Robert Chitty

SVP, Capital Investment & Transactions, Americas, INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS GROUP (IHG)

Bob Chitty is Senior Vice President, Corporate Investment & Transactions, for the Americas region of IHG and is responsible for monitoring IHG’s capital investment in hotels, negotiating complex deal transactions, managing relationships with major equity and debt providers and M&A activity.

 

He most recently served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance and Upscale Development and was responsible for implementing IHG’s strategy of expanding rooms’ distribution, primarily of IHG’s upscale brands in North America, through joint ventures, debt financing, management and franchise agreements and other structures designed to minimize capital investment. Prior to that, Mr. Chitty was Vice President, Asset Disposal, for IHG, where he focused on executing IHG’s “asset light” strategy disposing of over $1 billion in hotel investments while maintaining long term management and franchise agreements.  He has also served as Vice President, Tax & Treasury, at IHG.

 

Before joining IHG in 1997, Mr. Chitty held positions at CSX Corporation and Arthur Young & Company. Mr. Chitty received his Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and his Master of Science in Taxation from Pace University and is a Certified Public Accountant