New General Manager for Pan Pacific San Francisco

Sileshi Mengiste has been appointed as the new General Manager of the Pan Pacific San Francisco. Mengiste succeeds Jacques Villeneuve who was General Manager for the last three years.

Prior to his appointment, Mengiste was most recently Executive Director of Hotel Operations for the 2,700 room, Wynn Resort in Las Vegas. Additionally, Sileshi held General Manager assignments at The St. Regis in Houston and San Francisco’s Four Seasons Clift Hotel as well as management positions with The Orchard Hotel (formerly The Rex) in San Francisco, San Francisco’s Sir Francis Drake Hotel and Insel Hotel in Bonn, West Germany.

Born in Ethiopia, Mengiste is a graduate of Kenya Utalii College in Nairobi, Kenya as well as San Francisco’s Golden Gate University. He is returning to the San Francisco Bay Area with wife and two children.

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