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Jackson Hole Mountain Resort shared in a press release Monday that CEO Mary Kate Buckley will retire at the end of May.
During her time at the region’s largest wintertime employer, Buckley led mountain operations through the pandemic, added new lifts and oversaw the creation of a hundred employee housing units.
“The successes of the past seven years are a testament to the incredible team of employees I’ve had the privilege to lead,” Buckley said in the press release. “With the smooth transition from Kemmerer ownership to the Corbat and Macy families, I feel this is the right time to step down.”
After being at the helm since 2018, Buckley is handing off leadership to current COO, Doug Pierini, who will begin overseeing daily operations this week.
Before being named COO at JHMR last July, Pierini held the same position but at Vail Resorts, where he oversaw the conglomerate’s operations on the West Coast of the U.S., Whistler Blackcomb in Canada and at three Australian resorts.
Though he has called several of Vail Resorts’ mountains home more recently, Pierini isn’t new to Jackson. In the 1990s, he spent a decade working at JMHR’s Mountain Sports School.