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Ted Knighton is president of hotel operations for Interstate Hotels & Resorts. He is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the company’s more than 200 hotels in the U.S. and Canada. A 16-year veteran with Interstate, Knighton previously was executive vice president of operations-full service division, where he had operational responsibility for approximately 70 full-service hotels. Prior to that he was executive vice president of the company’s investment fund/joint venture portfolio.Earlier, he was executive vice president of operations for Interstate’s Crossroads division, which encompassed approximately 110 hotels in the select-service, extended-stay, and mid-market segments. Knighton was named to his current position in June 2006.
Prior to joining Interstate Hotels Corp., a predecessor company, in 1990, Knighton was vice president of operations for Radisson Hotels, supervising 56 hotels. He also has worked for Hyatt Hotels Corporation.
Knighton holds a bachelor’s degree in hotel administration from Cornell University. | 