Afrigather Shatterproof, a nationwide nonprofit group and a pacesetter in enhancing the way in which the healthcare system addresses and treats substance use problems, is proud to announce its 2025 Shatterproof Hospitality Heroes honoree, Amanda Hite. Hite is the president of STR, a CoStar Group firm, and is being acknowledged for her braveness and dedication towards elevating consciousness of substance use problems and ending habit stigma. She shall be honored through the eighth annual Hospitality Heroes Reception, which shall be held through the Americas Lodging Funding Summit (ALIS) on January 29, 2025. The occasion may even increase important funds to help Shatterproof and its efforts to rework how habit is handled in America.
Hite has expressed deep delight within the hospitality trade’s efforts to help these affected by habit and has emphasised the important position of organizations like Shatterproof in offering important assets to save lots of lives. Her management and advocacy are impactful in dismantling the limitations that forestall individuals from looking for the assistance and help they want.
Moreover, Hite has actively participated in Shatterproof initiatives, together with the Shatterproof Problem Rappel, the place she courageously rappelled down a constructing to lift consciousness and funds for habit prevention, remedy, and restoration. Her involvement is a testomony to her devotion to the trigger and her steady help towards the Shatterproof mission.
Her group, STR, is the worldwide chief in hospitality knowledge benchmarking, analytics, and market insights. At STR, Hite supervises all operational and enterprise affairs tailor-made to the worldwide hospitality trade and is pivotal in driving the group’s mission ahead and broadening its international footprint. Her intensive trade involvement consists of serving on quite a few boards and councils, such because the American Lodge and Lodging Affiliation, the US Journey Affiliation, the Govt Council of Ladies in Lodging, and the Ahead Sumner Financial Partnership. She additionally contributes her experience to the Journey and Tourism Advisory Council for the Federal Reserve Financial institution of Atlanta and the Trade Advisory Board for the resort and restaurant administration program at Auburn College.
Previous to her position at STR, Hite served because the director of analysis for the Nashville Space Chamber of Commerce, the place she centered on financial development and improvement throughout the native enterprise neighborhood and broader regional financial system.
Hite holds a Bachelor of Science diploma in Enterprise Administration from Birmingham-Southern Faculty. As well as, she is the recipient of ‘30 Influential Ladies in Hospitality’ and ‘40 Beneath 40 Rising Leaders’.
The Hospitality Heroes Reception was created by Gary Mendell, a former hotelier who served because the co-founder and chairman of HEI Lodges & Resorts, and who’s now the Shatterproof CEO.
Mendell based Shatterproof ten years in the past after shedding his son to the stigma of habit. His objective was to make sure that different households don’t must expertise the identical ache and heartbreak he went by. Since its inception, the Hospitality Heroes Reception has raised greater than $5 million to assist the Shatterproof mission and gathered greater than 100 resort firms and 500 staff.
Amanda Hite is a real testomony of the Hospitality Heroes award because of her private dedication to coach the general public to cut back the stigma of habit and be certain that individuals who use substances or have substance use problems have a path to restoration. We stay up for working together with her and STR to lift consciousness and convey change to remedy outcomes and analysis. Research have proven the hospitality trade is impacted by substance use problems at two instances the speed of different industries,” stated Amanda Hite, president of STR. “My objective is to make sure that we create a nationwide help system to make sure that individuals residing with substance use problems have entry to remedy and assets and may be handled with none disgrace or judgement. Gary Mendell, founder and CEO of Shatterproof
The 2025 Shatterproof Hospitality Heroes Committee consists of
Mike Barnello, Badlands Lodge Capital; James Burba, Burba Lodge Community; Paul Whetsell, CapStar Lodge Firm; Ted Darnall, Clark Hanrattie, Anthony Rutledge, and Greg Mendell, HEI Lodges & Resorts; Chris Nassetta, Hilton Lodges and Resorts; Dan Lesser, LW Hospitality Advisors; Invoice Reynolds, Marcus Lodges; Joel Eisemann, Noble Funding Group; Mark Woodworth, RM Woodworth Hospitality Advisors; Robert Alter, Seaview Traders; Stacy Silver, Silver Hospitality Group; Gary Mendell, Shatterproof; Thomas Corcoran, TCOR Lodge Companions; Patrick Campbell, Tim Hodes and Merrick Kleeman, Wheelock Road Capital; and Geoff Ballotti, Wyndham Lodges and Resorts.
The 2024 Hospitality Heroes reception will happen on January 29, 2025, from 6:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. on the J.W. Marriott at LA Stay in Los Angeles. Tickets and sponsorships shall be out there at www.shatterproof.org in September.
About Shatterproof
Shatterproof is a nationwide nonprofit group devoted to reversing the course of the habit disaster in America. Shatterproof is concentrated on guaranteeing remedy in America relies upon confirmed analysis and ending the stigma of habit. The group advocates for adjustments to federal and state coverage, payer reform, remedy high quality evaluation, and gives public schooling by household and office packages.
About Gary Mendell
Gary Mendell is the founder and CEO of Shatterproof. He based Shatterproof to spare others the tragedy his household suffered with the lack of his son Brian to habit in 2011. He’s a frequent speaker on how our society can finish the stigma unjustly related to habit, has been honored quite a few instances for his management associated to reversing opioid epidemic, testified in entrance of the President’s Fee on Combating Drug Dependancy and the Opioid Disaster and is a frequent commentator within the media. Mr. Mendell additionally serves on the Govt Advisory Board of the College of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Well being Economics (LDI). He’s an skilled businessman and CEO who based HEI Lodges & Resorts and is the previous president of Starwood Lodging Belief.
