The Patriot-News, Harrisburg,
Pa.McClatchy-Tribune Business News
Dec.
7, 2006 - --Two weeks after Scott J. Newkam announced plans to retire,
Hershey
Entertainment & Resorts Co. has ended the search for his successor
as
president and CEO.
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Ted J.
Kleisner, 62, who recently stepped down as president and CEO of
Greenbrier
Resort and Club Management Co., will replace Newkam at Hershey
Entertainment on
Jan. 1.
Late last month, Newkam, 55, announced that he will retire Dec. 31 to
spend
more time with his family. He's been president and CEO at Hershey
Entertainment
since September 1999 and was named chairman in April 2000.
Kleisner spent the past two decades at The Greenbrier, a 6,500-acre
resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.,
and the company's properties in the Bahamas,
Bermuda, the British West Indies, Florida,
Georgia and Wyoming.
"Ted Kleisner is the ideal person to take Hershey Entertainment &
Resorts to the next level of greatness, and, in so doing, to further
support
and fuel the legacy of Milton S. Hershey," LeRoy Zimmerman said
Wednesday
in a statement.
Zimmerman, the former state attorney general, was elected chairman of
the
Hershey Entertainment board of directors and also will begin his new
duties
Jan. 1.
Kleisner, a graduate of the University of Denver School of Hotel,
Restaurant
and Tourism Management, began his career in 1967 with Albert Pick
Hotels Corp.
in Chicago and later had jobs with
Hilton Hotels
Corp., the Southampton Princess in Bermuda and the Boca Raton Resort
and Club
in Florida.
During his long tenure at The Greenbrier, one of Kleisner's duties was
overseeing the top-secret federal government project called Project Greek Island.
A huge nuclear
bomb shelter 70 feet beneath the resort was to serve as the relocation
site for
members of Congress and the Supreme Court in the event of nuclear war.
Project
Greek Island
was declassified in 1995.
"Hershey Entertainment & Resorts advanced considerably under Scott
Newkam's leadership," Zimmerman said in his statement. "I am
absolutely certain that Ted Kleisner will propel us further still. It
is a coup
to land someone of his national gravitas."
Kleisner, who has served on the Hershey Entertainment board of
directors since
1996, also is on the board of trustees of the Culinary Institute of
America and
the board of directors of the American Hotel and Lodging Association.
With his new job, Kleisner and his wife, Karen, will be moving to
Chocolatetown.
"Hershey is one of the most remarkable communities in the world,"
Kleisner said in a statement. "We want to become part of it in every
way."
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