Name: Michael J. Slosser
Age: 39
Position: General manager, Manele Bay Hotel
First job: Dishwasher, Holiday Inn, Palmdale, Calif.
Favorite pastimes: Tennis, golf

"Our occupancy will be 94 percent in April and we've been in the high 80s and 90s in the first four months (of 1997)," Slosser said.

He has 17 years of hotel management experience, most recently as director of resort operation at La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif. Slosser also has been resident manager at the Beverly Hilton Hotel; director of rooms, food and beverage at the Stouffer Nashville Hotel; front office manager, reservations manager, and banquets manager at the Westin Hotel Cincinnati; and operations director at the Harbor Court Hotel in Baltimore, Md.

He earned a bachelor's degree in business and hotel management from Michigan State University.