New Solitude president named

Solitude Mountain Resort in Big Cottonwood Canyon near Salt Lake City has announced that Amber Broadaway has been selected as its new president and chief operating officer. Broadaway comes to Solitude from Sugarbush Resort in Vermont, where she has served as vice president of guest services and safety. Her appointed is effective June 1. She will be responsible for all of Solitude’s operations and for driving the success of the resort by continuing to elevate the guest and employee experience, according to a release from Alterra Mountain Co., the resort’s owner.

Broadaway started at Sugarbush as manager of risk and safety in 2013 and as vice president of guest services and safety, she has expanded her role and responsibilities and oversees risk and safety, guest services, parking operations and the public events operational departments, as well as communications and public relations, on-site brand management and charitable giving and donations.
“I am honored that Alterra Mountain Co. has chosen me to succeed the inspiring work of Kim Mayhew at the helm of Solitude Mountain Resort,” said Broadaway. “I am most looking forward to collaborating with the Solitude team to achieve the goals we will set for next season and the many years ahead. Solitude is a very special place and I am excited to amplify all it has to offer. My family and I are looking forward to calling Solitude our home mountain.”

“Solitude Mountain Resort in Utah is a special place with extraordinary potential, and Amber is the ideal person to bring the destination to new heights,” said Mark Brownlie, chief operating officer of the company’s mountain division, Alterra Mountain Co. “Amber’s wealth of operational, communications and employee experience, combined with a genuine love of the mountains, will help elevate all that Solitude has to offer to its guests and employees.”

Solitude Mountain Resort offers eight chairlifts, 82 runs, three bowls, and 500 annual inches of snow spread over 1,200 acres for skiing and snowboarding.