Yvette Thomas- Henry , general manager of Four Seasons Resort Nevis and a regional vice president , sees herself as a role model .
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Yvette Thomas- Henry , general manager of Four Seasons Resort Nevis and a regional vice president , sees herself as a role model .
Contributed by DEBBIE CARLSON
ecoming general manager of Four
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Seasons Resort Nevis and Four Seasons regional vice president is a homecoming for Yvette Thomas-Henry .
Born on the island of St . Thomas , she grew up in St . Croix and spent two years in St . Kitts as a child before moving to the U . S . But Thomas-Henry says she never saw herself returning to the Caribbean until she became a regional vice president and began overseeing two of Four Seasons ’ Caribbean resorts .
“ Then all of a sudden it became so real that coming back was something that felt right , and when this opportunity presented itself , it was just , yes , it ’ s time to go home ,” she says .
Thomas-Henry , 52 , joined the Four Seasons Resort Nevis on January 2 after a four-year stint as regional vice president and GM at the Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta .
She is steeped in luxury : Her first job was as a front
RUNWA OPPORTUN desk agent at The Plaza in New York City in 1987 . She took the job to help pay for college , as she was attending the local Pace University for speech-language pathology . “ I wanted to work somewhere fun ,” Thomas-Henry says — and to meet celebrities , which is why she wanted to work the front desk .
Even after graduating and then receiving a master ’ s in administration and human services at Audrey Cohen College , she still was having fun . At the time , she gave herself two years to see if she would have opportunities to excel in the industry . She never left .
38 hotelsmag . com April 2020