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NEW YORK • NOVEMBER 7th, 2025

Susan Nagle

Susan Nagle

Susan B. Nagle received her BFA from NYSID in 1997. She is a partner in the architecture and design firm of Bentel & Bentel. She and her partners at Bentel & Bentel were inducted into the Hospitality Design Platinum Circle in 2007.

Leonard Parker

Leonard Parker worked for the Maxwell Company for 11 years furnishing hotels throughout the US and Caribbean. In 1969, he founded the Leonard Parker Company and created the agent only system of purchasing used today by nearly every purchasing company in the U.S. In...
Andi Pepper

Andi Pepper

Andi Pepper received her bachelor’s of fine arts in sculpture and painting from Moore College of the Arts in Philadelphia, and a master’s degree in interior design from Drexel University. Pepper designed the Claridge Hotel while also contributing to...

John Portman

John Calvin Portman Jr. is known for popularizing hotels and office buildings with multi-storied interior atria. Portman had a large impact on the cityscape of his hometown of Atlanta, with the Peachtree Center complex, which includes Portman-designed Hyatt, Westin,...

Walter Rutes

Rutes is Chairman of 9 Tek Ltd. Development Consultants and was vice president and director of architecture of such hotel companies as InterContinental Hotels Group, Sheraton, Ramada, and Holiday Corporation.