Dallas, TX – Leo Spriggs, President and CEO of Hospitality Management Corporation (HMC), is pleased to announce the promotion of Chris Julian to Regional Director of Operations for the South Texas Region. Julian previously held the position of General Manager for the Wyndham Garden Hotel in Lafayette, Louisiana, a property currently managed by HMC. He will be taking over the responsibilities for the previous Regional Director Carl Haynes who will be retiring after 18 years of service with the company in Mid-June.
Replacing Julian at the Wyndham Garden Hotel will be Peter Ambros. Ambros was instrumental in the success of a previously managed HMC property, the Crowne Plaza Astor in New Orleans and will be taking on his new role on June 1st. The company is delighted to bring back a well-established leader in hospitality and former employee of HMC’s management team.
Gerald Morris, Vice President of Operations shared, “Chris has done an outstanding job over the past two years guiding the Wyndham Garden Hotel Lafayette through a substantial rebranding and we foresee great things moving forward as he transitions to his new role.” The company continues its ongoing business expansion which is made up of full service, conference center, select service and limited service hotels. HMC is one of the country’s largest third-party privately held hotel management companies, ranked in the top 40 of all third party and owner operated hotel management corporations.