Executive Profile
Monday, May 31, 1999

Name: Katy Sinclair Britzmann
Age: 36
Position: Director of sales and marketing, Hyatt Regency Kauai Resort & Spa
First job: Newspaper delivery, Idaho
Favorite pastimes: Kayaking, hiking

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Building momentum at
Hyatt Regency Kauai

The 602-room Hyatt Regency Kauai Resort & Spa at Poipu has promoted Katy Sinclair Britzmann to head sales and marketing.

"We've had a record occupancy this year," Britzmann said. "We just opened our Web site in April and expanded our business center."

She said Kauai visitor counts are up since United Airlines started direct flights last June.

Britzmann most recently was the Hyatt resort's associate director of sales. In her hotel industry career, she worked as assistant director of sales for the Kauai Hilton and national sales manger for The Westin Kauai before leaving in July 1992 for the mainland. After five years in sales for Westin in Seattle, she returned to Kauai and joined Hyatt.

She earned a bachelor's degree in business, majoring in marketing and management at the University of Idaho.Britzmann and her husband, Dan, have a daughter, Sophie, 3.

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By Jerry Tune, Star-Bulletin