Maxine Taylor New HAMA president Maxine Taylor brings 30 years hospitality industry experience and a career largely dedicated to the discipline of hotel asset management, including her current role as a senior vice president with CHMWarnick, a leading hotel asset management and owner advisory company. Formerly she served as executive vice president of asset management at Chartres Lodging Group and vice president of asset management at Capital Hotel Management. Prior to that, Taylor also worked with Horwath Landauer Hospitality Consulting, The Ritz-Carlton hotels in Fla. and Ga., and served as a professor of hospitality management at Edison Community College. Prior to her appointment as HAMA president, she served as international chair and has played an active role in many other industry organizations, such as the Consumer Innovation Forum (CIF), the former Association of Sheraton Franchisees of North America (ASFONA) and former Starwood Owners Advisory Council. She also was voted Top 100 Most Influential Women in the East Bay in 2011 by the San Francisco Business Times. Taylor received her master’s in Hospitality Management from Florida International University in Miami, is a Certified Hotel Administrator (CHA) and is a United States Army Veteran, having spent three years in the military as a telecommunications specialist in Korea and Germany. A regular speaker on asset management and hotel ownership issues, she is a featured panelist at the upcoming 2018 Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS) on the topic of asset optimization.