Ken Barnes

Mr. Barnes is responsible for the company’s entire corporate and hotel’s portfolio IT support including corporate IT infrastructure, new build design and implementation, management of White Lodging network, IT capital planning, managing helpdesk and network administration and planning. He has been directly involved in the information technology opening of over 100 hotels. Mr. Barnes most notably started White Lodging’s IT department with 50 users and a few applications and now supports dozens of applications as well as over 1500 users. Previous positions with White Lodging include Director of Systems, Systems Manager, Internal Audit Manager and other Accounting positions. He received his B.S. in Accounting from Indiana University and currently serves on the Marriott Technology Advisory Committee.

• Shared Services Division Leaders:



• » Carolyn Cochran
• Senior Vice President, Accounting and Information Services
• » Chuck LaMotte
• Vice President, Human Resources
• » Steve Handler
• Vice President, Financial Management
• » Ken Barnes
• Vice President, Information Technology