March 7, 2013

Don Willingham has been appointed as VP brand performance support and sales, for the Hilton Garden Inn brand at Hilton Worldwide

Updated January 26, 2015

Willingham joins the Hilton Garden Inn team most recently as senior director, brand sales, Homewood Suites and Home2 Suites by Hilton. He has more than twenty years of hospitality experience, ranging from brand sales support, training and operations. Willingham graduated from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville with a bachelor of science in Business Administration and a major in marketing. After graduating college, he worked for several hotels in the Atlanta area and went on to become the general manager at two Atlanta Hampton Inn hotels. He joined Promus Hotels in 1994 as a training manager, where he was responsible for sales, pre-opening, and leadership development training. He later moved on to regional operations and development training for the Hampton, Embassy Suites, Homewood Suites and Doubletree brands. Since 2000, Willingham has played a vital role in the Homewood Suites brand serving as a regional brand performance support director with responsibility for more than 30 hotels, as well as facilitating the brand's extended stay sales training. He moved into the senior director, brand sales role in 2003 and was integral in the launch of the Home2 Suites by Hilton brand, as well as creating and leading the Homewood Suites sales strategies and programs.

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