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Willis steps down as chief investment officer at Chatham

The company’s president and its COO will take over his duties

Ed Brock
By Ed BrockMar 18, 2020
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Ed Brock is an award-winning journalist who has worked for various U.S. newspapers and magazines, including with American City & County magazine, a national publication based in Atlanta focused on city and county government issues. He is currently senior editor at Asian Hospitality magazine, the top U.S. publication for Asian American hoteliers. Originally from Mobile, Alabama, Ed began his career in journalism in the early 1990s as a reporter for a chain of weekly newspapers in Baldwin County, Alabama. After a stint teaching English in Japan, Ed returned to the U.S. and moved to the Atlanta area where he returned to journalism, coming to work at Asian Hospitality in 2016.

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Peter Willis has stepped down as chief investment officer for Chatham Lodging Trust, a REIT. Jeffrey Fisher, Chatham’s president and CEO, and Dennis Craven, the company’s chief operating officer, will assume Willis’ duties.

Willis was one of the first executives Fisher hired at Chatham, Fisher said in a statement.

“Over those ten years, working together, we have assembled a premier portfolio of forty high-quality hotels in great locations around the country,” Fisher said. “We would like to thank Peter for his meaningful contributions and wish him nothing but the best.”

Chatham owns 134 hotels with 18,442 rooms and suites in 15 states and the District of Columbia. In December 2018 it purchased the Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Dallas from Peachstate Hospitality.

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