CHICAGO – Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG), the membership association that unites the world's hospitality companies and technology innovators to solve industry challenges, today announced several changes to its Board of Governors. HTNG's Board drives the organization to address the most pressing technology problems facing hotels, and the presence of senior technology executives from almost all major hotel companies ensures the industry relevance of our activities for all hotel managers, owners and franchisors. The board's new officers are:
"As an information technology and hospitality industry executive, I'm keenly aware of the challenges and opportunities that are presented to our industry by the ever-evolving technology landscape," said Jeremy Ward, Senior VP of Information Technology at Kempinski Hotels and new President of HTNG. "HTNG has been instrumental in facilitating the collaboration that enables our industry to use technology to solve problems, improve guest satisfaction and operate more effectively through more efficient technology planning and deployment."
These officers, like all board members, volunteer their time to provide direction to HTNG. Ward succeeds Marriott's Jim Peterson, who left the Board following a change in his responsibilities at Marriott International. Peterson has been involved with HTNG for nearly 10 years, and will remain engaged as an Executive Advisor to the Board. "Jim Peterson has provided exemplary leadership and counsel to HTNG as both its President and an HTNG member over a 10-year period in which information technology has undergone significant change," said Doug Rice, Executive Vice President and CEO of HTNG. "We owe a great debt of gratitude to Jim for his service and we look forward to his continuing contributions."
Hank A. Weigle, Senior Vice President of Global Information Resources, IT Delivery at Marriott, was elected to fill the vacancy created by Peterson's departure. Also elected was Jeff Bzdawka, VP of Global Property Systems Portfolio. Former Hyatt CIO Mike Blake, now CIO at Commune Hotels and Resorts, retains his board seat.
Other new members who have joined the board over recent months include:
Continuing on HTNG's board, a group which manages technology for more than 2.4 million guest rooms worldwide, are:
To ensure vendor neutrality, HTNG's Board of Governors consists exclusively of hotel IT executives. Senior executives from the vendor community participate in HTNG's Vendor Advisory Council, which advises the board and ensures that the vendor community and the board are aligned on key issues of mutual interest.
To learn more about the HTNG Board of Governors or Vendor Advisory Council, visit http://www.htng.org/leadership.
Part of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA), HTNG the premier technology solutions association in the hospitality industry, HTNG serves members from hospitality companies, technology vendors to hospitality, consultants, media and academic experts. HTNG's members participate in focused workgroups to bring to market open solution sets addressing specific business problems. HTNG fosters the selection and adoption of existing open standards and also develops new open standards to meet the needs of the global hospitality industry.
Currently more than 400 corporate and individual members from across this spectrum, including world leading hospitality companies and technology vendors, are active HTNG participants. HTNG's Board of Governors, consisting of 22 top IT leaders from hospitality companies around the world, itself has technology responsible for over 3 million guest rooms and world-leading venues. HTNG publishes workgroup proceedings, drafts and specifications for all HTNG members as soon as they are created, encouraging rapid and broad adoption. HTNG releases specifications into the public domain as soon as they are ratified by the workgroups.
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