About the Author

Edwin D. "Ed" Fuller is president and managing director of international lodging for Marriott International Inc. Based at the company's headquarters in Washington, DC, he has been in charge of international lodging since 1990. Under his leadership, the business has grown from 16 properties outside the United States and Canada to 400 hotels in 70 countries with another 175 hotels under construction.

Mr. Fuller joined Marriott in 1972 as a management trainee and has held numerous positions of increasing marketing, sales, and operational responsibility. These include the director of national and international sales and reservations; chief sales and marketing officer for Marriott International, and opening general manager of the Long Island (New York) Marriott and the Boston Marriott Copley Place hotels. In 1985, he was named regional vice president for Marriott's Midwest Region, based in Chicago; four years later, he was appointed regional vice president for the Western/Pacific Region, based in Santa Ana, California. He assumed leadership of Marriott's international lodging operations in 1990 as senior vice president and managing director and was later promoted to executive vice president and managing director. He was promoted to president and managing director, his current position, in 1997. He has been a corporate officer since 1990 and an executive corporate officer since 1997.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Fuller was credited with establishing Marriott International's ...

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