Marriott International, Inc. (MAR) Presents at 4th Annual Morgan Stanley Travel & Leisure Conference Transcript

Stephen Grambling
Morgan Stanley, Research Division

All right. So kicking right off with a company that needs no real introduction, which is the world’s largest hotel company, Marriott International. But we’re honored to have Jen Mason, newly appointed CFO, to help kick things off. I think this is your first public investor conference.

Jennifer Mason
Executive VP & CFO

It is indeed.

Stephen Grambling
Morgan Stanley, Research Division

So thank you for joining us. So as an intro, let’s just — maybe if you can just talk about your background at the company and how that might inform your perspective as you take on this new seat.

Jennifer Mason
Executive VP & CFO

Great. And so happy to be here with you, Stephen. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Yes. So I have been with Marriott for over 3 decades and worked across many different disciplines and areas within the company.

Prior to the CFO role, I was a Treasurer and Head of Risk Management and before that, a CFO of our U.S. and Canada division, our largest division. But I’ve also had the opportunity to work in our global technology organization and the strategy function as well as sales and marketing. So I certainly bring to the role kind of a breadth and depth of — across the business and certainly well steeped in the culture at Marriott as well.

So given my last role as Treasurer and Risk Management and Head of our Capital Markets Strategy, I’m deeply familiar with our financial approach and discipline to how we think about capital