Mr. Geller has a professional career spanning over 40 years within the lodging industry. He founded Strategic Hotels & Resorts in 1997 as an industry-leading owner and asset manager of high-end hotels and resorts. The company's portfolio consists of upscale business and convention hotels and resorts in targeted North American and European destinations. Strategic Hotels & Resorts completed its first year as a publicly traded self- administered and self-managed REIT in 2005 and is headquartered in Chicago.
Prior to establishing Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Mr. Geller was Chairman and CEO of Geller & Co., a gaming, tourism and lodging advisory company he founded in 1989. Geller & Co. specialized in domestic and international hotel, corporate and real estate development, financing and structuring. Previously, Mr. Geller held positions as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Hyatt Development Corporation, Senior Vice President of Holiday Inn and Director of London's Grand Metropolitan Hotels.
Mr. Geller is a former Vice Chairman of the Urban Land Institute's Commercial and Retail Council and immediate past Chairman of the Industry Real Estate Financing Advisory Council of the American Hotel and Motel Association (IREFAC). Mr. Geller serves on the Board of Children's Memorial Hospital. He also serves on the President's Council of the Midwest Region of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and is a member of the Real Estate Roundtable. Mr. Geller is Co- Chairman of Trustees of the Churchill Centre and Ambassador for North America for The Hotel and Catering Institutional Management Association of the U.K.
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