Company · Real Estate · Business Services · founded 1969
Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Hotel and resort company, founded in 1969 as the REIT Hotel Investors Trust. Barry Sternlicht acquired and reorganized it in 1995 and was chairman until 2005. Marriott International acquired it in 2016.
Of the 1 person here linked to Starwood Hotels & Resorts, 0 are founders and 0 are still there. 1 of them also appear at The Estée Lauder Companies. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
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1 person at Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Executive Past
Role
Chairman and CEO, 1995–2005
Source
· medium confidence. Wikipedia says he acquired and reorganized the company in 1995 and was chairman until 2005. The Barry Sternlicht article says he became CEO in January 1995.
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Barry Sternlicht
Founded Starwood Capital Group in 1991 with money from two wealthy New York families, then used a hotel REIT to build Starwood Hotels & Resorts (Westin, Sheraton, W) before returning to run the private firm full time
middle-class · well-connected · graduate degree
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