US: The American Lodge & Lodging Affiliation (AHLA) has appointed Rosanna Maietta because the organisation’s president and CEO, efficient 14 November 2024.
Maietta beforehand served as president and CEO of the AHLA Basis and govt vice chairman of communications and public relations of AHLA.
Below the oversight of the AHLA search committee, chaired by vice chair Mitch Patel and together with executives of resort manufacturers, house owners, and administration corporations, Maietta’s appointment was unanimously permitted by AHLA’s govt committee and board of administrators.
She joins AHLA from the American Clear Energy Affiliation (ACP), the place she most lately served because the chief communications officer and senior counsellor to the CEO.
“I’m excited to be returning to AHLA and reconnecting with the sensible workforce and colleagues I had the privilege of working with,” Maietta mentioned. “This organisation and trade maintain a particular place in my coronary heart, and I’m looking forward to the chance to guide it into a brand new chapter of progress and engagement. Working alongside the officers and board, I’m assured that collectively we’ll construct on our previous successes and speed up this thriving trade on behalf of our members.”
AHLA chair Kevin Jacobs, chief monetary officer and president, world improvement for Hilton, mentioned: “We’re delighted to be welcoming Rosanna again to AHLA to guide this dynamic organisation. AHLA is in a powerful place of stability and power, with an engaged membership, profitable advocacy program and a gifted and devoted workforce. With Rosanna’s popularity as an astute chief and strategist and her confirmed monitor file of advancing core missions, evolving organisations, and reaching sturdy monetary outcomes, I’m assured that she is the appropriate chief to construct on AHLA’s momentum.”
Patel, founder and CEO of Imaginative and prescient Hospitality Group, added: “Rosanna is effectively often known as a artistic and galvanizing chief and a persuasive communicator with the capability to construct lasting relationships and alliances throughout all ranges and constituencies – qualities important in our subsequent CEO. Rosanna will carry a recent, strategic method that might be instrumental in advancing AHLA’s mission. Merely put, we’re thrilled to welcome Rosanna again to AHLA as our president and CEO.”
AHLA represents greater than 30,000 members from all segments of the trade nationwide.