Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI) Adds Respected Executive Jim Schultenover as President

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. September 25, 2013

September 25, 2013 - To address the significant growth of its worldwide hotel and resort membership and its growing client base and demand for its Global Sales Organization (GSO) services, Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI) has expanded its executive leadership team with the addition of highly respected hospitality industry sales, marketing and operations executive Jim Schultenover as President. David Gabri, who currently serves as President and CEO, will continue to serve as CEO. Schultenover, who will join ALHI on October 15, 2013, will be responsible for overseeing ALHI's day-to-day operations, while Gabri will primarily focus his efforts on building ALHI's future, global growth, and long-term plans. Schultenover, who will report to Gabri, will be based in ALHI's headquarters Global Sales Office in Orlando, Florida, where Gabri is also based.

ALHI, the prestigious Global Sales Organization (GSO) that serves the North American meetings and incentive marketplace with its exclusive Membership of more than 160 Four- and Five-Diamond quality hotels and resorts worldwide, provides authorized and dedicated GSO services and sales support to planners and organizations seeking meetings and/or incentive/recognition programs at its Member hotels and resorts. ALHI's distinctive portfolio features over 115,000 rooms and suites and nearly 10 million square feet of meeting space, providing diverse options among its outstanding Member hotels and resorts which specialize in meetings and incentive programs. ALHI provides reliable one-call professional sales assistance and access to their distinctive hotels, resorts, and venues for programs ranging from 10 to more than 6,500.

Schultenover comes to ALHI with over 30 years of hospitality industry sales and marketing experience to assume his new responsibilities, including serving as President of Krisam Group (KG) for the past nine years. Most recently he served as President of each of KG's three divisions, with responsibility for all aspects of KG's day-to-day sales, marketing, finance, and operations. Prior to that he served as Chief Marketing Officer for Ian Schrager Hotels, where he was responsible for overseeing the marketing, sales and growth of their hotels and resorts. Schultenover was also the highly respected Vice President, Sales & Marketing for six years for The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company LLC, where he directed the sales and marketing for all business disciplines, including their regional sales. His prior extensive experience also includes serving as Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing for Omni Hotels, and as Vice President of Group Sales for convention hotels and resorts. Earlier Schultenover worked for the Marriott organization in a variety of growth capacities. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management from the University of Wisconsin, Stout.

“We are so proud to have Jim joining our ALHI team,” said Gabri. “We've experienced significant growth over the years and know this as the ideal time to strategically expand our executive leadership team, including the addition of a president, simultaneously as we made other divisional organizational adjustments internally to prepare for our future. Jim is the ideal executive for the job, as he has tremendous and extensive experience leading Ritz-Carlton and Omni sales systems before moving to the independent organizations of Ian Schrager and KG. He is highly respected, with matching strong core values and character, a passion to serve clients, and possesses exceptional hotel and resort sales and marketing management expertise. Jim will be a wonderful addition, and an impactful leader to our team, with a proven entrepreneurial spirit, to help meet the demands, expectations, and needs of our Membership and the Accounts we are privileged to serve.”

Gabri added, “With Jim assuming day-to-day operation responsibilities it will provide to me more time and opportunity to focus on the 'big picture' for ALHI, our Members, and Accounts we serve; as we continue to build ALHI's future. It is an exciting time for all of us at ALHI, and I really look forward to working closely with Jim to lead our incredible ALHI team in serving our valued customers and Members.”

In addition to Gabri and Schultenover ALHI's executive team features Mike Coutu, who remains Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; Don Macumber, who remains Executive Vice President too, and also assumes the Global Division development responsibilities; plus two other Division Vice President appointments, which have been announced, including Ashly Balding and Chris Riccardi, both near 10-year ALHI veterans, who will help manage the growing GSO system in the Americas.

“I am so very proud to join such an outstanding and respected organization as ALHI,” said Schultenover. “It is the market leader, with an incredibly successful record and stellar reputation for serving its distinguished Member hotels and resorts, and its many valued clients. I really look forward to working with and leading the team with Dave to help guide ALHI to even greater heights in the future.”

Meeting professionals have chosen ALHI for nearly 30 years, for reliable one-call GSO professional sales assistance and access to their distinctive hotels and resorts for meetings and incentive/recognition programs. There is no cost to planners' organizations to utilize the ALHI GSO services, expertise, and account advocacy, as its members' dues fund the Global Sales Organization to best serve planners with local professionals.

ALHI's 160+ Member hotels and resorts include extraordinary Four- and Five-Diamond quality meeting, convention, and incentive resorts on land and sea, incomparable city hotels, exclusive smaller hotels, golf resorts, historic and landmark properties, island destinations, resorts with spas, properties in international destinations, and hotels with world-class gaming and entertainment.

For a list of ALHI's entire portfolio, visit ALHI's website www.alhi.com, and preview details of ALHI's membership, including easily useful information on 12 defined specialty segments within the ALHI portfolio. On the website, planners can quickly see details of the properties' meeting, accommodation, recreational and dining offerings, as well as destination information and “Luxury on Sale” value opportunities. A photo gallery, meeting floor plans and specs, and a location map for each property are also easily available.

ALHI has 19 professionally-staffed Global Sales Offices to serve, with locations in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Louisville, New York City, Northern California, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Richmond, Savannah, Southern California (2), Toronto, Washington, D.C., and Washington (state). Go to www.alhi.com to identify the “ALHI Team” sales professionals in your state/area.

Contact any office for professional assistance and let ALHI help you identify distinctive opportunities to meet your objectives with your meetings, incentives, and conventions. For more information about ALHI, to inquire about any of the ALHI member properties, and/or to acquire a free copy of ALHI's “2014 Global Sales Guide To Meeting Facilities” (released soon), contact your nearest ALHI Global Sales Office, or call the “ALHI Group Desk” toll-free at 866-303-ALHI (2544), and visit www.alhi.com .