Ted J Kleisner is to become the new president and CEO of Hershey Entertainment & Resorts (HE&R), succeeding the retiring Scott Newkam.

At 62 years of age, Kleisner recently retired as president and CEO of the Greenbrier Resort and Club Management Company, which owns and manages the world-famous 6,500-acre Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Long active in West Virginia civic organisations, Kleisner and his wife Karen are relocating to Hershey in Pennsylvania.