Christopher Garland wasselected because the 2025 Hospitality Monetary and Know-how Professionals (HFTP®) Paragon Award recipient for his vital contribution in guiding {industry} professionals in monetary reporting for lodge corporations by means of management roles with the affiliation. Garland is an energetic participant within the World Finance Committee (GFC), the group behind the recently-released twelfth revision of the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Trade. Garland will likely be acknowledged on the upcoming HFTP Annual Conference on October 22 on the Rosen Centre Resort in Orlando, Fla.
“I’m really honored to obtain the Paragon award from HFTP,” stated Garland. “Following within the footsteps of hospitality legends is humbling and I’m grateful for this recognition.”
Garland began his four-decade profession as an evening auditor at a Howard Johnson Motor Resort and subsequently over the course of these years, he specialised within the luxurious lodge area, working in 4 nations on two continents. In 2016 he retired from his position because the SVP of Operations and Finance for 4 Seasons Resort Ltd. He adopted up together with his personal consulting corporations, first was Mission Hospitality Options LLC, working carefully with Auberge Resorts Assortment, and later C. Garland Consulting. He’s an skilled at operations finance with a concentrate on administration and improvement of sources, coverage and process adherence, and compliance of the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Trade (USALI).
All through his profession, Garland frequently volunteered to share his area experience in help of making use of greatest practices inside the broader lodge {industry}. As a member of the AHLA Monetary Administration Committee he participated within the improvement of the eleventh Revised version of the USALI. And now as a member of the GFC, he serves on its Communications subcommittee which oversees the twelfth revised version’s academic and promotional actions. Garland additionally served as chair of the HFTP Hospitality Finance Advisory Council (2015–2020) and as a director on the HFTP World Board (2014–2017). He was additionally treasurer and CFO of 1907 Basis Worldwide, Inc. and 1907 Basis Canada from 2019–2024 and is a former chair of the cupboard for the Centennial Faculty College of Hospitality Influence Marketing campaign.
Established in 1999, the distinguished HFTP Paragon Award acknowledges people every year who’ve made a major and lasting contribution to each HFTP and the hospitality {industry}. Paragon Award nominees could be HFTP members; representatives of industry-related associations, societies or commerce publications; leaders from hospitality companies, academic establishments and different associated disciplines. A panel of {industry} consultants selects the award recipients who’re historically acknowledged at HFTP’s Annual Conference.
Earlier Paragon Award winners embody: Alice Banks, CHAE (1999); Henry “Buddy” Weeks, CHAE (1999); Frank Santos, CHAE, CHA (2000); Katherine Cavanagh, CHAE (2001); Raymond Schmidgall, PH.D., CPA, CHAE (2002); Frank Wolfe, CAE (2002); Len Bartello, CPA, CHAE, CHTP (2003); John J. Cahill, CHA, CHTP (2004); Wendy Zurstadt, CPA, CHAE, CHTP (2005); Richard Braa, CHAE (2006); Robert Patasnick, CPA (2007); George Glazer (2008); Agnes DeFranco, Ed.D., CHAE (2009); Stephen LeBruto, CPA, CHAE, Ed.D. (2009); and Steve Doherty, CHAE, CHTP (2010); Frank Agnello Jr., CMA, CHAE (2011); Howard Area, FBHA, FCA (2012); Joseph McInerney, CHA (2013); Evelyn Adams (2014); Ralph R. Miller, CPA, CA, CBV, CHA, CHAE (2015); Raman (R. P.) Rama B. Com, CHA Emeritus, CHTP, CHAE (2016); Kris S. Shoemaker, CMA, CGFO, CHAE, CHTP, CPFIM (2016); Mary Gerdts (2017); Anna McFarland, CPA, CFE, CHAE, CHTP (2018); Thomas Smith, CHAE (2019); Ian Millar, CHTP (2020); Tanya Venegas, MBA, MHM, CHIA (2021); Sanjay Nadkarni, Ph.D. (2021); Daniel Conti, Jr., CHAE+ (2022); Geneva Rinehart (2023); and Robert Mandelbaum (2024).
The HFTP Annual Conference is October 22–24, 2025 on the Rosen Centre Resort in Orlando, Fla. USA. Register to attend. For extra details about HFTP occasions, contact the HFTP Conferences & Particular Occasions Division at [email protected], +1 (512) 249-5333. For extra data on the Paragon Award, contact the HFTP Communications Division at [email protected] or +1 (512) 249-5333.
About HFTP
Hospitality Monetary and Know-how Professionals (HFTP®), established in 1952, is a hospitality nonprofit affiliation headquartered in Austin, Texas USA with an workplaces within the EU. HFTP is acknowledged as a gaggle supporting the finance and know-how segments of the hospitality {industry} with a world community of members and stakeholders. HFTP presents skilled networks, academic sources, profession improvement packages, analysis, management alternatives and conferences and occasions. HFTP produces worldwide occasions all year long, together with the world’s largest hospitality know-how tradeshow and convention model: HITEC. As well as, it oversees the hospitality-specific Pineapplesearch.com® and the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Trade (USALI), Resort-On-line and Hospitality Improve Journal. For extra details about HFTP, go to www.hftp.org.
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