FelCor Lodging Trust Appoints Steven Goldman As CEO

(RTTNews) - FelCor Lodging Trust Inc. (FCH) announced that its Board has named Steven Goldman to be the Company's next Chief Executive Officer, effective March 1, 2017. He will also join FelCor's Board of Directors. Troy A. Pentecost will continue as President and Chief Operating Officer, after serving as Interim Senior Executive Officer since September 2016.

Most recently, Goldman was a Managing Director at Starwood Capital Group, where he served as President of Starwood Capital Group's affiliate SH Group, an innovative hotel brand management company that oversees the development and management of the firm's two luxury and lifestyle hotel and residence brands, 1 Hotels and Baccarat Hotels and Resorts, and prior to that, Chief Executive Officer of Groupe du Louvre, one of Starwood Capital Group's portfolio investment holding companies based in France.