As head of hotel operations for Millennium Partners, Pamela Malkani is the company's key liaison and strategist working with its five-star hotel partners, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company and Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. Its a job that puts her at the front line of operations and asset management for Millennium, which has established itself as a major developer of luxury hotels in the U.S. with a portfolio of five Ritz-Carlton and two Four Seasons properties in five cities.

Ms. Malkani, a senior lodging industry executive, joined Millennium is 1996 expressly to help the developer implement a hotel business strategy. One of her key areas of focus has been the successful introduction of The Phillips Club, the company’s extended-stay lodging and fractional membership residence in Manhattan, which opened in 1997. Located directly across from Lincoln Center, the 180-room, 10-story Phillips Club has become New York’s premier residential fractional club-hotel, a concept spearheaded by Ms. Malkani.

Prior to Millennium, she spent five years as director of sales and marketing for the U.N. Plaza-Park Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan (1991-96). From 1983-91 she worked at the 2200-room New York Hilton & Towers, rising from a Sales Trainee to the hotel’s Director of Marketing and member of the Executive Committee.

A native of Bombay, India, Ms. Malkani, came to the U.S. in 1983, having previously served as Director of Sales & Marketing for the Fariyas Hotels & Resorts in Bombay, as well as catering sales manager for the renowned Taj Mahal Intercontinental in Bombay. She is a graduate of the Institute of Hotel Management and Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition.