BRAINTREE, MA, March 5, 2012 – The 204-room Hyatt Place Boston/Braintree hotel, anticipated to open in May of 2012, today announced that Steve Buckler (top right photo) has joined as general manager and Macaire Matchett (top left photo) as director of sales as the hotel’s pre-opening senior leadership team.
Buckler brings with him 40 years of hospitality sales and operations experience, most recently as vice president, sales and marketing, for Broughton Hospitality Group and prior to that, as vice president, sales and marketing, for Pan Pacific Hotels & Resorts.
His operations experience includes leadership-level positions as general manager at the Pan Pacific Hotel in San Diego and as a regional vice president of marketing and operations for three four-star hotels in Australia, New Zealand and Vanuatu, in addition to corporate sales and marketing responsibility in the South Pacific Region.
Buckler has also held director-level sales and marketing positions, including leading a sales and marketing team during a 650-room expansion and repositioning of a luxury hotel in San Diego, and opening three four-star Hyatt hotels in Baltimore, Orlando and Atlanta.
Macaire Matchett joins the Hyatt Place Braintree (lower right dining room photo) as pre-opening director of sales, bringing extensive sales experience and knowledge of the Boston-area market to her new position.
Most recently she was director of sales at the Homewood Suites by Hilton, Canton, Mass., responsible for leading sales and marketing for a new build hotel. Prior to that Matchett was a sales manager at the 157-room Hyatt Place Boston/Medford hotel for four years, responsible for group and corporate sales.
Media Contacts:
Steve Buckler
General Manager
781-426-5104
Patrick Daly
Account Supervisor
Daly Gray, Inc.
Office: (703) 435-6293
Cell: (703) 300-8289
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