Brian Hicks

IHG® (InterContinental Hotels Group), one of the world's leading hotel companies, announces that it has named a versatile IHG leader into a new senior leadership position - Brian Hicks, Senior Vice President, Commercial and Revenue Management, Americas.

Hicks has more than 30 years of international hospitality experience - the majority of which has been with IHG, including more than ten years working in the Americas region. He was promoted from his previous role as VP, Global Revenue Management Strategy. In his new role, Hicks will lead the Revenue Management function and the Commercial team in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean, and will be responsible for overseeing and integrating all revenue-generating strategies, initiatives, programs and plans to drive competitive commercial performance across the region. In addition, he will lead the Americas Revenue Strategy Committee, working with Global and Regional Revenue leaders.

Hicks' broader leadership experience includes time as the Chief Operating Officer of TMI Hospitality, a developer and management company of select service and extended stay hotels, where he managed nearly 200 hotels across 26 states in the U.S. Earlier in his career, he also gained hotel operations experience in multiple on-property roles at Ritz-Carlton. Hicks holds a degree in Hotel & Restaurant Management from the University of Wisconsin and Studies in Business Administration from the University of Minnesota.

Hicks reports directly to Elie Maalouf, Chief Executive Officer, Americas.