Ken Wilson of CHMWarnick Receives Hospitality Management Distinguished Alumni Award from UNH

• 
  SAVE
• 
  SHARE
• 
  TEXT SIZE
• 
  PRINT
• 
  COMMENT
• 
  PDF

. June 01, 2015

BOSTON, MA. - June 1, 2015. The University of New Hampshire (UNH) Hospitality Management Program (HMGT) awarded CHMWarnick Co-Founder and Partner Ken Wilson its Hospitality Management Distinguished Alumni Award at the annual Hotel Equity Lending and Perspectives (HELP) Conference recently held at the Seaport Boston Hotel. The university recognized Wilson for his contributions to the hospitality industry, including the founding of the largest hotel asset management firm in the nation, his past and current support for the four-year, hospitality management program and his position as one of the four founding members of the HMGT Program's Advisory Board.

"To say this is a tremendous honor that I truly cherish would be an understatement," Wilson said. "The hospitality industry has provided me with a genuinely fulfilling career, and UNH helped me identify my passion and prepared me to be a part of it."

To receive the Distinguished Alumnus award, recipients must have graduated from the university, preferably with a Hospitality Management degree, both of which Wilson accomplished. Further, the recipient must have made demonstrable contributions to the industry during his/her career and be viewed as an "industry leader" by peers. Finally, the person should be noted for supporting the UNH Hospitality Management program over a long period of time, including financial support. Previous honorees include Bob Webster, Class of '80, Jim Nassikas, Class of '52 and Tom Varley, Class of '80.

"Having graduated in 1981, Ken has been making an impact on both the hospitality industry and our university's hospitality management program for decades," said Professor Nelson Barber, the chair of the hospitality management program. "He is the perfect embodiment of the Wildcat spirit—tenacious and powerful, making him the ideal recipient of this award."

Wilson is a co-founder and partner of CHMWarnick, the world's largest hotel asset management company with $8 billion in assets currently under contract. Prior to forming the company in January, he was the CEO of Capital Hotel Management, a company he co-founded in 2000. Under his leadership, CHM's portfolio of asset-managed hotels grew by 300 percent, to an aggregate book value of more than $5.0 billion. His 30 years of hospitality industry experience encompasses all aspects of hotel investment and ownership having directly contributed to the success of more than 350 hotel assets.

The evening was attended by UNH hospitality advisory board members, UNH board of young hospitality professional members, UNH staff members, family, friends, business associates, current hospitality program students and past UNH hospitality program graduates.

About UNH's Hospitality Management Program

UNH's Hospitality Management program is the second-oldest hospitality management program in the United States. The program provides students with the overall breadth and depth of a common core of business courses in accounting, economics, information systems, and management, as well as professional interdisciplinary courses and internship opportunities in hotel management, food service and restaurant management, conventions and event management, and other hospitality management areas. For more information, visit https://paulcollege.unh.edu/academics/undergraduate-programs/bs-hospitality-management.

About the University of New Hampshire

The University of New Hampshire, founded in 1866, is a world-class public research university with the feel of a New England liberal arts college. A land, sea, and space-grant university, UNH is the state's flagship public institution, enrolling 13,000 undergraduate and 2,500 graduate students.

About CHMWarnick

CHMWarnick was founded in 2015 through the merger of two of the industry's leading hotel asset management and business advisory companies, CHM (formerly Capital Hotel Management) and Warnick + Company. With offices nationwide, the company offers a comprehensive suite of hospitality advisory services including asset management, development advisory, repositioning strategies, brand/operator selection, pre-and post-opening consultation, asset acquisition and disposition, operational and financial assessment and capital planning/renovation oversight. The company represents a wide range of ownership entities including private equity investors, public agencies/authorities, pension funds, lending institutions, Fortune 500 companies and sovereign wealth funds. For more information please go to www.CHMWarnick.com.

Media Contact:
Chris Daly
[email protected]
703-435-6293