As of June 30, 2008, Wyndham Hotel Group, one of three principal components of Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (NYSE: WYN), encompassed nearly 7,000 hotels representing approximately 581,000 rooms in 65 countries on six continents under the Wyndham, Ramada, Days Inn, Super 8, Wingate® by Wyndham, Baymont Inn & Suites®, Microtel Inns and Suites®, Hawthorn Suites®, Howard Johnson, Travelodge®, Knights Inn® and AmeriHost Inn® brands. All hotels are owned individually and operated independently or by Wyndham Hotel Management. Wyndham Hotel Group is based in Parsippany, N.J. Additional information is available at www.wyndhamworldwide.com.
Wyndham Exchange & Rentals announced the appointment of Bob Milne to the position of president, Wyndham Vacation Rentals North America. In this newly-created role, Milne will be responsible for leading and growing the company’s North American rental businesses which include such well-known brands as ResortQuest, Steamboat Resorts and The Resort Company. He will be based in Parsippany, N.J. and re...
Prior to joining Wyndham, Schafers served as general manager of the 750-room, AAA Four Diamond-rated Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate. Previously, he oversaw hotel operations at the 2,267-room Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin as complex hotel manager. He has also worked in management and operations roles at Westin properties in Atlanta, Ga., and Tampa Bay, Fla.
From 2008 to 2010, Schafers w...
Moss previously served as director of sales and marketing at the luxury, 306-room Conrad Miami. He began his career at The Breakers in Palm Beach, Fla., and has held sales and marketing roles at both independent and branded properties across the United States and the Caribbean, including St. Lucia, Texas, Florida, Arizona, Georgia and California. He attended Western Kentucky University where he r...
Prior to joining Wyndham Hotel Group, Gaston served in distribution and marketing roles for various hospitality and travel companies including long time Wyndham Hotel Group franchisee Ramada Jarvis Hotels as well as Hilton Worldwide and Stakis Hotels.
Most recently Gaston served as the managing director and chief executive officer for Octopus Travel, an online hotel retailer owned by Travelport ...
Wyndham Hotel Group announced the appointment of long-time Wyndham executive Dan Kornick as senior vice president and chief information officer. A seasoned information technology executive with over 20 years of experience, Kornick is tasked with overseeing Wyndham Hotel Group’s IT organization and providing the leadership and vision for the company to deliver against its technology objectives. He...
An accomplished travel distribution executive with more than 26 years of experience at companies including Hilton Worldwide and Sabre Travel Network, Cole will oversee the development and execution of Wyndham Hotel Group’s comprehensive content strategy. This includes where and how hotel property content is stored and published and ensuring that relevant, accurate and complete content is present ...
In her new role, Marchetti will be responsible for leading marketing and innovation efforts for the Wyndham Hotels and Resorts® brand and its affiliated Wingate by Wyndham® and Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham® brands. An eight-year employee of Wyndham Hotel Group, Marchetti previously served in various director-level marketing and strategy roles, most recently as senior director of strategy, loyalty a...
Based in Hong Kong, Huang will be responsible for leading and developing the company’s APAC sales team, executing against Wyndham Hotel Group’s sales strategy and maximizing participation of franchisees in global sales programs. Prior to joining Wyndham Hotel Group, Huang spent more than a decade in senior corporate and property level sales and marketing roles with InterContinental Hotels Group. ...
In his new role, Stull will be responsible for the oversight and execution of key strategic goals for the Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham brand, serving as the primary point of contact for hotel operational issues, focusing on guest satisfaction and franchisee needs. Prior to joining Wyndham Hotel Group, Stull served in management and director level operations roles for various companies in the hospit...
Previously, Korman was senior vice president and general manager at Chase Card Services where she was responsible for overseeing the company’s multi-billion dollar partner credit card portfolio, including development and repositioning of new and existing products and the creation of new acquisition and growth strategies. Prior to Chase, Korman spent seven years with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worl...
In his new role, Sparks will be responsible for the growth and development of the Wyndham Hotels and Resorts brand’s portfolio through management and franchise agreements throughout the Western United States and Western Canada. Prior to joining Wyndham Hotel Group, Sparks served in senior and executive level development roles for some of the world’s most well-known hotel companies and brands, inc...
Conforti joins Wyndham Worldwide with over 25 years of experience in finance, management, strategic planning and capital markets, most recently in the leisure industry. Prior to joining the Company, Conforti was chief financial officer of DineEquity Inc., the publicly-held company which is the franchisor and operator of restaurants under the Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar and IHOP brands. At...
Wyndham Hotel Group, the world’s largest hotel company with more than 7,000 hotels and 11 brands, has promoted long-time Wyndham® brand employee Carla Dunn to vice president of Global Sales for transient and specialty markets, including corporate travel planners and travel agents. Dunn will direct the global management of relationships with key industry clients and segments, including travel mana...
Based in Wyndham Hotel Group’s London office, Armitstead is tasked with increasing the company’s EMEA portfolio through further expansion of its Wyndham®, Ramada®, Days Inn® and Super 8® brands through management contracts and franchise agreements. Armitstead is an accomplished global executive with over three decades of experience and has executed development deals in more than 50 countries. He ...
Guinn will be responsible for the growth and performance of the brand, which currently has a portfolio of more than 1,850 hotels and nearly 150,000 rooms around the world, and will work closely with the brand’s operations and property openings, design and development, franchise services, quality assurance, training, development and marketing teams. He comes to the company after serving more than ...
Rangachari will oversee the Hotel Group’s information technology department and will lead the overall strategic direction for the Hotel Group’s technology efforts, ensuring alignment of the company’s technology vision with its business strategy. Most recently, Rangachari was chief information officer at StarCite, a global leader in meetings management solutions, where he developed technology stra...
Lugli, who joins the company on July 20th, will oversee the Hotel Group’s distribution and e-commerce, loyalty and direct marketing, research and analytics departments, and will work closely with the Hotel Group’s brand marketing teams to lead the overall strategic direction for customer engagement and market positioning for the company. She comes to the Hotel Group from Travelport Limited, one ...
Michael Poynter will be senior vice president and managing director for the EMEA region and will be based in the company’s London office. Poynter, who has over 25 years of hotel operations experience, previously was chief operating officer for Elegant Hotels Group, a London based hotel operations company specializing in upscale and luxury Caribbean resorts. He has served in various operations rol...
Greene will serve as president and managing director for the APAC region and will be based in Wyndham Hotel Group’s Hong Kong office. Greene previously served as group president for Wyndham Hotel Group, responsible for the operations, development, and marketing of the company’s Ramada®, Days Inn®, Howard Johnson® and Travelodge® brands. Prior to that, he served in key executive positions, includi...
Stephen K. Miller will be responsible for the growth of the Wyndham Hotels and Resorts brand’s portfolio through management and franchise agreements throughout the Eastern United States. The appointment marks Miller’s return to the Wyndham® brand, which he served in a senior development role for more than a decade under the former Wyndham International. While there, he was integral in expanding t...
Broussard’s primary focus will be positioning the hotel brands to keep them top of mind with key consumers and influencers, highlighting the benefits and opportunities across brands and reinforcing the Hotel Group’s reputation as a service leader in the hospitality industry for customers, hotel owners and employees. Broussard joins Wyndham from Meeting Professionals International in Dallas where ...
In their new roles as regional vice president of operations, Green and Regan will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Wyndham brand’s managed portfolio of hotels, which includes the 600-room Wyndham Rio Mar Beach Resort and Spa in Puerto Rico and the 224-room Wyndham Garden Hotel – Midtown Convention Center in New York. Kevin Regan previously served in executive-level o...
In their new roles as regional vice president of operations, Green and Regan will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Wyndham brand’s managed portfolio of hotels, which includes the 600-room Wyndham Rio Mar Beach Resort and Spa in Puerto Rico and the 224-room Wyndham Garden Hotel – Midtown Convention Center in New York. John Green previously served in executive-level op...
Wayne Susser previously served in executive-level operations roles with Hilton Hotels Corporation and Marriott. Most recently, he was senior director of international brand support for Hilton’s Doubletree brand in Beverly Hills, Calif., responsible for managing international relationships with potential ownership groups and management companies. As vice president of operations, Susser will overse...
Tim Rector previously held executive-level sales and marketing positions with Starwood and LXR Luxury Resorts and the former Wyndham International. Most recently, he was area vice president of sales and marketing for Starwood in White Plains, N.Y. Based in Florida, he oversaw sales and marketing operations for the company’s managed resorts in the Caribbean. In his new role as vice president of re...
Bill Scanlon previously held executive-level sales and marketing positions with Marriott International and HEI Hotels and Resorts. Most recently he was president of Strategic Solution Partners, a lodging and hospitality consulting firm in Drexel Hill, Pa., responsible for the development and implementation of the company’s overall business strategies. In his new role as senior vice president of s...
Wyndham Hotel Group announced the appointment of lodging industry veteran Linda Kent as senior vice president of electronic distribution. An expert in the areas of global distribution systems, reservations and account management, Kent will be responsible for global revenue generation through third party distribution channels and the strategic direction and development of the company’s branded Web...
Sean Worker has been promoted from senior vice president to executive vice president of international operations. He will continue to lead operations functions for Europe, the Middle East and Africa as well as the Asia Pacific region and have indirect responsibility for the communication, coordination and execution of all cross-functional initiatives in those geographic areas.
The company’s revenue producing functions will be led by Ross Hosking. As executive vice president of global sales, he will oversee the sales department and hotel operations centers. Hosking joins the company from Starwood Hotels and Resorts.
Duane Elledge will work across disciplines to ensure that programs and initiatives are developed with the customer – franchisees and guests – in mind. Elledge will oversee the training and re-licensing functions. Elledge was previously the Hotel Group’s executive vice president of brand services.
As chief performance officer, Daniel del Olmo will take the lead in setting the company’s strategy and optimizing its performance. In this role, he will be responsible for developing and overseeing the Hotel Group’s long-term growth plan. Del Olmo previously served the company as vice president of strategy and innovation
Jim Alderman has been appointed executive vice president of development, responsible for growing the company’s Wyndham Hotels and Resorts® flagship brand globally and its other brands outside of North America. He joined the company from Starwood Capital Group.
With more than 25 years of culinary experience, Quigg joins the Wyndham Nassau Resort team most recently from Sandals Whitehouse, Jamaica, where he served as executive chef for three years, delighting guests with his fusion of Asian, Italian, French, Caribbean, Southwest and American cuisine.
Wagoner will be responsible for the portfolio of managed and franchised upscale Wyndham® hotels and the franchised midscale Wingate® by Wyndham chain. He will succeed Peter Strebel, who is stepping down after nearly four years with the brand and eight years with the company to spend more time with his family and pursue other interests. The appointment marks a homecoming for Wagoner, who served th...
Based in the company’s Parsippany, N.J. offices, Flores will be responsible for overseeing the development and execution of Wyndham Hotel Group’s global human resources strategies, including talent selection, talent management, workforce planning and administration. She brings to the company more than 15 years of progressive human resources experience from a variety of industries including techn...
Danziger most recently was CEO of WhiteFence, an online one–stop comparison shopping and transaction site for home services, and prior to that, served as CEO of a startup online real estate company, ZipRealty. “I am extremely excited to return to the hospitality industry and help to lead and grow Wyndham Hotel Group's business and portfolio of 12 brands encompassing nearly 7,000 franchised and ma...
Edwards is responsible for Wyndham Hotel Group’s information technology systems and revenue management services including reservation platforms, property-based systems, enterprise-wide data warehouse, brand web sites and call centers, global distribution systems and sales, third party reservation providers and international systems and services.
Keith Pierce will be promoted to president, brand operations, the Americas, responsible for overall strategy, revenue growth, product quality, global brand standards and customer satisfaction of nine hotel brands. Reporting to Pierce will be Ken Greene, group president of the Days Inn ®, Travelodge®, Howard Johnson ®and Ramada ® brands; John Valletta, president, Super 8 ®; Roy Flora, group presid...
Duane Elledge will be responsible for strategic direction and leadership oversight for Wyndham Hotel Group’s core operational departments and key franchisee-facing services including franchise communications, quality assurance, global training, design, construction and procurement services, group operations, property openings and conversions, brand identity and franchise administration.
Elledge ...
Wednesday 24 September 2008
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Wyndham CEO Stephen Holmes comments on Q2 2011 Earnings
Discussing Q2 earnings at the hotel company and its outlook for the second half of the year, with Stephen Holmes, Wyndham Worldwide chairman/CEO.
Stephen Holmes, Chairman and CEO of Wyndham at PhoCusWright
Wyndham Interview at Arabian Hotel Investment Conference (AHIC)
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