Barry Bloom President and Chief Operating Officer, Xenia Hotels & Resorts
Jessica Coane Director of Sales and Marketing, Mariott & Springhill Suites
Barry A.N. Bloom, Ph.D. is president and chief operating officer of Xenia Hotels & Resorts, Inc., an NYSE-listed real estate investment trust. Additionally, he currently is an adjunct faculty member at Florida International University. From 2011 to 2013, Bloom served as an associate professor of practice in the School of Hospitality Administration at Boston University. From 2008 to 2011, Bloom co-founded and was a principal of Abacus Lodging Investors LLC. Previously, he was Executive Vice president of Portfolio Management & Administration with CNL Hotels & Resorts, Inc. And, prior to CNL, he served as Vice President, Investment Management for Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Bloom has also worked for Tishman Hotel & Realty, VMS Realty Partners, and Pannell Kerr Forster (now CBRE Hotels). Bloom received his B.S. in Hotel and Restaurant Management as well as an MBA from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Hospitality Management from Iowa State University.
Jessica Coane is director of sales & marketing at the Atlanta Marriott Northwest at Galleria and the Springhill Suites Atlanta Northwest. She is responsible for the development and implementation of sales and marketing strategies to generate revenue for the hotel. Coane joined the Marriott in 2019. Previously, she was the Director of Sales & Marketing at the Hilton Atlanta Northeast, the Atlanta Marriott Peachtree Corners and the Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center. Coane is a graduate of the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Hospitality Management. She began her hospitality career working front office operations with Walt Disney World Resorts at the Polynesian Resort. After several years in operations, Coane found her passion in sales and has never looked back. She resides in downtown Woodstock, Ga. with her husband and two children.
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