Joint Managing Director and Co-Founder
Jackie Cowell
Background
Jackie has over 30 years’ experience in sales and marketing in the luxury hotel sector. Following a degree in Hotel and Catering Management at the University of Surrey, Jackie studied for a Chartered Institute of Marketing Diploma. The early years of her career were spent with Hyatt International. She then joined The Savoy Group of Hotels and Restaurants and became Director of Sales where she centralised and managed the sales team for The Savoy, The Connaught, Claridge’s, The Berkeley, The Lygon Arms and La Trémoille in Paris.
At Pineapple
Alongside Andrew Wall, Jackie is jointly responsible for the leadership and direction of Pineapple UK & USA. Jackie also applies her expertise to short-term strategic projects such as marketing plans and budgets, feasibility studies and sales & marketing audits.
Jackie was Sales and Marketing Director for One Aldwych, London from before the hotel’s launch in 1998 to May 2018. She was also Sales and Marketing Director for Carlisle Bay, Antigua until 2013 and directed the sales and marketing for the resort’s launch in 2003.
Jackie has developed a great deal of experience at Pineapple launching city centre, country house and resort hotels across European, North American and Caribbean markets.
Contributing to our Clients’ Success
Jackie’s broad experience and her analytical strengths enable her to provide expert advice to Hotel Owners and General Managers. Her hands-on knowledge of luxury hotel sales and marketing, business channels and markets, enables her to put the correct sales and marketing resources and procedures in place for a hotel and to direct the team’s time to the markets and channels that will deliver the best return on investment.