Hyatt Names Pat Nestor SVP and Head of AI and Data Analytics

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.