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2019 is becoming the year of the CGI-faced actor. After computer based de-aging technology took decades off the cast of “ The Irishman ,” “Gemini Man” has employed this same technique to turn “ Collateral Beauty ” Will Smith into “Six Degrees of Separation” Will Smith. Granted, the F/X folks had to pull fewer decades off the Fresh Prince, so the effect looks a bit better. Plus they gave his younger stand-in much sharper cheekbones than he had in 1993, an enhancement that wasn’t necessary but was probably welcome. Director Ang Lee ’s sci-fi actioner uses even more CGI to pit Young Will against Old Will in a convoluted plot about assassins, corrupt intelligence agencies and the old stand-by that’s currently getting beaten to death by “ Ad Astra ,” daddy issues.

Quite honestly, I didn’t know what to think of “Gemini Man” once the credits started rolling. I neither hated it nor liked it. Well, I hated one aspect of it, which I should get out of the way now because it will probably not affect most ticket-buyers. Paramount presented the critics’ screening in the format Ang Lee made it, 120 frames per second and in 3-D. Lee’s prior film, “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” also used this frame rate. As a point of reference using a more familiar movie, “The Hobbit” series ran at 48 frames per second. At five times the original rate of film running through the projector, “Gemini Man” looks radically different than most movies. It also looks astonishingly bad. Tom Cruise , Paramount’s current bread and butter, made a video scolding mere mortals like a Southern grandmother for using the motion smoothing setting on their televisions. Yet 120 frames per second looks  exactly like motion smoothing . In fact, it looks worse, like a hellish cross between a video game and a telenovela. It’s so obnoxious that I know of two critics who walked out after 30 minutes.

Story-wise, Smith plays Henry Brogan, a highly skilled assassin working for an intelligence agency run by Janet Lassiter ( Linda Emond ). Brogan is so good he can hit a target on a moving train from hundreds of feet away. A target on a train whose tracks curve wildly toward the screen as it flies by at unimaginable speed. Brogan’s mark takes it in the neck rather than the intended head shot, and though it’s still a lethal wound, Brogan sees this as the final nail in the coffin of his career. He retires, returning to a boat dock where his normal boat renting guy has been replaced by Danny Zakarweski ( Mary Elizabeth Winstead ). As spies are wont to do, Brogan expresses suspicion about this change. Is she a plant sent to keep tabs on him, perhaps an employee of Lassiter’s frenemy colleague Clay Verris ( Clive Owen )?

Of course, nothing is as it seems in movies like this. After colleagues start being murdered and Brogan learns that his last target was merely a scientist and not a terrorist, he goes on the run with Danny who, as expected, is also an agent. When Lassiter’s attempts to neutralize Brogan fail miserably, Clay overrides her and executes something called “ Gemini .” You don’t have to be an astrologer to know that Gemini involves the aforementioned younger version of Smith, dubbed Junior. Lee does an excellent job with Junior’s reveal and the ensuing motorcycle battle, the most exciting sequence in the film. The first-person perspective really works here, as does the clever way the Smiths use their vehicles as weapons. Lee even throws in an homage to John Woo (who would have been a better choice for this material), though he uses pigeons instead of doves.

“Gemini Man” knows you’re there to see a battle of Wills, so it gives us multiple sequences where 51-year old Brogan goes toe-to-toe with his younger self. The elder Brogan has the advantage; the wisdom of age and experience prevents him from making the same youthful mistakes he once made, mistakes Junior is making for the first time. Unfortunately, the second battle takes place in a dark catacomb where the effects are so quickly edited that you can’t figure out which version is beating the hell out of the other. It also takes forever for Brogan to realize that Junior looks exactly like him. Maybe it’s the new cheekbones.

The screenplay by Billy Ray , Darren Lemke and “Game of Thrones”’ David Benioff is more in service to the numerous technological aspects Lee is juggling than any human element. It uses Brogan’s intentionally closed-off, emotionless personality as a crutch to avoid any meaningful fleshing out of characters and relationships. The always-welcome Benedict Wong shows up to supply his usual humorous line-readings and jovial nature—he’s a fine purveyor of the perfect best friend trope—and Winstead gets to kick some major ass instead of being a stereotypical girl Friday, but neither truly registers as a fully realized human being. The relationship between Junior and Clay (which I won’t reveal) serves as an attempt at emotional connection, but their entire plotline plays like a Hitler-less version of Ira Levin ’s “The Boys From Brazil.” The reasoning behind Junior and the Gemini project is far more trouble than it is worth.

“Gemini Man” never pretends to be anything but a time-wasting contraption hoping to entertain its viewer. I can’t reasonably be mad at its honesty, and despite the horrendous dialogue its actors are often forced to speak, I found myself enjoying a fair amount of it. But Ang Lee is the rare director who can invest an action movie with the same strong emotional heft he brought to his dramas like “ Brokeback Mountain .” “ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ” is a great example of this. His recent desire to be at the forefront of frame-based technology, however, is resulting in hollow, empty experiences that are literally hard to watch. Perhaps the Gemini project could be used to send the Ang Lee who made “ The Wedding Banquet ” to visit the Ang Lee who made this. Break his high-frame rate camera, Junior.

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• Goofs Since Will Smith played both characters they have an identical accent. This is a common error in fiction with clones -the clones of Jango Fett all speaking with his accent, for example. Since accent is not a genetic factor but is influenced throughout a person's life and develops based on environmental factors it is impossible for these two characters to share an accent so perfectly. The same is true for personality, likes/dislikes and moral imperatives.

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‘Gemini Man’ Review: That Assassin Looks a Lot Like Will Smith

This globe-trotting action thriller directed by Ang Lee is largely forgettable, except for one co-star.

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By A.O. Scott

I’m a little worried that the premise of “ Gemini Man ,” which is the most interesting thing about it, might also count as a spoiler. So if you don’t want to know anything about this movie other than that Will Smith plays a super-lethal military assassin hunted by nefarious forces in his own government — which is too much of a cliché to count as a spoiler — then maybe you should move along. Or just watch the trailer, declare the whole thing spoiled, and go about your day.

Because what places this globe-trotting action caper, directed by Ang Lee, just a little bit above “utterly forgettable” is the fact that Smith plays more than one assassin. The first one is Henry Brogan, a sniper who has decided to retire after killing dozens of bad guys over the years. Not so fast, Henry! As soon as he settles down in his house on the Georgia coast, gunmen start showing up to terminate his pension. When he gets to Colombia, another would-be killer shows up, but this one — get ready! — is Henry’s own clone.

Henry 2.0 is called Junior, and he is also played by Will Smith. He was cultivated by Henry’s former boss, Clay Verris (Clive Owen), a nasty bureaucrat with good taste in art. Junior is 25 years younger than his — original? donor? template? tissue sample? — an effect that has been achieved via digital de-aging, the cinematic trend of 2019. Various techniques to shave off the years were used on Samuel L. Jackson in “Captain Marvel” and on Robert De Niro in “The Irishman.” There is something both unnerving and poignant about seeing these familiar faces turned into younger versions of themselves, because they don’t quite recapture the smooth-faced stars we remember. Junior doesn’t look like the Will Smith of 25 years ago as much as he looks like a 25-year-old who is really, really tired of everyone telling him how much he looks like Will Smith.

Junior tries to beat Henry to death with a motorcycle in Cartagena. Later on they trade punches in Budapest. Since a globe-trotting assassin needs someone to banter with and care about, Henry acquires two sidekicks, a younger (but not cloned) operative (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and a grizzled veteran ( Benedict Wong ). As the three of them uncover the buried secrets about Junior’s background and Verris’s treachery, some philosophical and practical questions arise about how Henry should relate to Junior. Is he a second dad? A big brother? A grouchy uncle? How well does he know the kid, anyway?

The answers, tucked into a sludgy script by David Benioff, Billy Ray and Darren Lemke, will not surprise you. What might surprise you, and not happily, is the way “Gemini Man” looks, thanks to Lee’s insistence on using the high-frame-rate 3-D format that he first tried out in “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.” The effect is like watching a “Jason Bourne” dinner-theater production in the grip of a migraine. The performances feel slow and deliberate, and the hyper-clarity of the images undermines realism rather than enhancing it.

Everything is either too bright or too dim. Action sequences rattle on in murky twilight, and actual places look like cartoons. It takes some work to make Budapest and Cartagena look like generic video-game backdrops, but Lee succeeds. Whatever mystery, intrigue or charm might have percolated in the story and the performances is bleached away by the soulless literalism of the pictures.

The partial exception, as I’ve suggested, can be found in Smith’s face s, which haunt each other. The idea of confronting an unknown second self is full of rich, uncanny potential — there’s a literary tradition going back at least to Edgar Allan Poe — but “Gemini Man” squanders it, along with what might have been two interesting performances.

Rated PG-13. Dudes fighting, and they might even be the same dude! Running time: 1 hour 57 minutes.

A.O. Scott is the co-chief film critic. He joined The Times in 2000 and has written for the Book Review and The New York Times Magazine. He is also the author of “Better Living Through Criticism.” More about A.O. Scott

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‘Gemini Man’: Review

By Fionnuala Halligan, Chief Film Critic 2019-09-26T13:00:00+01:00

Ang Lee raises the bar technically - if not dramatically - in a watershed film

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‘Gemini Man’

Dir. Ang Lee. US. 2019. 117 mins.

Seen at 60 frames per second (fps) on 3D-Plus (2K resolution), Ang Lee’s action spectacular Gemini Man proved a compulsive watch: not for the usual ingredients of can’t-look-away Hollywood cinema such as acting – Will Smith takes a dual role - or plot, both of which fell a little flat, and seemed almost wilfully generic. As a viewing experience, though, this picture delivers as a prototype of future action film-making. Full of movie magic, but not at all magical, Gemini Man could prove a game-changing event for the industry, although it is unlikely to make a similarly deep impression at the box office.

The actors struggle to convey naturalism in a film which wants to emphasise realism

Ang Lee, who has been tinkering around with projection speeds for some time now to mixed fortunes ( Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk ), and with 3D back since The Life Of Pi, opens up the screen to the side and all the way to the back with astounding, disorientating depth-of-field. ( Gemini Man was shot at 120 frames per second for 4K projection.) He pits 51 year-old Will Smith against his 23 year-old, wholly digitised self, completely seamlessly. This Weta Studios-engineered, hyper-real achievement is, like all high frame projection, hard on the eye -  until the action kicks off, and then you can’t look away.

Thrill-seekers after an incredibly realistic punch-up would do best to watch this crazily ambitious film - which was shot on location in three continents – on the big-screen as intended, either in 48 or 60 fps. (Chinese financiers include Fosun and Alibaba, and the technology seems very apt for their domestic audiences’ current taste for a blend of film and ultra-high-res-gaming; in fact, the only cinemas currently capable of showing it in 120 fps/4k are in Asia.) Regular flat-screen home viewing is likely to be even more of a disappointment than the flat plot this film is hung on.

Undoubtedly, this level of technical finesse puts all departments under immense stress. With such intense pixelated scrutiny the actors struggle to convey naturalism in a film which wants to emphasise realism. While Dion Beebe’s cinematographic achievement is never anything less than impressive, it’s also there to be admired in itself, as opposed to primarily servicing the story. Colours, in particular natural greens, are too hard on the eye. And production design is extremely challenged to carry off studio work with any degree of believability. Some finished sequences mimic the experience of actually standing on a soundstage. Continuity is exposed, especially with the actors – hairlines, hair colour, ‘injuries’.

What you get in return is a sense of the future: work with mirrors (and in one case, chrome), chase sequences and underwater action which undoubtedly raise the bar for the industry as a whole. While the plot of Gemini Man is little more than a variation of the Mission Impossible or Bourne pictures, the film itself means they can’t quite be made as they have been before. Camera shots that seem to bend around the screen; hand-held camera right in the middle of chase sequences with a level of realism that has not been previously achieved – there’s no facial blurring – casts doubt on the future of CGI as we know it. The backgrounding and foregrounding of characters and extras is fascinating in a way that feels alien and often ugly but is also technically life-like. It’s all theoretically much more interesting than the drama on screen, however, making Gemini Man essentially a prototype, like one of its antagonists.

Smith plays a former special ops sharp-shooter and government assassin - the Bourne -y best there ever was, with almost inhuman talents – who wants to retire after 72 successful hits. A trip to his friend’s yacht, which seems designed solely to showcase the film’s high levels of comfort in 3D water, reveals that he has been misled by his bosses, however. Enter a stiff Clive Owen as a renegade division head who has started up a genetic programme to replicate Smith’s talents in a clone with none of the human emotions attached. Enter too, a comely sidekick in the shape of another operative on the run, played with a loose-limbed appeal by Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

Sometimes, Gemini Man brings with it a waft of John Woo’s Face/Off , but even though Ang Lee is attempting huge things technically, this film in itself hasn’t enough character to carry them. Sometimes, it lifts to unprecedented levels, when the younger and older versions of Smith dance through fight scenes or, in one case, over the rooftops and into the audience’s face a la Lee’s Oscar-winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon . The fact that Will Smith can be entirely recreated so successfully is obviously a game-changer for the Screen Actor’s Guild – Lee’s prowess makes the first attempts at this, back when Oliver Reed died during the making of Gladiator , even the reincarnations of Carrie Fisher and Peter Cushing in Star Wars , seem old and faded.

But Gemini Man is also proof that even while some things change, others remain stubbornly the same. The Screen Writer’s Guild can stand down: the there’s still no way to engineer a shortcut around a good screenplay.

Production companies: Skydance Productions, Jerry Bruckheimer Productions

International distribution: Paramount

Producers: Jerry Bruckheimer, David Ellison, David Goldberg, Don Granger

Screenplay: David Benioff, Billy Ray, Darren Lemke, from a story by Benioff and Ray

Cinematography: Dion Beebe

Production design: Guy Hendrix Dyas

Editing: Tim Squyres

Main cast: Will Smith, Clive Owen, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Benedict Wong, Douglas Hodge

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  Kat Man 2  is a very well equipped version of the versatile and capable Gemini 105MC.  With a large forward owners cabin, two additional staterooms, and a convertible dinette,  there is plenty of room for friends and family.  The 105 MC features several opening hatches and port lights, making the interior feel open and airy.  The design makes this 34' cat feel much larger than she is, while still fitting into a standard slip at most marinas.

Kat Man 2  is equipped to handle long voyages.  Her owners have installed some very intelligent upgrades over the past several years including a very robust 12V electrical system with multiple charging sources that allow her to be away from the dock for months.  

Take a very close look at the extensive gear and upgrades this Gemini has to offer and compare her to the the others on the market.  After doing your research, you will likely come to the understanding that  Kat Man 2  is one of the most complete offerings on the market today.

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First introduced on the original Gemini 105M, the hull shape of the 105Mc is still revolutionary in the multihull industry. The hulls of the Gemini 105Mc are shallow and shaped much like a "teardrop" which requires little force to move the 105Mc through the water yet it also provides a high load carrying capacity (450 lb per hull per 1"). The bridge deck has 39" of clearance at the bow. This, combined with the lack of pitching and wave making, translates to a comfortable ride with no heeling. The shape has been tested and proven in a wide variety of conditions... surfing down 30' waves in the mid-Atlantic, cruising to Hawaii, or cruising down the Intracoastal waterway. The Gemini hulls provide many advantages considering their weight and structural rigidity. The entire hull mold is one complete unit including the centerboard cases. This single unit eliminates any secondary bonding down the keel, at the bridge deck or around the centerboard cases making for a far stronger hull. The result - a faster, stronger, and more stable platform that provides excellent sailing performance. 

Throughout the history of the Gemini Catamaran, the centerboards have always been her secret weapon and the reason why she points so well to windward. The lift-able boards provide plenty of 'grip' while going to windward yet are easily retractable. So going downwind, the boards are raised thus minimizing drag and maximizing performance. The 105Mc's centerboards combine the pivoting, kick up cruising convenience of centerboards, with the remarkably efficient shape of dagger boards. The centerboards in the Gemini 105Mc have an advanced asymmetric shape that lifts the boat to windward with reduced drag. The boards are now molded with closed cell foam, which ensures they will last a lifetime. The centerboards case has a Plexiglas cover enabling the operator to see whether they are up or down. Centerboards are operated from inside and will easily kick up if the boat is grounded.

The galley of the 105Mc is twice the size of previous models and features a double-sided work surface, double burner propane stove-top with oven and separate broiler, a double stainless sink, easy access to the four cubic foot refrigerator (powered by propane or 110v), optional microwave, two AC outlets on either side of the galley, and plenty of accessible storage. The 105Mc has 60 gallons of water storage split between two 30 gallon tanks located under the aft scabin berths.

The head features standing head room, marine toilet, single bowl sink, medicine cabinet, additional storage locker, and a separate shower head with a unique folding Plexiglass door for keeping a towel and change of clothes dry while you take a shower. The head also features a unique fresh-water flush for the toilet which provides a quick and easy way to virtually eliminate head-odor. The 18-gallon holding tank is owner-accessible from the sail locker and can be gravity drained or emptied from the pump-out on deck. Each of the aft cabins contains a "cozy double" bed, hanging storage lockers and drawer, and plenty of ventilation thanks to Bomar hatches on each side and optional fans. The area underneath each bed houses a 30 gallon water tank for a total of 60 gallons. There is also a six gallon water heater, various seacocks for the engine and optional air conditioner, and room for a modular water maker.

The Gemini is powered by a 27 hp Westerbeke diesel with 55-amp alternator and heat exchanger for hot water. It is designed and built using experience gained in supplying over 1,100 whale boat engines to the United States Navy. The greater piston Bore of the 30B Three delivers more power without sacrificing smooth and quiet operation. To minimize engine maintenance, the 30B Three is fresh water cooled and equipped with a simple control system. Easy access to all servicing points and a self-bleeding fuel system allows easy installation and routine maintenance. The engine weighs 274 pounds and drives a lift-able, steer-able outdrive leg from Sillette marine with a large efficient propeller. With this configuration, the Gemini can motor in as little as 20 inches of water and when sailing, the drive leg and prop are pumped up and clear of the water. With no fixed prop in the water, there's little to no drag and nothing to get fouled or bent on trap lines or the bottom.

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Gemini is a twin engine 35 foot catamaran which makes it an excellent stable platform for all types of trips. We have been operating Gemini since 1992, during that time we have made many friends and have enjoyed hundreds of trips seeing and experiencing many wonderful things.

We work closely with The Manx Wildlife Trust, Manx Whale and Dolphin Watch, Manx Basking Shark Watch and the Manx Ornithological Society.

All wildlife sightings are recorded and reported to the appropriate organisation. We have been involved in The Shark tagging Programs for many years, Now supported by The Manx Wildlife Trust   

We operate weather permitting daily from Alfred Pier, Port St Mary on the Isle of Man.

Fishing Trips - tackle & bait provided

Wildlife Trips / Bird Watching - Wise Certified Operator

Coastal Cruises - Taking in sights of The Calf of Man including The Drinking Dragon and

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Tea/Coffee and biscuits provided

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Passengers: Maximum

10 preferred for fishing (so we can have 3-4 crew to help)

12 for Wildlife Tours

All ages welcome

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45.72m  /  150' | boeing usa | 1984 / 2004.

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Special Features:

• Sleeps 16 overnight
• Shallow draft and fast speeds for reef exploration

The 45.72m/150' motor yacht 'Gemini' was built by Boeing USA . This luxury vessel's exterior design is the work of Boeing USA and she was last refitted in 2004.

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She is also capable of carrying up to 6 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience.

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Built with a aluminium hull and aluminium superstructure, with aluminium decks, she benefits from a semi-displacement hull to provide exceptional seakeeping and impressive speeds. Gemini comfortably cruises at 12 knots, reaches a maximum speed of 14 knots. Her low draft of 1.83m/6' makes her primed for accessing shallow areas and cruising close to the shorelines. Her water tanks store around 18,925 Litres of fresh water.

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Chandler makes appearances at major events like SXSW and Cannes Film Festival to share Puerto Rico’s storytelling and innovation.

One of the DMO’s most successful campaigns was the locals-centered Live Boricua. It’s currently in its third iteration. The word “Boricua” comes from Borinquen or Borikén, the name given to the island by indigenous Taínos.

The U.S. territory was the fastest-growing destination in overseas visitation in 2023, having jumped 85% from 2019, according to the U.S. National Travel and Tourism Office.

– Dawit Habtemariam

Leslie Hale

Rlj lodging trust ceo.

“I am humbled and honored to be the first, but I have no interest in being the only.” That was how Leslie Hale put it to the Washington Post in 2018, when she was named CEO at RLJ Lodging Trust, which made her the first African American woman to be chief executive of a publicly traded real estate investment trust.

She had been appointed chief financial officer in 2007 and chief operating officer in 2016. Hale is the granddaughter of a Tennessee sharecropper. Later, her family moved from Tennessee to Los Angeles before she moved away to study business and finance at Howard University and then Harvard Business School. In addition to her role at RLJ, she is on the board of Macy’s and a trustee at Howard University.

As CEO, she has managed several high-quality and premium acquisitions, including a portfolio of hotels from White Lodging, the Hyatt House in Chelsea, New York, and the Courtyard by Marriott in downtown Austin, Texas.

Hale drove the adoption of data analytics for revenue management and enhancing guest experiences. RLJ Lodging Trust now has 96 hotels across the United States with approximately 21,200 rooms.

She has also fostered a sense of collaboration, inclusivity, and empowerment among her employees. She has focused on adding diverse leadership into the company and finding ways to provide mentorship and sponsorship for individuals from lower-income backgrounds to land high-earning positions.

“The most impactful thing to do is to add diverse leadership on the leadership team because those individuals will directly and indirectly drive diversity throughout the organization,” Hale said to the industry magazine, mpamag , in 2020. “And while it’s important to add diversity in the lower ranks, that won’t necessarily help you drive it through the organization.”

Ho Ren Yung

Banyan group deputy ceo.

Everything about Ho Ren Yung screams “next-gen” – from her sense of style to her unwavering commitment to wellbeing, to the fact she is literally the next generation of leadership at Banyan Group. The daughter of Banyan founders Claire Chiang and Ho Kwong Ping, Yung experienced the family business growing up and saw an opportunity to transform it later on.

In August 2024, Yung was promoted to deputy CEO of the company, now working across every aspect of the business to drive its growth.

Before her move up, she handled brand, digital and wellbeing as VP of brand HQ since 2016. Her approach has been to find ways to diversify the business, hone in on customer experience and ensure Banyan is one of the most environmentally-conscious operators in the biz – both in design and operations.

As a teenager, Yung enjoyed being in the marine lab of Banyan Tree Vabbinfaru, which is where she found her love for the environment. She went on to study economic development and sociology, but when she joined Banyan in 2009, she sought to focus heavily on wellness.

Today, Banyan Group has 10 brands, and in 2024, it will open the most hotels in a year since the group started in the 1980s. Last year, the luxury operator saw revenue increase 46% to about $300 million, surpassing pre-pandemic levels.

Under her watch, Banyan has pushed into new markets like Saudi Arabia and Dubai, with the Bahamas on the horizon and an ever-growing presence in China. This is all while she juggles her own co-working space business and an ethical clothing brand called Matter.

– Josh Corder

Sonia Cheng

Rosewood hotel group ceo.

Sonia Cheng is known for bringing culture, heritage, and history to her role as CEO of Rosewood Hotel Group, a global luxury hotel management company. Appointed in 2011 to CEO at age 30, Cheng has focused on making the 45-year-old luxury hotel group “purpose-driven” and welcoming to the younger generation.

Cheng was born into one of Hong Kong’s wealthiest families. She is the daughter of a Hong Kong property developer and the granddaughter of a real estate and jewelry billionaire. She worked as an investment banker in New York and Hong Kong before joining the investment firm New World Hospitality – the family business –- in 2008. The group became “Rosewood Hotel Group” following the acquisition of Rosewood Hotels & Resorts.

When she took over Rosewood as CEO in 2011, she expanded the brand globally and brought it into the modern era.

Cheng’s leadership is largely defined by her dedication to bringing a “sense of place” to each property. She has tried to make the hotels feel like someone’s home and match the local culture. London’s Rosewood property has drawings by British illustrators, for example, while the Beijing location integrates elements of traditional Chinese architecture.

When Cheng first became CEO, there was some skepticism from rivals about how much she could achieve. Cheng spent her first few years learning about every aspect of the industry, from housekeeping to operations to marketing.

Today, Rosewood’s portfolio boasts 50 hotels in 23 countries, with 33 more in development​. She has overseen the transformation of iconic properties like The Carlyle in New York and Hôtel de Crillon in Paris​. Cheng has also introduced innovative concepts such as Asaya, an integrative wellness program, and the Rosewood Explorers Club, enhancing family travel experiences​.

– Jesse Chase-Lubit z

Staci Mellman

Destination marketing leader.

Staci Mellman has sat at high levels in America’s destination marketing industry. Until August this year, she was chief marketing officer for Brand USA, America’s destination marketing organization. Before that, she was chief marketing officer for Visit Florida, the DMO for one of America’s most-visited states.

Mellman effectively managed agency relationships, branding, and marketing plan development, said Will Seccombe, who hired her during his time as Visit Florida’s chief executive. “She is a grinder who gets things done,” he said.

Amid the pandemic and global lockdowns, Mellman helped drive Floridians to take more vacations inside the state and explore their own backyard with a marketing campaign that highlighted Florida’s attractions, landscapes and experiences.

During her time, she was focused on positioning Florida as a destination that is inclusive of travelers with disabilities. She was also pivotal in building a coalition of tourism boards from Tampa, Orlando and Miami to each invest $150,000 and bring in the Michelin Guide to review their restaurants in 2022.

“Prior to our partnership with Michelin, 37% of respondents in a survey that we do saw Florida as having unique local cuisine,” said Visit Florida CEO and President Dana Young. “Two years into our partnership with Michelin, 51% of respondents see Florida as having unique local cuisine.”

Florida’s culinary scene has not only gotten more attention, it’s also attracting talent hoping to work at Michelin-starred restaurants.

In November 2022, Mellman joined Brand USA as senior vice president of integrated marketing. After a year, she was promoted to chief marketing officer.

At Brand USA, she helped the DMO take on a more innovative approach. Brand USA partnered with Expedia’s media division to launch GoUSA, the DMO’s own streaming channel showcasing what the U.S. has to offer.

Mellman also helped craft Brand USA’s “This Is Where It’s At,” the organization’s single largest consumer campaign in its history. In 10 countries, the campaign highlighted America’s lesser known destinations and variety of experiences, from serenity to adventure to family fun.

Zina Bencheikh

Intrepid travel managing director of emea.

Zina Bencheikh has been an outspoken advocate of empowering women through tourism and breaking down gender barriers. One of her biggest successes was to bring more women into Morocco’s male-dominated travel industry.

Bencheikh actually started with a career in corporate finance at KPMG in Paris, but found travel was her passion. When she moved back to Marrakesh in 2010, she took up a job as finance manager with Intrepid Travel. She quickly rose to general manager for Morocco and Europe.

Starting out, she found it “very complicated” to hire women tour guides. Only 9 in the entire country were qualified by the government to be mountain tour guides.

Through lobbying the government and leveraging Intrepid’s size, she was able to convince government officials to simplify the process. She told the tourism minister: “We’re a big business, we bring money here. If you want us to stay here and continue to grow, give us more human guides.”

Intrepid now has 150 women tour guides.

She is frequently invited to speak at travel industry events around the world about the economic opportunities destinations unlock when they encourage more female employment in leadership positions.

At the Latin America Travel Association’s Expo this year, for example, Bencheikh spoke about how stereotypes and ‘macho’ culture have been a barrier to women rising to top leadership roles in the industry.

Bencheikh has overseen Intrepid’s expansion in several markets like Iceland, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Morocco. She has been heavily involved in developing Intrepid’s Women’s Expeditions, tours led by women and for women travelers. Its latest launch was in Saudi Arabia.

In times of crisis, Bencheikh is an important voice in the industry, encouraging travel to destinations hit by natural disasters. After an earthquake struck Marrakesh in September 2023, she spoke to news outlets to inform viewers that local communities need tourism income to feed their families.

To lead with example, on December 1, Intrepid restarted tours to one of the villages disconnected due to damaged roads. “It was quite fast because we really needed to send a strong message and make sure that our communities don’t get a double impact from this devastating earthquake,” said Bencheikh.

Neha Parikh

Waze former ceo.

Neha Parikh became one of the few women CEOs in travel when she took the top job for the Google-owned navigation app Waze in 2021.

Though Parikh was able to carve out a space for herself in the industry, she explained that it’s an ongoing battle to contribute a perspective that peers and customers often don’t share.

“I think I’m constantly fighting to find my voice, and even if I have something different to say, that I would actually have the confidence to say it,” Parikh told Skift in 2022. “If you’re in a position to amplify someone’s voice and to help give them the confidence, please do that because it makes a difference. I’ve had people do that throughout my career.”

Google in 2023 absorbed Waze into its Geo business, which oversees the company’s portfolio of mapping products that include Google Maps, Google Earth, and Street View. As part of that move, Google cut the CEO role for Waze and Parikh exited the company. During her time there, the app hit 151 million active monthly users.

Before Waze, Parikh had 10 different jobs and lived in five different cities during a 12-year stint at Expedia.

Her last role at Expedia was as president of flight and hotel booking service Hotwire. Earlier in her career there, she helped build the first loyalty program for Hotels.com, which was called Welcome Rewards.

Parikh is also a board member of online used car retailer Carvana, a Fortune 500 company.

– Justin Dawes

Shruti Challa

Investor and former sonder chief revenue officer.

Shruti Challa, a former Sonder chief revenue officer and currently an active investor, was not the first entrepreneur in her U.S. immigrant family.

Growing up in Kansas, Challa’s dad was a physician and serial entrepreneur who came to the U.S. from India. He loved “solving unique medical problems and building something from scratch,” Challa says. “So I was around an entrepreneur as a young girl. And I was Daddy’s little girl. So I really got the feel for it and love for it early on.”

She also credits her success to her education at Stanford, where she was a champion debater, an internship at PayPal when she was 19, and then another one at the Founders Fund. “Peter Thiel,” who co-founded PayPal and The Founders Fund, “had this kind of a PayPal mafia and it was a big thing,” Challa recalls.

“They really mentored me and got me into investing really early, but also gave me the confidence to be an operator at a really young age,” Challa says. “ So since then, those two things, [the mentoring] and Stanford, facilitated this career and operating over the last 15 plus years, 10 of which have basically been in travel.”

In 2014, Challa joined Rocket Travel and served more than four years as general manager/senior vice president of new business and partnerships. Booking Holdings acquired the company in early 2015.

Then she met Sonder co-founder and CEO Francis Davidson, “who supports people who don’t fit a mold.” Challa joined Sonder in 2019 and helped lead both data science and brand at the short-term rental/hotel company. “It’s a hard business at its core,” Challa says, referring to Sonder. She helped take it public, but it has been unprofitable and its share price has swooned.

“It’s not a tech business first,” Challa says of Sonder. “It’s probably a hospitality-first business. I think it probably grew too fast in a way that was unsustainable.”

Sonder’s revenue grew from $60 million when she joined and hit $610 million by the time Challa left in March 2024. She remains a believer in Sonder’s long-term potential. Last month, Sonder signed a licensing deal with Marriott and secured additional financing.

As for her leadership style, Challa says her teams “love her and hate her and I think that’s the best compliment, the one I love. You were the hardest manager, but the one who’s been the most impactful. And it’s because I believe people can reach and do things they think they can’t do.”

– Dennis Schaal

Garine Ferejian-Mayo

Sonesta chief commercial officer.

Garine Ferejian-Mayo, chief commercial officer at Sonesta, has, in her own words, been “tapped on the shoulder” many times to take the next step in her hospitality career.

Ferejian-Mayo arrived in the U.S. at age 11 from Lebanon. Starting at the front desk part-time at a Holiday Inn in Los Angeles while still going to school, Ferejian-Mayo has worked along the way at eight hotel brands, including IHG, St. Regis, Westin, W Hotels, and Fairmont.

She spent a half dozen years working for the management company Interstate Hotels & Resorts. “Every two, three years, they would tap your shoulder to say, ‘Are you ready for your next move,’” Ferejian-Mayo says.

Interstate selected her to become front office manager and then rooms director in Seattle, followed by a stint as director of reservations in San Francisco.

Ferejian-Mayo has managed housekeeping, food and beverage, done revenue management, and overseen sales organizations and commercial operations.

At Sonesta, where she started as chief commercial officer in March 2021, Ferejian-Mayo oversees sales for both managed and franchised properties, global sales, and leads revenue management.

“I’m probably one of the few, as a commercial leader, who knows and understands how each department works, and how it functions,” Ferejian-Mayo says. “And I think that has really built a very strong foundation for me in my career.”

If revenue management seems an unexciting field, Ferejian-Mayo is having none of it. “My God, no,” she says. “It’s not at all. It’s all about strategy. And that’s the passion I have. I’m very, very strategic.”

Ferejian-Mayo recalls that Sonesta generated $1.2 million from “the Taylor Swift impact” – “I want to know her next set of dates to make sure that we’re ready to yield and drive performance.”

She adds: “We also don’t want to gouge our customers. But if the market is demanding $500, you can’t sit there for $200. You’re leaving money on the table.”

Noha Abdalla

Choice hotels cmo.

Noha Abdalla, the chief marketing officer at Choice Hotels, considers herself a problem solver, and she’s had several marketing positions over the years where she’s worked as a quasi-internal consultant charged with taking on a new challenge.

At Choice Hotels, which she joined in 2022, the goal was to expand beyond the company’s traditional focus on the franchisee, and to improve the guest experience. You may have seen the series of Stay for Any You TV commercials, touting Choice brands Comfort and Cambria, for example, and discounts for direct bookings.

Abdalla overseas marketing, loyalty and external communications. “This includes traditional and performance marketing, as well as our CRM channels, and brand creative.”

She almost didn’t become a marketer. “I historically, from high school to college and MBA, was a straight A student,” Abdalla says. “I got one B-plus in my life — in marketing.”

“Fast forward 27 years, I think I had something to prove to that professor,” she quips.

Abdallas’s first marketing job was for the American Red Cross, promoting the need for ongoing blood donations. She subsequently spent seven years at the Discovery Channel, and then Capital One, before she was “tapped on the shoulder by a former boss to go to Hilton and start its Social Media Center of Excellence,” she says. “I got my global job in there.”

When the pandemic hit, Abdalla worked on how to engage with Hilton customers when they weren’t traveling, a matter of considerable internal debate. Her first idea was to share the DoubleTree chocolate chip cookie recipe, but some pushed back that guests wouldn’t visit the hotels if they already had the recipe. She won out and it was a success.

Beyond the chocolate chip cookie, the campaign ended up also revealing the recipe for the Waldorf salad, and touting the fact that the Piña Colada was supposedly invented at the Caribe Hilton in San Juan, she recalls. The origin of the Piña Colada, however, is also open to debate.

While many Hilton owners are institutional investors, when she made the jump to Choice, Abdalla said she had a greater appreciation for working with franchisees, in addition to guests. “Here you are also helping with the American dream and helping build generational wealth for these owners,” Abdalla says.

Abdalla advises women starting their careers to have more confidence in themselves and be willing to take risks.

“I think women — not wanting to make a huge generalization — sometimes tend to have that inner voice that finds all the reasons you’re not as qualified to do a job versus a man,” Abdalla says. “You know what, I got 60% of this, I’m fine.”

Kristie Goshow

Ksl resorts cco.

Kristie Goshow’s career journey, much like her personality, is anything but conventional. Goshow’s love affair with the world began young, inspired by her father’s travels as a petrochemical engineer. “He would come back from these far-off places, full of stories and new languages,” she recalls. “He taught me that it’s safe to leave and try something new.”

Her career started later than most. “I wasn’t ready for university until I was 23,” she admits. “My friends would call me ‘consistently inconsistent.’ I wasn’t built for repetition — unless it’s making a grilled cheese sandwich.”

This wandering spirit eventually led her to jobs at Virgin Atlantic, Le Meridien, Jumeirah Group, Sabre and many other hospitality, travel and technology companies. Working with Virgin Atlantic became a pivotal chapter in her journey. “Every aircraft carries the dreams, hopes, and desires of over 300 individuals,” she says. “Travel is a catalyst for humanity’s growth. It’s a privilege and a great responsibility.”

Her career is a tapestry of experiences across aviation, travel technology, and hospitality. She sees each role as a calculated move, a building block that contributes to her broader vision. The hospitality industry, in particular, has been transformative.

When asked about advice for young aspirants in her field, Goshow, who is now the chief commercial officer of KSL Resorts, emphasizes the importance of open-mindedness and adaptability. “Don’t fixate on titles,” she advises. “Look at the potential impact of your next opportunity. Be willing to step out of your comfort zone.”

Her vision for the industry is encapsulated in her mantra, “Defy the corner chair.” “It’s about challenging irrelevant traditions,” she explains. “Take the ubiquitous corner chair in hotel rooms. To this day, we can still find ‘a corner chair’ in most hotel rooms. What if it wasn’t there? What could that space be used for instead? I wish my legacy will be a ‘what if’ mindset.”

Goshow’s personal passions seamlessly blend with her professional life. Her love for real estate is about unlocking potential, whether in residential or commercial spaces. “It’s like playdough for adults!” she says, delighting in the metaphor.

And then, there’s her love for cooking — specifically, Indian curries. “Growing up in the UK, how could I not love a curry?” she laughs. Chicken tikka masala, Britain’s unofficial national dish, has long been a family favorite. But it’s Madhur Jaffrey’s Butter Chicken that truly holds a special place in her heart.

– Peden Doma Bhutia

Shannon McGehee

Expedia senior director, global hotel partnerships.

Shannon McGehee remembers visiting the Embassy Suites in Orlando at age six, tagging along on her mom’s business trip.

She didn’t get to travel a lot so this trip was special and made a lifelong impression. “I thought it was the epitome of adventure and luxury,” she says. “I thought it was Eloise at The Plaza.”

By age 17, McGehee landed her first job as part of a team that opened a Hilton Garden Inn at Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport. She rotated through virtually every department at the property, and her love affair with the hospitality industry had become part of her DNA.

McGehee resolved to become a general manager of a large hotel but her career took a turn in 2011 when she became revenue manager at Hotwire, an Expedia Group company.

In the early 2000s, McGehee recalls, there weren’t a lot of women hotel general managers.

“I think that only drove my ambition and my seeking roles that challenge the status quo, which then drove me to Expedia,” she says.

McGehee hasn’t become a hotel GM — yet — but since late 2022 she’s served as Expedia Group’s senior director of global partnerships in lodging, and in that role leads a team that negotiates contracts and manages the relationships with nine of the top global hotel chains, from Marriott to IHG and Best Western.

Her advice to other women moving on up? They should be “adaptable and flexible” because industry dynamics always change.

McGehee also points to the power of mentorship, citing Dorothy Dowling, former chief marketing officer of BWH Hotel Group, and Expedia Group CEO Ariane Gorin, as helping McGehee invent her own leadership personna.

“I know just from those two relationships, I’ve been able to help my leadership style, which is around emotional intelligence and analytical rigor,” McGehee says. “And I aspire to one day be one of these ladies that can help the journey of the next generation.”

H.H. Princess Haifa Bint Mohammed Al Saud

Saudi arabia vice minister of tourism.

For most tourism chiefs, the playbook is pretty much the same: Get more people in your country, and have them spend more money. For Princess Haifa Bint Mohammed Al Saud, Saudi Arabia’s vice minister of tourism, her job has one extra mandate: To change the image of the nation.

It’s no easy task. While Saudi Arabia can get headlines with its high-end tourism developments and endorsements from famous footballers, it is still fighting against peoples’ long-held perceptions.

Princess Haifa travels the world, speaks at conferences, and tries to convince people that Saudi Arabia is transforming. Since she took the role in July 2022, international tourism has almost doubled to 27.4 million last year. By the end of the decade, Saudi wants that number to reach 70 million, with an eye on lucrative markets like the UK, India and China.

Princess Haifa has a background in finance. She grew up in Riyadh with her sister and two brothers and attended school in Saudi Arabia, where she was educated in Arabic, English, and French. She studied at the University of New Haven in Connecticut, and earned her MBA from the London Business School. After completing her studies, she worked in banking in London at HSBC.

Outside of tourism, she also chaired the Saudi-Emirati Youth Council and served as Chair and Vice Chair of the Arab Fencing Federation Women’s Committee and the Saudi Fencing Federation respectively, increasing the number of women on the official team from zero to over 200.

Alessandra Alonso

Women in travel founder & managing director.

Alessandra Alonso founded the non-profit Women in Travel after working at the notoriously rough-and-tumble KPMG and finding she was often the only woman in the room.

“I was thinking, there’s something wrong here,” says Alonso. For an industry that’s at least 55% women overall, the lack of female voices at the top was troubling.

So she went to her bosses at KPMG and got the resources to find out why. Alonso did research. She held workshops.

“They [women] said to me, ‘We are not mentored, we are not coached. We don’t know how to network, or can’t network, because the things that happen happen at times of the day when we’ve got other priorities,’” she says. “I can’t play golf. I don’t go to the pub. And, you know, they mistake my lack of presence for lack of ambition.”

So Alonso left the for-profit world and has made it her mission to advance gender inclusion across the travel, tourism, and hospitality sectors. Her career has been a blend of corporate savvy and dedication to diversity and empowerment.

Her advice to young leaders: Be authentic, strategic – and a little bit political.

“If there is one thing that I learned over the years, it is that I wasn’t very patient, and that is not necessarily a good quality,” chuckled Alonso. “When you start, you need as many allies as possible.”

Renowned for her expertise in gender empowerment and mentorship, Alonso has earned her reputation as a thought leader who also champions male allyship in organizations. “Ultimately, there are still many positions that are fundamentally in the hands of white, middle-class men,” says Alonso. “So we need the men in the discussion. We need the men in the conversation.”

In 2021, Alonso was recognized with the JourneyWoman Award, for her impact on gender empowerment. She’s determined to make sure diversity and inclusion aren’t dismissed as feel-good initiatives, but are recognized as key drivers of business performance and concrete results. “As women rise, the idea is that they lift others with them, and therefore they open the floodgates.”

– Sarah Kopit

Hilton Global Head of Hilton Honors

Jenn Chick says she has always focused on the opportunities in front of her without paying too much attention to others. That’s what she believes has allowed her to advance in her career to become the current senior vice president and global head of Hilton Honors and customer engagement.

“I have always maintained a simple focus as I have moved through my career: Do great work and build great relationships,” she said. “Staying committed to delivering your best and building trusted relationships will keep you grounded and ensure you are poised for success no matter what lies ahead.”

Chick is responsible for improving the customer experience and driving expansion of the Hilton Honors loyalty program.

Skift reported in late 2023 that Hilton’s loyalty program was the leader in terms of growth. Its membership grew 110% in the five years through September 2020 to a total of 173 million members.

Hilton Honors recently added two new partners: Outdoor hospitality company AutoCamp and boutique hotel brand Small Luxury Hotels of the World. That means Hilton customers can book stays with those brands through its booking channels, and Hilton Honors members can earn and redeem points through those bookings.

There are two more additions on the way, including “luxury lifestyle” brand NoMad, which Hilton acquired in April 2024, along with the brand Graduate Hotels, which Hilton bought for $210 million.

Chick is a board member for the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C., an annual springtime festival that commemorates the gift of 3,000 cherry trees from Tokyo and attracts 1.5 million visitors.

She lives in Virginia with her husband and three children. They enjoy traveling in their free time, especially to outdoor destinations for hiking and rock climbing.

Google Director of Product Management, Local & Travel

Sophia Lin was behind the evolution of Google Maps from a simple GPS app to a place where people can explore and book hotels, vacation rentals, and things to do, as well as make restaurant reservations and order food delivery.

“I’m delighted whenever people tell me they use Google Maps to explore — it makes my heart happy,” Lin said.

Since Lin started at Google in 2007, she’s also built digital maps from scratch in several new countries.

Now, she is a director of product management for Google Search, overseeing the development of new travel and local experiences. That means one of her jobs is exploring the role that generative AI — namely, Google’s Gemini model — will play in the next iteration of search, from discovery to booking.

Google has already started integrating generative AI into travel-related services, including various trip planning tools in Search and Maps — with much more surely to come.

Lin looks to the phrase “farming for dissent” — coined by Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings — as a guide to her leadership. With this approach, managers and employees are open with each other when evaluating new ideas.

“It’s been a wonderful way to provoke candid, open conversations about hard topics and to keep myself and my teams accountable to building the best products we can for people,” Lin said.

And, she takes inspiration from her father, who she said immigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan to give his children better education and opportunities.

“Growing up, one of the things I saw him do time and time again was to always fight for what he thought was right, even in the face of countless obstacles and setbacks,” Lin said. “That’s stuck with me a lot as I started in my own career – that even when things are hard or I fail, that I can get up, brush myself off, and try again.”

Shannon Knapp

The leading hotels of the world president & ceo.

As President and CEO of The Leading Hotels of the World (LHW), Shannon Knapp’s brief spans more than 400 hotels in over 80 countries. The organization was founded in 1928 and remains the only global collection of five-star independent properties.

Knapp started her current role in 2019, but her tenure and impact at LHW stretches back over a decade. She joined the company in 2013 as SVP & Chief Marketing Officer after holding a range of senior positions at American Express.

It’s no exaggeration to say that Knapp has been instrumental in the growth – and even the survival – of LHW. Taking on the top job just months before the pandemic, she successfully navigated the company and its worldwide members through the crisis. In many ways, the business is now stronger than ever. Evidence, if needed, came in both 2022 and 2023 when LHW reported record-breaking results, with global revenues exceeding $1 billion.

The company’s robust financial performance hasn’t been at the expense of its social and societal goals. Knapp is well known in the industry as a trailblazer for community empowerment and inclusion. It is therefore no accident that within a few clicks of landing on the LHW website, visitors can filter search results by female-owned hotels. These properties, in locations ranging from Italy’s Amalfi Coast to New York City, are all “helmed by the industry’s most influential women,” and fall under the company’s ‘Leading with a Purpose’ mantra.

This ethic goes beyond glossy consumer-facing materials. Under Knapp’s leadership, LHW has made meaningful internal changes too. In 2021, the company’s executive team reached gender parity, while LHW’s wider 200-strong workforce also has a 50/50 gender composition. Knapp has described the importance of building “a new and more inclusive future.” Few would argue that she’s turning talk into tangible results.

Ayesha Molino

Aria and vdara president & coo and mgm resorts international chief public affairs officer.

Ayesha Molino held various roles on Capitol Hill before landing as chief public affairs officer for MGM Resorts. She was an attorney in the Commerce Department, held a stint as the international trade counsel for the Senate Finance Committee, and served as the chief counsel for late Nevada Senator Harry Reid.

Now, she’s a rising star at MGM. In just six years, Molino has climbed her way from senior vice president of government affairs to chief public affairs officer, and more recently, taken on an executive role for Aria Resort and Casino and Vdara Hotel and Spa.

At MGM, Molino leads the company’s corporate communications, public relations and government affairs strategies. And she’s in that role during a turbulent time for the casino hotels industry. The industry essentially shut down during the height of Covid-19 and has dealt with labor shortages.

But now it’s having a comeback — Las Vegas casinos generated a record $15.5 billion in 2023, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

In her role as chief public affairs officer and as vice chair of the Nevada Resort Association, she supported a state Senate bill that would remove daily cleaning requirements at hotels, casinos and resorts.

Nevada initially passed a bill during the pandemic that outlined certain cleaning standards for hotels, but those requirements became difficult for many operators to meet due to widespread staffing issues.

She’s also been an advocate for women in the industry. Molino was recently a part of an event on mentoring young women in the gaming and casino industry hosted by Global Gaming Women, an organization that fosters the career development of women in the gaming industry.

“I owe much of my career to mentors who were willing to spend their time and energy to support, guide, and challenge me,” she wrote in a LinkedIn post. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to pay it forward and encourage my colleagues to seek and provide mentorship when the opportunity arises.”

Edited by Lex Haris. Design and photo treatments by Beatrice Tagliaferri.

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