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Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants has named Bryan Easter as vice president of development planning. According to an announcement, the role sits at the intersection of the company’s design, development and operations teams; Easter will be responsible for helping drive Kimpton’s growth by executing against the company’s global development plans. Easter has over 20 years of experience, starting his hospitality design career with Gensler and most recently serving a senior role at Powership Studio, where his projects included several Kimpton properties.
Wheels Up, a private aviation supplier, has named Dave Holtz as chairman of operations, a newly created role where he will report to Wheels Up president Vinayak Hegde and partner with COO Tom Bergeson. Holtz had been with Delta Air Lines for 43 years, the last 11 as senior vice president of the carrier’s operations and customer center.
Hahn Air has named Hye-Jin Kim as account manager-North America, Europe and Israel. She will support the partner airlines using the Hahn Air distribution solutions and advise on interline opportunities within the carrier’s network of 350 partner airlines. Kim previously worked for four years at Air Seoul as a marketing executive.