Bill Marriott attended St Albans School in Washington, DC Bill Marriott is an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.
21 Facts About Bill Marriott
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When he was 14, Marriott worked for his dad stapling invoices.
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In 1954, Bill Marriott earned a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from the University of Utah, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.
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When Marriott was 22 years old, in 1954, Dwight D Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie Eisenhower, were dinner guests of his father.
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Bill Marriott was impressed by Eisenhower's style of inclusive decision making and carried this style later in his career.
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In June 1955, Bill Marriott was married at the Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City.
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Bill Marriott pushed his father, who was wary of taking on debt after experiencing the Great Depression, to expand from the restaurant business into the hotel business.
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Bill Marriott was elected executive vice president and member of the board of directors in January 1964, president of the company in November 1964, chief executive officer in 1972, and chairman of the board in 1985.
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Bill Marriott introduced the practice of revenue management to the hotel industry.
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Effective March 31,2012, Bill Marriott assumed the role of executive chairman of the company and relinquished the role of chief executive officer to Arne Sorenson.
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In 2001, Bill Marriott was recognized as The Industry Leader of The Year by Broad College of Business, Michigan State University.
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On May 4,2006, Bill Marriott received an honorary doctorate of humanities from Weber State University and delivered the commencement speech.
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On June 2,2009, Bill Marriott received the Icon of the Industry award from Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.
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In 2010, Bill Marriott received the Foreign Language Advocacy Award from the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in recognition of programs that provided language instruction to both non-English speaking and English speaking employees.
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In 2018, Bill Marriott received the Distinguished Service Award by the National Maritime Historical Society.
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Bill Marriott has been married to Donna Garff for over 60 years and they have four children, all of whom work for Bill Marriott International, fifteen grandchildren, and twenty great-grandchildren.
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In 2018, Bill's son John Marriott III sued both him and his uncle, Richard Marriott, for allegedly cutting John out of the family fortune, in part for divorcing his wife without approval of his father.
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Bill Marriott is an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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In 1997, Bill Marriott was called by the church to be an Area Authority Seventy and member of the Fifth Quorum of the Seventy.
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Bill Marriott is actively involved in various boards and councils including, the US Travel and Tourism Promotional Advisory Board, the executive committee of the World Travel and Tourism Council, the National Business Council, the board of trustees of the National Urban League, a director of the National Geographic Society, and a director of the Naval Academy Endowment Trust.
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Bill Marriott serves as chairman of the President's Export Council, a group that advises the president on matters relating to export trade, and serves as chairman of the Leadership Council of the Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries.