Mark Samuel Hoplamazian (born November 27, 1963) is an Armenian American businessman, who has been the president and CEO of

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Hotels Corporation since December 2006. Through marriage he is a member of the Kohler family.

Early life

Hoplamazian was born on November 27, 1963 in

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to Harry (1924-1977) and Victoria (

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Sarkisian) Hoplamazian (1924-2022). His father was a landscape gardener and owner of ''Mayfield Gardens, Inc.'' in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. He has two brothers and two sisters, and is of Armenian descent. He was educated at the private

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in Newtown Square, and received his BA in economics from

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, and his

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from the

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Career

Between 1985 and 1987, Hoplamazian worked for First Boston Corporation in

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, as a financial analyst. Since 1987, he has been employed in the Pritzker Organization, where he last was executive president, where he worked under Jay Pritzker and primarily managed their family office. In 1988, he was a summer associate at

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. He was a vice president of the Hyatt Global Corporation since 2004, and president since 2006.

Personal life

On September 28, 1991, he married Rachel DeYoung Kohler (b. 1963), daughter of billionaire businessman Herbert Kohler Jr. (1939–2022). They have three children, Mara, Lena and Leo. The family resides in the

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neighborhood in Chicago.

References

External links

Mark Hoplamazian Profile

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Living people Hyatt people Harvard College alumni University of Chicago Booth School of Business alumni Place of birth missing (living people) American chief executives of travel and tourism industry companies American people of Armenian descent 1963 births {{US-CEO-stub