Summit Hotel Properties Executive Chairman Kerry W. Boekelheide Steps Down

Summit Hotel Properties | August 4, 2015

Thomas W. Storey will assume the role of Chairman of the Board effective July 30, 2015. AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 4, 2015 -- Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. (NYSE: INN) (the "Company") today announced that Founder and Executive Chairman Kerry W. Boekelheide has stepped down from his role effective July 30, 2015. "I am leaving at a time when the Company is on a great path and it is consistent with my personal plans to pursue hotel development on a full-time basis. The Board afforded me the opportunity to begin pursuing this last year and I am excited to get back to my roots of hotel development," said Kerry W. Boekelheide. "In my thirty years, I...