Donnelly Nariss Maysey has joined Crestline Hotels & Resorts as senior vice president of sales & marketing.
Maysey has more than 25 years of sales and hospitality leadership experience across full-service, select-service and luxury hotels and resorts. In her new role at Crestline, she will lead the company’s sales and marketing strategy, advance top-line performance, and strengthen training and talent development.
She joins Crestline from Aimbridge Hospitality, where she was divisional vice president of sales, leading sales strategy and performance for hotels across the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean, including Aimbridge’s luxury division, Evolution Hospitality. In that role, she directed a team of more than 1,000 professionals.
Maysey spent 14 years with Hyatt Hotels Corp. in progressively senior sales leadership roles, including regional vice president of sales. Her Hyatt experience included leadership of portfolios of Hyatt Place and Hyatt House hotels, where she drove revenue performance, developed sales talent and partnered with hotel operators and ownership groups. Her earlier hospitality experience included sales positions with Hilton Hotels & Resorts.
“Donnelly joins the Crestline team at a pivotal time as our portfolio continues to expand in the upscale market, with a special emphasis on both independent and branded boutique hotels,” James Carroll, president & CEO of Crestline Hotels & Resorts, said in a statement. “Her significant success in delivering results across a broad range of properties will be a tremendous asset to our team. Donnelly’s experience, combined with her shared vision for Crestline’s strong culture of achieving exceptional performance through a strong sales infrastructure and high-impact leaders, brings a new depth of leadership to our team as we embark on our 26th year as a leading hospitality management company.”