Frederick J. Kleisner serves as Independent Director of the Company. Mr. Kleisner was appointed to our Board in September 2016. Mr. Kleisner held a long illustrious career in the industry, serving as President and a director of Hard Rock Hotel Holdings, LLC, a destination casino and resort company, from October 2007 until March 2011. He also served as Chief Executive Officer of Morgans Hotel Group Co. (NASDAQ: MHGC), a hospitality company, from December 2007 until March 2011, as President and Chief Executive Officer (including interim President and Chief Executive Officer) from September 2007 until March 2009, and as a director from February 2006 to March 2011. Prior to his time at Morgans, Mr. Kleisner was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Rex Advisors, LLC, a hotel advisory firm, from January 2006 to September 2007. From August 1999 to December 2005, Mr. Kleisner served as President, Chief Operating Officer and, from March 2000 to August 2005, Chief Executive Officer of Wyndham International, Inc., a global hotel company. Mr. Kleisner also has served as Chairman of Wyndham International's board from October 2000 to August 2005. He served as President and Chief Operating Officer of The Americas for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. Hotel Group from January 1998 to August 1999. He has held senior positions with Westin Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, where he served as President and Chief Operating Officer from 1995 to 1998; Interstate Hotels Company, where he served as Executive Vice President and Group President of Operations from 1990 to 1995; the ITT Sheraton Corporation, where he served as Senior Vice President, Director of Operations, North America Division-East from 1985 to 1990; and Hilton Hotels Corp., where for 16 years he served as General Manager of several landmark hotels. Mr. Kleisner graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A. in Hotel Management, and currently serves as a Real Estate Investment Management Advisory Board member of Michigan State Univers
As the Independent Director of Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc, the total compensation of Frederick Kleisner at Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc is $189,169. There are 11 executives at Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc getting paid more, with Montgomery Bennet having the highest compensation of $3,110,740.
Fred's mailing address filed with the SEC is 14185 DALLAS PARKWAY, SUITE 1200, DALLAS, TX, 75254.
Over the last 21 years, insiders at Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc have traded over $30,532,187 worth of Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc stock and bought 2,473,418 units worth $20,401,910 . The most active insiders traders include Capital Preferred Growth In..., Monty J Bennett e Archie Jr Bennett. On average, Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc executives and independent directors trade stock every 72 days with the average trade being worth of $43,411. The most recent stock trade was executed by Mark Nunneley on 6 March 2024, trading 9,161 units of AHT stock currently worth $7,604.
ashford hospitality trust, inc., together with its subsidiaries (“ashford”), is a self-advised real estate investment trust (“reit”) focused on investing in the hospitality industry across all segments and in all methods including direct real estate, securities, equity, and debt. we commenced operations in august 2003 with the acquisition of six hotels in connection with our initial public offering. we own our lodging investments and conduct our business through ashford hospitality limited partnership, our operating partnership. ashford op general partner llc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ashford, serves as the sole general partner of our operating partnership. our strategy is to invest opportunistically in the hospitality industry in upper upscale, full service hotels and at all levels of the capital structure primarily within the united states. we target assets that are anticipated to generate revpar below twice the current u.s. average revpar for all hotels as determined by smith tr
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