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A 27-year veteran of Four Seasons, Mehdi Eftekari named as General Manager of Four Seasons Hotel New York. Eftekari originally joined the company as Food Beverage Manager of Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills shortly after the property opened in 1988. In 1992 he relocated an hour south to become Hotel Manager of the former Four Seasons Hotel Newport Beach, and four years later was named General southwest airlines vacation packages Manager. In 2004, Eftekari rejoined the Los Angeles hotel as General Manager, and from there headed cross-country to take the helm at East 57th Street on the edge of Manhattan s Upper East Side.
Eftekari s appointed to New York came just a few days short of this 30th year in the hotel industry in Southern California. A native of Tehran, Iran, he arrived in the United States to study first English at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, then business management and marketing at Louisville University, Kentucky, from which he earned a bachelor southwest airlines vacation packages s degree. Unable to break into management in the corporate sector, he followed his lifelong passion for food and beverage southwest airlines vacation packages to become assistant manager of a hotel restaurant at the Louisville southwest airlines vacation packages address of an international hotel group in 1980. Soon enough, he was relocated to the Pacific southwest airlines vacation packages Coast and there he stayed.
During 11 years as General Manager of Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles, Eftekari successfully weaved his way into the fabric of the community, southwest airlines vacation packages becoming integral to the efforts of several local non-profit organizations (actor Morgan Freeman southwest airlines vacation packages once invited him to help launch a relief organization), southwest airlines vacation packages esteemed by the entertainment industry (Oscar nominee Terrence Howard told People magazine that Eftekari was the third person he called after receiving southwest airlines vacation packages his nomination, because he s been such a great supporter ), and trusted by the hotel team. It was unbelievable to me the see the number of staff I started with in Los Angeles who remained eager to learn, grow and be inspired, he says.