AUSTIN, TX—This June, Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP) will induct Scot Campbell, CHTP and Michael Schubach, CHAE, CHTP into the HFTP International Hospitality Technology Hall of Fame. Campbell and Schubach were nominated and selected by their peers for being pioneers and visionaries in the hospitality industry.
Campbell is currently the VP of IT connectivity & communications for Caesars Entertainment. He began his career in the radio broadcasting business, which eventually landed him in Las Vegas. Campbell became an IT employee of Mirage Resorts, Inc. and was recruited to be a change agent, working on centralization of the IT function of the resorts—helping to create the first centralized help desk, remote command center and identifying a discipline-based departmental structure that still exists today. Campbell was also responsible for opening MGM’s CityCenter, an $8.5-billion, multibrand resort, in Las Vegas. The in-room automation deployed at CityCenter remains one of the most technologically advanced resorts in the United States, according to the organization. Campbell currently is a director on the HFTP Global Board and is slated to be installed as HFTP’s Global Secretary this fall.
Schubach has established careers in both hospitality accounting and technology. In 1983, while Schubach was with L’Ermitage Hotels of Beverly Hills, he founded the Educational Services Group (ESG). ESG went on to become the exclusive installation team for Computerized Lodging Systems, Inc. (CLS). During a decade with CLS, he supervised more than 2,500 PMS installations worldwide, participating in more than 200 of them personally. Schubach also served for more than a decade as VP of resort technology for ClubCorp, overseeing the IT efforts for five major destination resorts, as well as the technology requirements for the 1999 and 2005 U.S. Open golf championships at Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, NC. In 2008, Schubach joined the Trump Hotel Collection as its chief information officer. Schubach speaks regularly at HFTP events and has been published in every issue of Hospitality Upgrade magazine for the past 15 years. Today, Schubach consults to individual hotels and hotel companies, and continues to write for industry trade publications.
Since 1989, more than 35 individuals have received this award as a reflection of their contributions to the hospitality industry.