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Legna Santiago

Global Director, People & Culture at Ace Hotel / Atelier Ace

Legna Santiago currently serves as the Global Director of People & Culture at Ace Hotel / Atelier Ace, a position held since March 2025. Prior to this role, Legna was the Director of People & Culture at Golden Age Hospitality, overseeing HR functions for multiple venues in NYC. Legna's extensive experience in human resources includes positions as Human Resources Director at Casamata Restaurant Group, where an HR department was established, and at Orange Brands Management, where Legna restructured HR operations for an international restaurant group. Earlier roles include Senior Human Resources Business Partner at Union Square Hospitality Group, Human Resources Manager at MAC Cosmetics - Estee Lauder Companies, and Human Resources Generalist at Dean & Deluca. Legna holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Stony Brook University.

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Ace Hotel / Atelier Ace

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Ace Hotel Ace Hotel is a collection of individuals — multiple and inclusive — seeking to embrace the cities we live in by building spaces for collective gathering. Whether thoughtfully reinterpreting historic buildings or imagining radical new structures, our aim is always to make something energized, human and soulful. Our hotels are inspired by an affinity for the soulful and fueled by our love for the hyperlocal. A study in contrasts, Ace Hotel marries the pragmatic with the romantic, the private with the collective, the old world with the future. We are guided by empathy and compassion, and believe that the best things in life take conviction, guts and community. The way we do anything is the way we do everything. Atelier Ace Atelier Ace is Ace Hotel’s in-house creative, marketing, events, interior, architecture and graphic design team. We’re a curious hybrid — romantics with an unswerving business savvy, easy-going yet driven, casual but elegant. We architect event spaces, rooms, nightly magic, branded campaigns, curios and keepsakes and see the hotel as a potential for real, fluid community. With everything we do, we try to collaborate with and celebrate people whose work inspires us. We like the stories that come with things and think that wherever you are, you should feel like you’re there.