Whiteface Lodge Appoints New GM, Executive Chef and Spa Director
Shawn Goodway has joined the Forbes Four Star Whiteface Lodge as general manager, bringing nearly three decades of upscale hotel management experience. Goodway comes to the High Peaks from the Saratoga Hilton in Saratoga Springs, New York, where he began in 2008 as director of finance and was elevated to general manager in 2010. Prior to that, he was at Saratoga’s historic Gideon Putnam Resort & Spa for 20 years, serving as controller/IT manager and then general manager.
Also new to the all-suite resort are Executive Chef Brandon Schatko and Spa Director Mark Lumpkin. Schatko joins Whiteface Lodge’s premier restaurant Kanu and more casual Kanu Lounge from Top of the Pontch in Detroit, where he was named Best Chef 2016 by the Detroit Metro Times. Schatko was one of the Motor City’s youngest executive chefs at 21, having worked as executive banquet chef at the Twin Lakes Golf Club in Rochester, Michigan and executive chef at the Andiamo Detroit Riverfront in Detroit. He describes his cooking style as “a little bit country and a little bit rock and roll.”
Lumpkin – a multifaceted spa and fitness operations leader, wellness practitioner and professional educator with two decades of experience – joins the 8,000-square-foot Spa at Whiteface Lodge from the Hotel Hershey Resort & Spa in Pennsylvania, where he was manager of spa services and education. Prior to that, he worked at the St. Louis Jewish Community Center and the AAA Four-Diamond Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin, Texas, among others. An expert at building comprehensive integrated wellness programs, Lumpkin holds numerous advanced degrees, including a Ph.D., and professional certifications in massage therapy and fitness.
About Whiteface Lodge
Whiteface Lodge is situated adjacent to the alpine village of Lake Placid, New York, home to two Winter Olympics games. Conceived by a former Olympian and modeled after the Adirondack Great Camp, this rustic resort was completed in 2005. Whiteface Lodge is an all-suite property boasting 94 guestrooms, a three-story great room, KANU, a fine dining restaurant, Kanu Lounge, Spa Cafe, 24-hour room service, a grab-and-go retail outlet featuring regional specialties, Lake Placid’s only resort spa and two hand-crafted, luxury lean-tos, unique to the Adirondacks. For reservations or additional information, visit www.theWhitefaceLodge.com or call 518-523-0500.
