Wyndham Hotels & Resorts has appointed Chief Development Officer Amit Sripathi as chief financial officer, effective immediately.
Sripathi swaps C-suite roles after former CFO Michele Allen departed Wyndham in November, when Treasurer Kurt Albert was named interim chief financial officer.
Wyndham selected Sripathi following a comprehensive search process, the company detailed in a Tuesday release. Sripathi joined Wyndham in 2021 and has served in a variety of leadership roles at the company, most recently as CDO. During his tenure, Wyndham achieved 20 consecutive quarters of organic net room growth, per the company.
Sripathi brings finance experience across the lodging industry to the role, previously working at Deutsche Bank as well as RLJ Lodging Trust, where he was responsible for the capital markets and corporate finance divisions, according to Wyndham.
“Amit’s combination of deep finance and capital markets expertise coupled with firsthand operational leadership at Wyndham make him the ideal candidate to lead our finance organization,” Wyndham CEO Geoff Ballotti said in a statement.
Wyndham has also appointed David Wilner to take over as chief development officer for North America. Wilner most recently served as senior vice president of franchise development at the company, per his LinkedIn. He held the same title at La Quinta before Wyndham acquired the brand in 2018.
“From leading development at La Quinta prior to Wyndham’s acquisition of the brand to driving growth across our new construction prototype brands including La Quinta, WaterWalk, Hawthorn Suites, ECHO Suites and Microtel, David has tremendous expertise translating owners’ needs into strategic growth,” Ballotti said. “Owners and team members view him as a sincere and trusted partner who is most focused on our owner’s success, while helping our teams accelerate domestic net room growth across all of Wyndham’s brands.”
In conjunction with the appointments, Wyndham reaffirmed the full-year 2026 outlook it provided during fourth-quarter earnings last month. The company expects global RevPAR will be in the range of down 1.5% to up 0.5%, and anticipates room growth between 4% and 4.5%, per the earnings report.
Earlier this year, Sripathi told Hotel Dive that the extended stay category will be a focus area for Wyndham in 2026.
