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Appointments

William White has been named Chief Financial Officer at MCR

Since Mr. White joined MCR in January 2016, he has been an integral member of the management team, serving as a Senior Vice President of Acquisitions and Development based in the company's New York City office. In that role, Mr. White led the company's New York City hotel operations, overseeing day-to-day management as well as the acquisition of The Lexington Hotel, Autograph Collection, and the Royalton Hotel New York. Mr. White also oversaw the firm's acquisition of two software companies — StayNTouch, a cloud-based hotel property management system, and Optii, a software platform that transforms hotel operations. In his new role, Mr. White will lead MCR's finance function, including accounting, fund administration, tax, treasury and human resources.

MCR
New York, New York, United States

Casey Harrison has been appointed as Product Owner of Insight and Integrations at M3

M3, the hospitality sector's #1 cloud-based accounting, financial reporting, and data management platform, announced that Casey Harrison has been promoted to Product Owner of Insight and Integrations. Casey has been a part of the M3 family since December 2017. Starting out his M3 career as a Sales Support Engineer, Casey transitioned to the Product Team in 2019 as a Business Analyst.

M3
Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States

Eric Guerrero has been named Partner at HVS Americas

HVS, a globally recognized hospitality consulting firm, is pleased to announce the promotion of Eric Guerrero to the position of Partner within the Americas region. HVS is the largest consulting firm dedicated exclusively to the hospitality industry, with over 35 offices in the United States.Eric leads the HVS Americas Brokerage & Advisory division, which provides a wide array of asset opportunities and financing solutions. The team has participated in hundreds of hotel transactions with an aggregate value of over $6 billion across the United States. With over a decade of investment sales experience, Eric is well positioned to lead the division's continued growth. He has advised both private investors and institutional clients and has managed hotel transactions of all classes and sizes.

HVS
United States

Girdhar Jangid has been appointed as Director of Finance at The Westin Pune

The Westin Pune Koregaon Park is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Girdhar Jangid, as Director of Finance for The Westin Pune Koregaon Park. In his role, he will be instrumental in the preparation of Capex and operational Budgets with regular forecasting of reports. He will also play a key role in helping drive financial results through optimization of cost and materializing the potential savings.

Marriott
Pune, India

Robert King has been promoted to Chief Accounting Officer at Remington Hospitality

As Chief Accounting Officer, Robert will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of hotel and corporate accounting, including our expanded centralized accounting model, which was launched in 2020. Robert joined Remington in 2013 as vice president of accounting and was promoted to SVP of accounting in 2016. Before joining Remington, Robert served in numerous accounting and finance leadership roles at Hilton Worldwide, supporting areas such as marketing, the loyalty program, information technology, and working in finance and operations for Wilson Hotel Management Company.

Remington
Dallas, Texas, United States

Bobby Lavan has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Bally's Corporation

Bally's Corporation (NYSE: BALY), a global gaming, hospitality and entertainment company with a portfolio of casinos and resorts and online gaming businesses, today announced that Bobby Lavan has been appointed as Bally's Chief Financial Officer. Steve Capp, Bally's current Chief Financial Officer, is leaving Bally's to pursue other interests and opportunities, and will continue to support the business through the end of April.

Bally's Corporation
Lincoln, Rhode Island, United States
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Greg Zabinski has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Capital Markets at Peachtree Group

Greg Zabinski was promoted to executive vice president, capital markets for Peachtree PC Investors. Zabinski holds a bachelor's degree in management with a certificate in finance and a minor in economics from Georgia Tech. Before Peachtree, Zabinski was with Morgan Stanley in private wealth, analyzing and investing in private equity, hedge funds and option-related strategies. He began his career as an investment banker with New York-based Citigroup to help structure credit facilities for Fortune 500 companies.

Peachtree Group
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Michelle Russo has been named Jack A. Shaffer Financial Advisor of the Year at Hotel Asset Value Enhancement (HotelAVE)

hotelAVE is pleased to announce that CEO and Founder Michelle Russo has been named Jack A. Shaffer Financial Advisor of the Year, the most prestigious recognition awarded to the top financial advisor in the hospitality real estate investment industry. The award was presented on January 25, 2022 at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS) in Los Angeles, California.

Hotel Asset Value Enhancement (HotelAVE)
Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Kerry Niprikas has been promoted to Vice President of Finance at Wincome Hospitality

Since joining Wincome Hospitality in January of 2019 as Corporate Controller, Kerry Niprikas has led the finance and accounting for Wincome Hospitality and its entities through unprecedented times. A 30-year hospitality veteran of finance and operations, Niprikas says he has seen his "share of economic swings (the Great Recession) and major travel disruptors (9/11)". Couple this with his past experience at both the property and corporate levels and on various hotel brands including Fairmont, Westin, Marriott, and Hilton, and you have a highly skilled financial executive trained in being flexible and resourceful which was invaluable to leading Wincome Hospitality through the current coronavirus pandemic. This led to his earlier promotion to Corporate Director of Finance and now Vice President of Finance.

Wincome Hospitality
Anaheim, California, United States
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Chad Paris has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at The Marcus Corporation

Prior to joining The Marcus Corporation, Paris served as senior vice president and chief financial officer at Jason Group, Inc., formerly Jason Industries, Inc., a Milwaukee-based global manufacturing company, leading the company's accounting and reporting, financial planning and analysis, tax, treasury, investor relations and information technology functions. Prior to being appointed chief financial officer in 2017, Paris held various leadership roles in corporate and business unit finance at Jason. Earlier in his career, Paris served as audit senior manager for Deloitte & Touche LLP, a global accounting firm and professional services network. Paris holds a master's degree in management with an emphasis in accounting and a bachelor's degree in finance and real estate from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. He is also a certified public accountant in the state of Wisconsin.

The Marcus Corporation
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Nick Galli has been appointed as Regional Director of Finance at Kirkwood Collection

Nick Galli joins the team as Regional Director of Finance. Galli is responsible for ensuring that the portfolio achieves institutional-grade controls, procedures, and reporting to meet USALI-11 compliance as Kirkwood prepares to launch its syndication platform integrating with private equity capital. Prior to joining Kirkwood, Galli was Director of Finance at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs and previously worked at the St. Regis Aspen Resort.

Kirkwood Collection
Beverly Hills, California, United States

Justin Shoener has been appointed as Director of Restaurant Financial Operations at The Indigo Road Hospitality Group

Like Indigo Road founder, Steve Palmer, Shoener's hospitality career began as a dishwasher and touched upon all integral roles within the restaurant, from server to general manager, allowing him an expansive understanding of the granular specifics of the operations. Previously a general manager for the Charlotte locations of IRHG restaurants O-Ku and Oak Steakhouse, Shoener moved to the Carolinas from Orlando, FL to join the Indigo Road team. Prior to that, he spent 11 years as the director of operations for a restaurant group in Orlando. During this time with the group, he opened several restaurants and oversaw a variety of concepts. As a senior leader responsible for financial operations, Shoener works with restaurants on the back-end financials regarding cost of goods, P&L reviews, and efficient reporting. It's not all about the numbers for him, however, as he thrives on mentoring employees to develop and grow in their hospitality careers as he experienced firsthand.

The Indigo Road Hospitality Group
Charleston, North Carolina, United States

Chris Dunne has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer at Atrium Hospitality

Dunne's role has been elevated from CFO of Atrium Hospitality as he assumes oversight of the company's newly created Feasibility and Business Analytics Group. His new role also includes responsibility for loan administration for the enterprise. He joined Atrium Hospitality in 2020, bringing more than 20 years of hospitality operations and finance experience to the newly created CFO role. Prior to Atrium, he worked for InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) for more than 19 years, including as VP, operations finance, Americas. He directed the financial support and business partnering for IHG's largest operating region, spanning the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean.

Atrium Hospitality
Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

Thomas Fink has been promoted to Group Director Finance & Administration at Ruby Hotels GmbH

Also, Thomas Fink has been promoted to Group Director Finance & Administration. In this newly created role, Fink and his staff are responsible for the continued automation and complexity reduction of accounting, payments, cash management, and bookkeeping in order to efficiently handle international growth in the background. The Ruby Group already operates in six countries, with two more to be added shortly thanks to the contractually secured project pipeline. Thomas Fink has already been successfully accompanying Ruby's growth for five years as part of Martin Zilkens' team, Vice President Finance. His promotion is in line with Ruby's elective goal to train and develop junior management staff.

Ruby Hotels
Munich, Germany

Lance Tucker has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Davidson Hospitality Group

Leading hospitality management company Davidson Hospitality Group has appointed Lance Tucker as Chief Financial Officer. In his new role, Tucker will be tasked with overseeing budgetary planning and cost management in alignment with the company's long-term strategy, developing tools and analytical systems to create value and optimize organizational performance against annual budgets, and assisting in the establishment of yearly financial objectives.

Davidson
Atlanta, Georgia, United States