Hilton promotes Ansu Du Plessis, Cindy Valentine

International hotel group Hilton has made a couple of promotions at its Africa and Indian Ocean operations. Ansu Du Plessis has been promoted as the regional director of revenue management, Africa & Indian Ocean and Cindy Valentine will replace her as commercial director of Southern Africa.

Du Plessis has over two decades of experience in the hospitality industry and joined Hilton back in November 2017 as cluster commercial director based in Cape Town and then later moved to Sandton to oversee the Southern Africa cluster.

Following her promotion, Cindy Valentine has been appointed as commercial director in Southern Africa. Valentine most recently served as director of sales for the shared services sales team, managing the key accounts for Hilton across the portfolio.