Regent Hotels & Resorts has announced the opening of three new regional sales offices, in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong as well as the appointments of a new sales leadership team based in those offices and others.
Regent welcomes Rene Mayer as assistant global director of sales (Taipei), Simon Dai as regional director of sales (Beijing), Eric Ho as regional director of sales (Hong Kong), Ted Kitahara as executive director of Sales (Japan), and Cooper Lin as sales manager (Shanghai).
Mayer was most recently director of sales and marketing at Sofitel Plaza Hanoi where he focused on the collective goals of the luxury hotel chain. Dai brings more than eight years of senior sales account management experience to his new role. He was previously account director of Starwood Global Sales office in China.
Prior to joining Regent Hotels & Resorts, Ho gained extensive experience in corporate, Mice and leisure segments through his work as DOS at the Regional Sales offices of Dusit Hotel Group, Accor and the Kempinski Hotel Group in Hong Kong.
Kitahara began his hospitality career in 1991 when he became a F&B trainee at the Four Seasons Hotel at Chinzan-So Tokyo. Kitahara worked his way up through the luxury hotel industry at several Asian locations including ANA Crowne Plaza Narita, ANA Intercontinental Tokyo and Intercontinental Bangkok.
Lin is currently sales manager of Regent Taipei. He has a thorough understand of the Regent brand and its principles, having been with the company since the Grand Formosa days.