Hyatt Names Pat Nestor SVP and Head of AI and Data Analytics
The appointment comes as Hyatt has been expanding its AI capabilities across its portfolio of more than 1,450 hotels and all-inclusive properties in 82 countries.
Pat Nestor announced on April 7 that he has joined Hyatt Hotels Corporation as Senior Vice President and Head of AI and Data Analytics.
The announcement was made via a LinkedIn post by Nestor, in which he thanked Eben Hewitt, Hyatt's Chief Information Officer, and Mark Vondrasek, Hyatt's Chief Commercial Officer, for the opportunity. Hyatt has not issued a formal press release on the appointment.
Nestor joins Hyatt from Kraft Heinz, where he served as Head of Decision Intelligence Products and Platforms, a role he assumed in March 2025 having joined the company in 2023 as Global Head of Analytics Products.
At Kraft Heinz, Nestor led the company's Decision Intelligence team and helped launch The Cookbook, an AI agent built on Microsoft Azure OpenAI to educate the Kraft Heinz workforce on product manufacturing processes.
Prior to Kraft Heinz, Nestor served as Global Head of Data, Insights and Analytics at Domino's Pizza Enterprises, the world's largest Domino's franchisee, based in the Netherlands.
Before that he held roles at Domino's Pizza Inc.'s global headquarters in Michigan, including Director of Digital Analytics and Director of International Strategy and Insights. He also held a position at Wayfair as Associate Director of E-Commerce Merchandising.
In February 2026, PRWeek named Nestor to its AI 25 Class of 2026, recognizing leaders driving AI adoption across enterprise operations.
The appointment comes as Hyatt has been expanding its AI capabilities across its portfolio of more than 1,450 hotels and all-inclusive properties in 82 countries.
In February 2026, Hyatt CEO Mark Hoplamazian said the company began its AI enablement effort in January 2024 and has since licensed large language models from Microsoft, Google, Anthropic and OpenAI, all of which are in production at Hyatt, according to the company's Q4 2025 earnings call.
The company rebuilt its website search to allow guests to search in natural language rather than the standard city, date and room type format, with several quarters of data showing stronger booking conversion, higher revenue per booking and longer average lengths of stay.
He also said the company was seeing measurable gains from AI across search, group sales, and internal operations, and revealed the development of a ChatGPT-powered application, according to Skift.