COMPANY

Maintains 150 upscale hotels under the various Wynhdam brands, and as Summerfield Suites, and an additional 40 hotels franchised from other brands such as Hilton or Crowne Plaza. Major shareholder is Apollo Investment Fund. The company was acquired by the Blackstone Group in 2005. Parts of Wyndham International were dispersed to Goldman Sachs, Columbia Sussex, and the Wyndham brand itself to Cendant. When Cendant dissolved itself in 2006, Wyndham and its other hotels became Wyndham Worldwide.

Official Website:
http://www.wyndham.com/

Industry:
Hotel

Ticker:
AMEX:WBR

Corporate headquarters:
Dallax, TX

Sales:
$1.25B (2003)

Employees:
22,000 (2003)

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Harlan Crow	Business	1950		Chairman and CEO, Crow Holdings
Fred Kleisner	Business	c. 1944		CEO of Wyndham International

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Leon Black	Business	c. 1951		Billionaire, Apollo Management

BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Fred Kleisner	Business	c. 1944		CEO of Wyndham International
Eric Press	Business	c. 1965		Apollo Management
Marc J. Rowan	Business	c. 1961		Billionaire, Apollo Management
Scott M. Sperling	Business	c. 1958		Thomas H. Lee Partners
Lynn Swann	Football	7-Mar-1952		Pittsburgh Steelers receiver

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