Dr. Bjorn R. L. Hanson Ph.D. serves as Independent Director of the Company. Dr. Hanson has been a member of the Board since the completion of our initial public offering, or IPO, in February 2011. Dr. Hanson served as our Lead Independent Director from June 2015 to January 2017. Dr. Hanson has worked in the hospitality industry for more than 40 years and has been involved in consulting and investment banking in the lodging sector. He joined the New York University School of Professional Studies in June 2008 as a clinical professor teaching in the school’s graduate and undergraduate hospitality and tourism programs and directing applied research projects. In 2010, he was appointed as the divisional dean of that school’s Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management, which he served as until returning to his full time faculty role in 2014 and now serves as Adjunct Clinical Professor. Dr. Hanson founded the hospitality, sports, convention and leisure practice and held various positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Coopers & Lybrand, including National Industry Chairman for the Hospitality Industries, National Service Line Director for Hospitality Consulting, National Industry Chairman for Real Estate, Real Estate Service Line Director and National Director of Appraisal Services. Additionally, he served on the U.S. leadership committee and global financial advisory services management committee of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Dr. Hanson was also managing director with two Wall Street firms, Kidder, Peabody & Co. and PaineWebber Inc., for which he led banking and research departments for lodging and gaming. Dr. Hanson is an active lodging consultant, including as an expert witness, and researcher producing widely-published reports in major news media. Dr. Hanson received a B.S. from Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, an M.B.A. from Fordham University and a Ph.D. from New York University.
As the Independent Director of Summit Hotel Properties Inc, the total compensation of Bjorn Hanson at Summit Hotel Properties Inc is $176,615. There are 12 executives at Summit Hotel Properties Inc getting paid more, with Daniel Hansen having the highest compensation of $5,009,720.
Bjorn Hanson is 68, he's been the Independent Director of Summit Hotel Properties Inc since 2011. There are no older and 14 younger executives at Summit Hotel Properties Inc.
Bjorn's mailing address filed with the SEC is 13215 BEE CAVE PARKWAY,, SUITE B-300, AUSTIN, TX, 78738.
Over the last 14 years, insiders at Summit Hotel Properties Inc have traded over $6,173,230 worth of Summit Hotel Properties Inc stock and bought 169,125 units worth $1,664,152 . The most active insiders traders include Kerry W Boekelheide, Daniel P Hansen a Kenneth J Kay. On average, Summit Hotel Properties Inc executives and independent directors trade stock every 124 days with the average trade being worth of $460,099. The most recent stock trade was executed by Jonathan P Stanner on 16 March 2023, trading 21,870 units of INN stock currently worth $150,903.
summit hotel properties, inc. is a publicly traded real estate investment trust focused on owning premium-branded hotels with efficient operating models primarily in the upscale segment of the lodging industry. as of november 3, 2020, the company's portfolio consisted of 72 hotels, 67 of which are wholly owned, with a total of 11,288 guestrooms located in 23 states.
Summit Hotel Properties Inc executives and other stock owners filed with the SEC include: