Choice Hotels Promotes Two Execs

Silver Spring, MD— Choice Hotels International has promoted Patrick Cimerola and Pat Murphy to vice president, human resources, and vice president, organizational development, diversity, and learning, respectively. Cimerola and Murphy report directly to Tom Mirgon, senior vice president of administration. Cimerola, formerly Choice Hotels director of human resources, rejoined Choice in January 2002 where he has played a role in upgrading the array of services offered by Choice Hotels human resources department. Prior to joining Choice, he served as vice president of human resources for Capella Senior Living, division director of human resources for HCR Manor Care and regional human resources manager for Manor Care (formerly the parent company of Choice Hotels). Murphy on the other hand, joined Choice in December 1998 with more than 10 years of education and training experience. She established and opened the Choice Learning Center, guided the development of the Total Lodging By Choice course offered to new franchisees coming into the Choice Hotels system, and instituted Choice Hotels’ signature management training class, Tools For Successful Management. She also serves as director of the Choice Hotels Foundation and plays a leadership role in guiding the organization’s overall diversity efforts. Choice Hotels International is a lodging franchiser, marketing more than 5,000 hotels open or under development in 46 countries under the Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality, Clarion, Sleep Inn, MainStay Suites, Econo Lodge, and Rodeway Inn brand names.