White Lodging introduced that Conner White will tackle a brand new position as vice chair and chief funding officer. Conner White is the eldest son of White Lodging Chair Beth White and the late White Lodging Founder Bruce White.

Jean-Luc Barone will proceed in his position as White Lodging’s CEO, partnering with Conner, the White household, and the corporate’s Board of Administrators on methods and investments that assist speed up progress by way of acquisitions and new-build resorts, underpinned by the corporate’s administration operations.

“Conner and Jean-Luc’s collaboration has been important in navigating the assorted enterprise challenges and alternatives of the final two years, together with financing availability, elevated prices, and muted trade progress,” mentioned Beth White. “With the help of the whole government workforce, I’m assured in White Lodging’s future as a multi-generational family-owned group firmly constructed on the values Bruce laid 40 years in the past.”

Conner White was concerned within the improvement, development, and opening of White Lodging’s two latest properties in San Antonio that opened in 2024: Kimpton Santo Lodge and Plaza San Antonio Lodge & Spa, Autograph Assortment. In late 2024, he additionally performed a job in securing the ultimate particulars to interrupt floor on the corporate’s thirteenth resort in Austin, Texas. Moreover, he led the corporate’s progress efforts, which included securing the land and launching the event course of for White Lodging’s second resort in Charlotte, North Carolina.

“I’m thrilled to guide the subsequent technology of White Lodging household management in service of our visitors, associates, and homeowners,” mentioned Conner White. “In keeping with our historical past, we aren’t trying to be the most important, simply the easiest at what we do. To that finish, we’re nicely positioned to sustainably develop by way of new city resort developments, strategic acquisitions, and growth of our third-party administration portfolio—inside our present and focused new markets throughout the USA.”

“There’s no higher match for this essential position as White Lodging celebrates its fortieth anniversary in 2025,” mentioned Barone. “Conner has a imaginative and prescient and keenness for the hospitality trade that mirrors his father’s, and I’m thrilled to be alongside him as we push White Lodging to take care of our fame as an trade chief.”

Conner White has labored for White Lodging for greater than 15 years in quite a lot of management roles throughout operations, actual property, and new property improvement. Outdoors of White Lodging, he constructed his profession with roles supporting the growth of Lettuce Entertain You Restaurant Group in Chicago and Dunkin Donuts in China.

White Lodging has developed greater than 210 new resorts since its founding in 1985. The corporate presently owns and/or manages roughly 60 high-end city and life-style resorts with almost 15,000 rooms below the Marriott, IHG (Kimpton), Hyatt, and Hilton manufacturers.