Sean Downey
La Quinta Makes Bold Plans for 2016
Coming off of a decidedly mixed 2015 that included a 25.6 percent drop in its stock price (year-over-year) and the departure of longtime CEO...
The Rising Cost of Money
Troubling events in the global economy—stock market volatility, weak growth in China, and plunging oil prices, among others—coupled with a moderate slowdown in industry...
Startup Investing Offers More Than Dumb Money
As managing director of Thayer Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on hospitality technology and backed by one of the Thayer Lodging Group funds,...
Inside Thayer’s Investment Success
Leland Pillsbury is a man in motion. One day he’s flying his jet to State College, Pennsylvania, to give a lecture on embracing disruption...
First Big Break: Lee Pillsbury’s Inside Track to Success
When then-president of Marriott Hotels Fred Malek brought Lee Pillsbury into the senior executive ranks in the early ‘80s, Pillsbury was general manager of...