Hilton Celebrates International Women’s Day

Hilton Hotels & Resorts celebrated International Women’s Day (IWD) 2021 by highlighting on three successful ladies from its staff to share their stories of success.

International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality.

The following are the three success stories of Hilton’s women:

Salma Bakr, Learning and Development Manager, Hilton Alexandria Green Plaza, Egypt

Salma Bakr is the Learning & Development Manager at Hilton Alexandria Green Plaza. Salma joined Hilton eight years ago as an HR officer. However, her journey with Hilton started before that when she collaborated with Hilton Green Plaza for her graduation project from Business Administration school. Only four days after her graduation she became a Team Member at the same hotel.

Describing her career at Hilton, Salma says “For 8 years now, Hilton supported me as a person, a young adult and a female to become the experienced L&D Manager that I am today. I am extremely proud that because of my role at Hilton I had the chance to advocate for Diversity and Inclusion and break all the stereotypes in our culture by conducting internships for female technicians in the Engineering department.

This was the first time to have females in the Engineering department, but definitely not the last, as I am sure that Hilton will give me many more chance to create an environment where everyone can thrive and be their authentic selves.”

Ingy Helal, Regional Director of Procurement for Egypt & North Africa at Hilton

Ingy Helal is the Regional Director of Procurement for Egypt & North Africa at Hilton. In 2018, Ingy was one of the 10 winners  of the Hilton’s Thrive Sabbatical program, and was granted 1,000 USD in addition to a one month leave to work voluntarily to support a community based project within her region. Ingy chose the UNICEF’s “Meshwary” project as her focus to support mainly young women to become leaders in the Middle East. Her objectives were supporting diversity and encouraging women in hospitality, by offering professional training to a pool of candidates and selecting best calibers to be offered jobs when available. To date, Hilton’s collaboration with Meshwary resulted in training 13 young ladies, as well as offering 13 jobs in Hilton hotels across Egypt. As a result of the success of this initiative, Hilton expanded the agreement with the UNICEF to offer 750 internship and job opportunities in Egypt to the youth over five years.

Ingy started her career at Hilton 14 years ago as a purchasing administrative with a goal set to lead this function regionally by the age of 35, which she successfully achieved through hard work and determination.

Marwa Kasrawi, Cluster Commercial Director for Hilton Alexandria Green Plaza & Hilton Alexandria King’s Ranch

Marwa Kasrawi is the Cluster Commercial Director for Hilton Alexandria Green Plaza & Hilton Alexandria King’s Ranch. Marwa joined Hilton in 2002 and enjoys 22 years of experience in the Hospitality industry.

Throughout her career at Hilton, Marwa managed to drive outstanding results; showcasing her leadership skills and winning the EMEA Director of Sales of the year 2016 and the No. 1 award during Hilton’s Global Week of Sales in 2018.

Marwa was also chosen to represent Hilton in MEA during the podcast held in London celebrating Hilton’s 100 years.