{"id":33673,"date":"2006-07-22T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-22T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2006\/07\/22\/starwood-hotels-names-new-global-development-president\/"},"modified":"2006-07-22T08:04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-22T00:04:00","slug":"starwood-hotels-names-new-global-development-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2006\/07\/22\/33673\/","title":{"rendered":"Starwood Hotels Names New Global Development President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starwood announced that Raymond L. \"Rip\" Gellein, Jr, has been promoted to President, Global Development.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In this new corporate position, Gellein, currently the Chairman and CEO of the Starwood Vacation Ownership business, will take on overall management responsibility for the full range of Starwood's real estate-related functions.<\/p>\n<p>This encompasses all Starwood development activities, including hotel, resort and residential development; vacation and fractional ownership; property acquisitions and dispositions; hotel management contracts; franchise pipeline expansion; capital planning and allocation; portfolio management; feasibility studies; and design and construction.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Darnall, currently President of Starwood Real Estate Group since 2002, has stepped down in order to develop a fund specifically focused on building aloft and Extended Stay by Westin hotels, two brands which he helped create.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starwood announced that Raymond L. \"Rip\" Gellein, Jr, has been promoted to President, Global Development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}