About Us
We are North Carolina's premier hospitality recruitment team.
Why Gecko Hospitality?
Are you searching for great hospitality management employees in the North Carolina area? Looking for an opportunity to advance your career and achieve your dreams? Trust the recruiters at Gecko Hospitality.
Here, we focus exclusively on hospitality executive recruitment. Our reputation of trustworthiness, reliability, and partnership has been cultivated over more than two decades of service in the industry. Gecko’s recruiters in North Carolina have worked in hospitality roles themselves — that means they’re in an ideal position to understand your needs and goals.
If you’re looking for a new role, we can match you with an opportunity that suits your unique talents and experience. If you’re hiring, we’ll work hand-in-hand with your business to connect you with top-tier candidates.
Our individual-first approach lets us make accurate, lasting placements that benefit job candidates as well as the North Carolina business we serve.
Megan Applegate & Chris Shatto
Husband and wife power couple, Megan Applegate & Chris Shatto, have teamed up to become one of the top hospitality executive recruiting firms in North Carolina. Together, they have over 45 years of combined industry-specific experience in hotel Sales, Catering, Food, and Beverage, and Operations.
We help recruit for the following industries; Vacation Rentals, Hotels, Country Clubs, Event Planning and Rentals, Casinos, Cruise Lines, Bed and Breakfasts, and Conference Centers.
Megan has served on the Board of Directors for the Charlotte chapter of the National Association for Catering & Events for over 7 years and will be become the President of the Charlotte Chapter in 2022.
We bring exclusive insight to our clients by truly understanding their needs in order to match them with the right candidate. As hospitality talent recruiters, our number one priority is to be trusted advisors for our clients so they can continue to build strong reputations in the community and marketplace by building talented, well-rounded management teams.
Connecting people and cultivating relationships is our passion why we do what we do best!
Andrew Keenan
Executive Recruiter
With hospitality experience all over the Southeast, including over a decade in management, Andrew uses his natural leadership skills and diverse experience in hospitality to leverage candidates into positions where they will not only thrive, but help their team grow. His commitment to improvement earned him a degree in Business Management, Administration, & Operations, as well as continuing education in hospitality and tourism management and athletic operations. Andrew's ability to put teammates in positions to succeed developed early from time spent in leadership roles in collegiate team sports as player and coach. His team-first attitude helped facilitate successful openings of luxury properties, thriving bar programs in high-volume venues, and craft cocktail spirit programs in fine dining establishments. Evident from his beginning as a dishwasher in school through his progression through various executive roles, Andrew's belief in being the hardest working person in the room shines through for the team.
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Our Hospitality Recruitment Code of Ethics
Our Code of Ethics allows every member of our recruiting team to maintain our high standards. These guiding principles bind us:
- Candidate information will be accurate and complete.
- Candidates will be screened and interviewed by a professional recruiter before being presented to a client.
- Gecko Hospitality will never present a candidate’s information to a client without consent.
- All client information will be kept confidential.
- Gecko Hospitality recruiters or franchise partners will not solicit active professionals placed by Gecko Hospitality.
- Gecko Hospitality will provide complete candidate profiles to clients, never withholding information clients need to make the best hiring decisions.
