KSL Resorts announces new Global Sales Director

IRVINE, CALIF. – Adding to its team of accomplished sales professionals, KSL Resorts has announced the addition of Frank Rodgers as its newest global sales director.

Overseeing leisure sales – including the retail travel agent market – as well as the wholesale market, consortia and tour groups, Rodgers will report to Chris Riccardi, KSL Resorts’ senior vice president, global sales strategy. According to Riccardi, Rodgers is an experienced sales executive and will be a brand ambassador for the leisure market, playing a pivotal role in the company’s overall sales strategy.

“Frank is a valuable new addition to our growing sales team, and we are thrilled to have him on board,” Riccardi said. “He is a highly productive, results-driven and savvy sales leader with a keen focus on customer care and will be central to our strategic growth plan going forward.”

With over 10 years of hospitality industry sales experience, Rodgers was most recently associate director of Waldorf Astoria’s Grand Wailea Maui resort and was also leisure sales manager for the Arizona Biltmore, another Waldorf Astoria property. Additionally, he was senior sales manager for Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills, area sales manager for Highgate Hawaii Hotels and sales manager for The Royal Hawaiian. With experience in many facets of the hotel industry, he also worked as a restaurant sales manager for the Sheraton Waikiki and as a complex meeting and event manager for Starwood Resorts of Waikiki.

President and founder of Hawaii Ohana Southern California, Rodgers is proficient in Japanese. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in marketing and international business from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and studied Japanese at Konan University in Japan.

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