spring of 2002 and is continuing its West Coast expansion with a new hotel in San Diego scheduled to open in the spring of 2004. In addition to the new California properties, a resort in Orlando is slated for completion in late 2004 and a renovation and new tower at the Omni Hotel at CNN Center in Atlanta will be completed this fall. Edward Netzhammer has been named general manager for the Omni San Diego Hotel. Netzhammer brings to the position more than 20 years of experience in hotel management at properties throughout the U.S. Patsy Bock also joins the Omni San Diego Hotel team as director/sales and marketing. Prior to joining Omni Hotels, she worked in regional and property sales and marketing roles in California. Christine Gaudenzi has filled the role of director/sales and marketing for the Omni San Francisco Hotel. Gaudenzi has a decade of San Francisco-specific hospitality experience. Janelle Cram has joined the Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza as director/marketing. Previously she served in regional and property sales and marketing positions in Texas and along the West Coast. Paul Pebley joins Omni Hotels as director/marketing for the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate. Pebley has held senior sales and marketing positions at real estate and hospitality companies. Omni Hotels has also named Tom Casademont to the position of director/sales and Bonnie White as senior sales manager for the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate. Casademont joined Omni Hotels in 2000 as director for the Washington, D.C. national sales office. White joined Omni Hotels as the national sales manager for the companys New York national sales office. Zach Curry has assumed the position of director/marketing at the Omni Royal Orleans Hotel located in New Orleans French Quarter. He comes from the Omni Charlotte Hotel where he was director/sales and marketing. Irene Peterson has been appointed director/sales and marketing at the Omni Charlotte Hotel. Peterson has held sales positions in the Charlotte marketplace. Georgie Rabinowitz was recently promoted to director/sales at the Omni Majestic Hotel in downtown St. Louis. For the past three years, she has served as area business travel sales manager for the Omni Mandalay Hotel at Las Colinas and Omni Dallas Hotel at ParkWest. There are currently more than 40 Omni Hotels hotels and resorts in the United States, Canada and Mexico.