Yael Ron

Yael Ron is the Chief Hospitality Officer of Residential Properties for Silverstein Properties. She is responsible for managing the company’s hospitality and residential divisions.

An acclaimed hospitality executive, Yael has successfully led hotels across the globe from Tel Aviv to San Francisco and New York. Prior to joining Silverstein, she served as Managing Director of the Leading Hotels of the World (LHW) Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York, where she was in charge of all operational aspects including recruiting of the core team, curating the brand culture and managing the business plan, budget and all marketing channels. Prior to that role, she was the General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco, where she became the property’s first female general manager, and one of only nine female general managers in the Ritz-Carlton portfolio.

Yael spent nearly a decade with The Ritz-Carlton company where she was the General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton, Cleveland and Director of Sales and Marketing for the opening of The Ritz-Carlton, Herzliya and facilitated the opening of The Ritz-Carlton in Macau, China. Prior to joining The Ritz-Carlton company in 2013, Yael worked at The Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv, following a decade with Hilton Hotels where she began her hospitality career as a Senior Sales Manager.

Yael holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Hotel Management from Technion Israel & Nova University, Florida, and an MBA from City University of New York, Baruch College. She is fluent in several languages, having lived, studied and worked throughout the world, to include the United States, Central America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.