17-Jul-15 – The Langham, LondonHouse, and Trump International Hotel & Tower are all getting new hotel managers.

LondonHouse, currently being built at the London Guarantee Building at North Michigan Avenue & East Wacker Drive, has announced its first hotel manager. Jermaine Anderson (left) will manage 250 employees when the hotel opens next spring.

“Jermaine has extensive experience in hotel openings along with a proven ability to develop first class, service-focused teams,” says George Jordan, senior vice president of operations for Oxford Hotels & Resorts, developer and co-owner of the hotel.

A 22-story addition is being built next to the London Guarantee Building, allowing LondonHouse to offer 452 rooms. It will be part of Hilton Worldwide’s “Curio” brand when it starts taking reservations later this year.

Anderson, a native of Chicago, was the hotel manager when The Godfrey Hotel opened on West Huron Street in River North. He has also worked at Raffaello Hotel on East Delaware Place, one block east of Michigan Avenue.

The new hotel manager at Trump International Hotel & Tower has moved to Chicago from Washington, D.C. Elizabeth Vita-Finzi was most recently hotel manager of the Mandarin Oriental, rated four star by Forbes Travel Guide and four diamonds by AAA.

“The associates that comprise the Trump Chicago team are among the very best in the business,” says Vita-Finzi (left).

She replaces Philipp Posch, who was promoted to general manager of the Trump Vancouver hotel that will open next May in British Columbia. Posch has already moved to the Canadian province with his wife and daughter, according to a Trump spokesperson.

And while a new manager has not yet been announced, The Langham is apparently without the manager that opened its 316-room hotel on floors 2-13 of the 52-story AMA Plaza in 2013.

Since May, Joe Aguilera has been regional director of marketing at The Peninsula on East Superior Street in River North. He manages sales for the hotel in the Midwest United States and Canada.

Aguilera (right) was director of sales and marketing for The Langham for about nine months before it opened. Another hotel manager had been hired but before the hotel opened, Aguilera was promoted.

He was previously vice president of sales and marketing for Elysian Hotel Chicago, now Waldorf Astoria Chicago, and director of marketing at Four Seasons Hotel Chicago.

The Langham did not respond to an inquiry about the hotel’s progress with replacing Aguilera.