Ellen Meyer
Rockbridge ‘Ready’ For Lifestyle Growth With New Brand
Longtime Rockbridge CEO Jim Merkel recently spoke about how the company he co-founded in 1999 has evolved over the decades. As such, he reflected on his very earliest professional experience—working for a hotel owner...
Developmental Progress: Concord Hospitality’s Mark Laport on the Building Blocks of Growth
President and CEO Mark Laport founded Concord Hospitality Enterprises Company in 1985 as both a hotel management and development firm. He recently shared with LODGING how he—like so many others—stumbled into hospitality and then...
Paving the Way for Black Hoteliers
Galen Barrett, vice president strategic development, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, recently spoke to LODGING about the company’s initiative designed to encourage hotel ownership among Black would-be hoteliers, who may face unique obstacles to their...
Making a Good Impression: Makeready President Christine Magrann on Growing a Unique Brand
A self-described gardener, Makeready President and COO Christine Magrann was tapped by Jimmy Merkel, CEO and founder of investment firm Rockbridge, in 2015 to take on a position that entailed tending to a relatively...
Southern Hospitality: MMI President and CEO Micajah Sturdivant IV on How He and His...
Micajah P. Sturdivant IV, president and CEO of Mississippi-based MMI Hospitality Group, says his family’s 1850s roots in farming are consistent with its embrace of the hospitality industry a century later. The family farm...