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NEW YORK • NOVEMBER 6th, 2026

Sheila Johnson

Sheila Johnson

Salamander Hotels & Resorts is ranked as one the largest minority-owned and woman-owned companies in the Washington, DC area, thanks to CEO and founder Sheila Johnson. Since opening the Salamander Resort & Spa in Middleburg, Virginia, the former Black...
Barbara Parker + Miriam Torres

Barbara Parker + Miriam Torres

Barbara Parker and Miriam Torres may have launched their global design and interior architecture firm Parker-Torres Design in 2004, but the two first collaborated in 1997 on the design of the Bentley in London. The pair have drawn upon their mutual strengths ever...
Lyndon Neri + Rossana Hu

Lyndon Neri + Rossana Hu

Since founding the Shanghai-based interdisciplinary architectural design practice Neri&Hu in 2004, partners Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu have imparted their core vision—responding to a global worldview through overlapping design disciplines for a new paradigm in...
Larry Traxler

Larry Traxler

Larry Traxler is celebrating his 11th year as Global Head of Design at Hilton—overseeing architecture, design, construction, and renovation for all 18 of Hilton’s luxury, lifestyle, full, and focused-service hotel brands. In addition, he also leads the design efforts...
Brad Wilson

Brad Wilson

Brad Wilson grew up working for his mother in events and catering, and later opened a family-owned group of artisanal American bakeries. A graduate of Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration, Wilson’s first jobs with major hospitality brands like...
Jennifer Johanson

Jennifer Johanson

With a degree from University of Texas School of Architecture, Jennifer Johanson joined the late Eric Engstrom in 1987 and helped to establish EDG Design as an innovator in the field of restaurant design. As managing partner, Jennifer led the firm’s evolution from a...