The advisor

Hospitality is engrained in her.

Samantha grew up in Napa Valley, inside an industry built on the art of making people feel welcome. That upbringing shaped a particular eye: for the difference between a room that has been cleaned and one that has been prepared around whoever is walking through the door, for the detail that earns no credit because everything is exactly right, for the gesture that arrives before it is asked for.

That sense of taste runs alongside a career built on knowing how to execute. Years in luxury hospitality at Auberge Resorts, including opening the Commodore Perry Estate alongside Ken Fulk Inc., trained an instinct for experience at every scale. Time in technical project management added the systems thinking to match: the ability to manage complexity, anticipate what can go wrong, and deliver something that feels effortless because the work behind it was not.

As a luxury travel advisor, she designs itineraries around what makes a trip genuinely memorable rather than what is easiest to book. Membership in the world's leading hotel consortia opens doors that are not available through standard channels: upgrades, credits, and recognition that arrive without being asked for. Every reservation, transfer, and contingency is handled quietly in the background.

Whether it is a honeymoon built around how you actually like to travel, a multi-generational trip that has to work for everyone, or a corporate program that has to run without a single loose end, the standard is the same. Thoughtful, thorough, and nothing left to chance.