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Anupam Narayan
President & Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Narayan has been our President and Chief Executive Officer since February, 2008. He has been with the company since November 2004. From 2004 to February 2008, he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer. Mr. Narayan has nearly 25 years of experience in the hospitality industry. From 1998 to March 2004, he served in various capacities as an executive officer of Best Western International Inc., including his most recent position as Senior Vice President, Global Brand Management and Chief Financial Officer and a three-month period as Acting President and Chief Executive Officer during 2002. From 1985 to 1998, Mr. Narayan was employed by Doubletree Corporation and Red Lion Hotels, Inc., serving as Senior Vice President and Treasurer immediately prior to his move to Best Western.
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Anthony F. Dombrowik
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Dombrowik has served as our Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer since April, 2008. Prior to that, he served as the Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer. Mr. Dombrowik has been with Red Lion Hotels Corporation since May 2003. Mr. Dombrowik was previously employed as senior manager at the public accounting firm of BDO Seidman, LLP, where he served as an auditor, certified public accountant and consultant from 1992 to 2003. Mr. Dombrowikâs public accounting practice focused on auditing and consulting for mid-market public companies, with particular attention to consolidations, capital and debt transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and the hospitality industry. While in public practice, Mr. Dombrowik represented BDO Seidman, LLP on the Red Lion Hotels Corporation audit engagement.
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Thomas L. McKeirnan
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Mr. McKeirnan has been our Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary since February 2005. Prior to that he served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary from January 2004 through February 2005 and Vice President, Assistant General Counsel from July 2003 to January 2004. Prior to joining us, Mr. McKeirnan was a partner at the Spokane, Washington law firm of Paine Hamblen Cofflin Brooke & Miller LLP from January 2002 until July 2003 and an associate attorney at the same firm from 1999 to 2001. Mr. McKeirnan was also an associate attorney with the Seattle, Washington law firm of Riddell Williams P.S. from 1995 until 1999. Mr. McKeirnan's private legal practice has focused on corporate, transactional, real estate and securities law, with an emphasis on the hospitality industry. While in private practice, Mr. McKeirnan represented us as outside counsel on various strategic and transactional matters and also represented WestCoast Hotels, Inc. prior to our acquisition of that company.
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George Schweitzer
Executive VP and Chief Operating Officer, Hotel Operations
Mr. Schweitzer has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Hotel Operations since November 2009 and is a member of the senior leadership team for RLH. He has nearly 30 years of experience in the hospitality industry. George joined RLH in April 2008 as Senior Vice President, Hotel Operations. In 2001, George founded LaborSage, Inc., which developed labor scheduling software. His company was subsequently sold to UniFocus, L.P. out of Dallas, TX in August, 2006. Mr. Schweitzer was the President of the VenQuest Hotel Group, based in Irvine, CA and Vice President Operations for Sunstone Hotels. Prior to that, George was a Regional Vice President for Red Lion Hotels & Inns for 12 years. George is a Certified Hotel Administrator with a background in Business Administration. He attended the University of Montana, California State University Long Beach and UCLA.
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Barry A. Hughes
Senior Vice President, Distribution & Marketing
Mr. Hughes has served as Vice President, Distribution & Marketing at Red Lion Hotels Corporation since November 2002. Mr. Hughes is a member of the senior management team for our company and oversees distribution and revenue management, call center operations and marketing. From December 1999 to November 2002, he was Executive Vice President of Electronic Media and Corporate Strategy for Proximus Information, LLC in New York, New York. From November 1998 to December 1999 he served as Vice President of Electronic Media at Cahners Business Information Travel Group in Secaucus, New Jersey. From August 1994 to November 1998 he served as Director of Sales and Marketing at Trase Miller in Oak Brook, Illinois.
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David Barbieri
Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Mr. Barbieri has been with our company since 1996 and serves as Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Mr. Barbieri is a member of the senior management team for Red Lion Hotels Corporation and is responsible for the company's information technology initiatives ranging from network and application infrastructure to Internet-based application design and e-commerce. Before joining our company, Mr. Barbieri worked as an engineer for a data backup hardware manufacturing company.
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Krisann Hatch
Vice President, Human Resources
Ms.Hatch has served as the Vice President of Human Resources for Red Lion Hotels Corporation since 2002 and is a member of the senior management team. Ms. Hatch had previously been with Hilton Hotels for 13 years, starting her hotel career in 1989 with Red Lion Hotels and serving in the role of Director of Human Resources at six different hotels throughout the Pacific Northwest and through each of the numerous mergers - from Red Lion to Doubletree to Promus to Hilton. In 1999, she became the Regional Director of Human Resources for Hilton Hotels, responsible for up to 42 hotels in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, California, Alaska, and Colorado. Ms. Hatch is a Senior Professional, Human Resources through the Human Resources Certification Institute and serves on the Board of the Spokane Chapter of the Northwest Human Resources Management Association.
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