Ann Fastiggi
Consultant, Global Consumer Practice, specializing in hospitality and leisure, Spencer Stuart
Ann Fastiggi is a member of Spencer Stuart’s Global Consumer Practice specializing in hospitality and leisure. With more than 20 years of executive recruiting and leadership consulting experience, she focuses on the recruitment and assessment of CEOs, CFOs, CMOs and other C-suite executives in the hotel, restaurant, gaming, consumer travel, consumer and retail sectors.
Over the past 20 years, Ann has helped clients complete more than 250 searches for executives in a variety of functional areas, including general management, marketing, sales, development, operations and finance. Ann has also played an integral role in a number of CEO searches within the hospitality sector.
Committed to improving diversity, Ann has a strong track record of placing female and other diverse candidates within the industry. Ann is currently involved in an industry initiative to understand and improve diversity in the C-suite of the hospitality and leisure industry.
Prior to returning to Spencer Stuart in 2018, Ann was a managing director with a global boutique search firm, where she led the hospitality and leisure practice, after spending several years as managing director with another global search firm.
From 2002 to 2009, Ann played a pivotal role in establishing Spencer Stuart’s hospitality and leisure practice. She spent time on the client side with Time Inc. earlier in her career. Ann began her career in hospitality where she served in a marketing and sales capacity for a tour operator.
Ann is passionate about the hospitality industry, the people serving in the industry and the profound effect that it has on the world economy. Her commitment to her professional relationships, her understanding of clients’ unique cultures and her curiosity around the people have helped her remain fully engaged as a leadership advisor.
Her daughter Juliana will be a freshman at Boston University in the fall of 2019.