White Lodging Names Conner White Vice Chair and Chief Investment Officer

White Lodging presented that Conner White will rob on a brand new position as vice chair and chief funding officer. Conner White is the eldest son of White Lodging Chair Beth White and the slack White Lodging Founder Bruce White.
Jean-Luc Barone will continue in his position as White Lodging’s CEO, partnering with Conner, the White household, and the corporate’s Board of Directors on ideas and investments that assist recede up development via acquisitions and new-get resorts, underpinned by the corporate’s management operations.
“Conner and Jean-Luc’s collaboration has been severe in navigating the a form of enterprise challenges and opportunities of the final two years, in conjunction with financing availability, elevated prices, and muted commerce development,” acknowledged Beth White. “With the toughen of the final executive workers, I’m confident in White Lodging’s future as a multi-generational household-owned organization firmly built on the values Bruce laid 40 years ago.”
Conner White became concerned with the advance, constructing, and opening of White Lodging’s two latest properties in San Antonio that opened in 2024: Kimpton Santo Hotel and Plaza San Antonio Hotel & Spa, Autograph Series. In slack 2024, he also played a position in securing the closing main aspects to destroy ground on the corporate’s Thirteenth hotel in Austin, Texas. Moreover, he led the corporate’s development efforts, which integrated securing the land and launching the advance job for White Lodging’s 2nd hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina.
“I’m overjoyed to lead the next period of White Lodging household leadership in carrier of our company, mates, and householders,” acknowledged Conner White. “In accordance to our history, we’re no longer trying to be the most reasonable, correct the very handiest at what we attain. To that pause, we’re successfully positioned to sustainably develop via new city hotel developments, strategic acquisitions, and growth of our third-occasion management portfolio—within our most in vogue and focused new markets across the United States.”
“There’s no greater match for this main position as White Lodging celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2025,” acknowledged Barone. “Conner has a imaginative and prescient and fervour for the hospitality commerce that mirrors his father’s, and I’m overjoyed to be alongside him as we push White Lodging to withhold our reputation as an commerce chief.”
Conner White has labored for White Lodging for better than 15 years in a diversity of leadership roles across operations, actual estate, and new property constructing. Out of doors of White Lodging, he built his career with roles supporting the growth of Lettuce Entertain You Restaurant Neighborhood in Chicago and Dunkin Donuts in China.
White Lodging has developed better than 210 new resorts since its founding in 1985. The corporate for the time being owns and/or manages roughly 60 excessive-pause city and daily life resorts with nearly 15,000 rooms below the Marriott, IHG (Kimpton), Hyatt, and Hilton brands.