Patrick Volz

As Chief Operating Officer, Global Operations, Patrick Volz leads and inspires Aimbridge Hospitality’s corporate teams that support their hotels in the pursuit of operational excellence that drives outsized returns, guest satisfaction, and owner satisfaction, overseeing hotel finance, food and beverage, rooms and engineering and operational excellence/quality assurance teams. He also works alongside their hotel transitions team and the Transitions Center of Excellence (COE). His expertise in this role is an essential part of continuing to refine and innovate Aimbridge’s resources to provide best-in-class management services to their owners and unparalleled experiences to guests. He works alongside their Divisional Presidents, who continue to report to Mark Tamis, President, Global Operations.

Patrick is a strategic industry leader with over 25 years of operational experience, previously as President and Chief Operating Officer of Blackstone Real Estate (BRE) Hotels and Resorts where he led asset management, revenue and eCommerce, capital deployment, and all operations for BRE. His career spans running day-to-day operations and providing operational and financial oversight in roles with major hospitality brands and associations. Before Blackstone, he served as Chief Financial Officer of The Americas at Hilton Worldwide, leading all aspects of the operational finance organization, including performance reporting, operating and capital budgeting, cash flow management, forecasting, and ROI analysis. In this role, he also led key decisions and strategies across Revenue Management & eCommerce, F&B, Rooms, Sales & Marketing, and Ancillary Departments. He spent the first decade of his career at Marriott International, holding roles of increasing responsibility.

Patrick is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, and the University of Texas Naveen Jindal School of Management with a Master of Business Administration in organizational behavior and strategic information systems. He also completed “The CFO: Becoming a Strategic Partner” executive education program at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.