Rebecca Tillman

Rebecca Tillman leads the kitchens as Executive Chef at The Phoenician and The Canyon Suites. Her hospitality career began in 2000 at The Arizona Biltmore, while she was still in culinary school. She holds a hospitality administration degree from Northern Arizona University and a culinary arts degree from the Art Institute of Phoenix, completed in 2001. Her earlier posts include Executive Chef at the Biltmore House and The Inn on the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, Executive Sous Chef at Destination Kohler – The American Club in Wisconsin, and Executive Chef at Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort in Phoenix. Most recently she was Executive Chef at The Ritz-Carlton Bacara in Santa Barbara. She joined The Phoenician in 2017 as Executive Sous Chef and later returned as Executive Chef. Outside the kitchen, she is a national board member and chef mentor for the Careers Through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP), takes part in the Chefs in School initiative, and gives input to several industry advisory boards.