{"id":33700,"date":"2006-08-01T05:55:09","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T21:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2006\/08\/01\/starwood-names-ouimet-hotel-group-president\/"},"modified":"2006-08-01T05:55:09","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T21:55:09","slug":"starwood-names-ouimet-hotel-group-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2006\/08\/01\/33700\/","title":{"rendered":"Starwood Names Ouimet Hotel Group President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven J. Heyer, Chief Executive Officer for Starwood Hotels &#038; Resorts Worldwide, announced that the company has named Matt Ouimet as President, Hotel Group.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ouimet, 47, spent 17 years at The Walt Disney Company, most recently serving as President of the Disneyland Resort. In this newly created position, Ouimet will oversee hotel operations worldwide for the company's nine hotel brands consisting of more than 850 hotels in 95 countries. Reporting to Heyer, Ouimet will also be a member of Starwood's Senior Leadership Team.<\/p>\n<p>\"Starwood is firing on all cylinders after having dramatically reshaped our company, and as we move to the next stage of our transformation, we looked for an executive with the depth in leadership that Matt can provide,\" said Heyer. \"With his background in resort development, marketing and operations, Matt can work across many different disciplines to help us efficiently and effectively execute upon our strategy.\"<\/p>\n<p>Starwood's four Divisional Presidents overseeing hotel operations in North American; Latin America; Asia-Pacific; and Europe, Africa and the Middle East respectively will report to Ouimet, who will be based in Starwood's headquarters in White Plains, New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven J. Heyer, Chief Executive Officer for Starwood Hotels &#038; Resorts Worldwide, announced that the company has named Matt Ouimet as President, Hotel Group.<\/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-33700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33700","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=33700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}