UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The 2024 Penn State Resort & Restaurant Society (PSHRS) Trade Awards and Reception shall be held on Tuesday, April 2 on the Penn State College of Hospitality Administration on the College Park campus.
The occasion, a practice of the PSHRS and College of Hospitality Administration since 1960, will honor Jim Risoleo, president and CEO of Host Inns & Resorts, Inc., with the Hospitality Govt of the Yr Award and Ted Balestreri, chairman and CEO of Cannery Row Firm and Sardine Manufacturing facility Restaurant, with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Risoleo is president and CEO of Host Inns & Resorts, Inc., the world’s largest lodging actual property funding belief. Host Inns & Resorts, Inc. is an S&P 500 firm and one of many largest homeowners of luxurious and upper-upscale resorts, partnering with premium manufacturers and main administration firms to handle its portfolio of resorts.
Balestreri is chairman and CEO of Cannery Row Firm and Sardine Manufacturing facility Restaurant, for which he shaped a partnership in 1968. He additionally based Pacific Hospitality, which was included from 1983-2007, and held the franchise rights for Wendy’s Worldwide, protecting a tri-county space in northern California.
The PSHRS Trade Awards and Reception is the marquee fundraising occasion of scholarships for college kids learning hospitality administration at Penn State and programming help for the College of Hospitality Administration by its devoted alumni society.
The next company sponsors and people are gratefully acknowledged. Sponsors of the gala as of March 15:
Previous Foremost Sponsor:
Host Inns & Resorts
Nittany Lion:
Velma & Ted Balestreri, Cannery Row Firm, The Sardine Manufacturing facility, Inns of Monterey, Casa Munras Backyard Resort & Spa
DirecTV
HEI Inns & Resorts
Hilton Inns & Resorts
Marriott Worldwide
PepsiCo
PJT Companions
Blue:
KSL Capital Companions
Noble Funding Group
Pebble Seaside Firm
Rockbridge Capital
Sightline Hospitality
Wells Fargo
White:
Akerman LLP
Aon Hewitt
BNY Mellon
Reserving.com
Chef Bert Cutino
Davidson Hospitality Group
Eastdil Secured
Ecolab
Goldman Sachs
Hodges Ward Elliott
Hyatt Inns
IFMA
JLL Inns & Hospitality Group
MCR Inns
Steve Metzger & Nancy Albertini
Morgan Stanley
Nestle
PENN Leisure
Sage Hospitality Group
SH Inns & Resorts
SMBC Group
Thayer Ventures
Willis Towers Watson
Patrons:
American Categorical
American Resort & Lodging Affiliation
Areas USA / Wealthy Schneider
Financial institution of America
Budge & Co.
Crédit Agricole
Curacity
Stephen Dart and Jane Dart Tucker
Patrick and Barbara Deming
Gordon and Rhonda Eubanks
Hawkins Method Capital
IFBTA/Rob Grimes
IHG Inns & Resorts
Ron and Lynn Johnson
Invoice & Kim Kohl/Greenwood Hospitality Group
KPMG Worldwide
John Metz
Nationwide Restaurant Affiliation
Leon & Sylvia Panetta
Park Inns & Resorts
Pennsylvania Restaurant & Lodging Affiliation
Shari Reams-Henofer
Wealthy’s Merchandise Company
Shaner Resort Group
Truist Monetary
Regynald Washington
Yum! Manufacturers
In regards to the Penn State Resort & Restaurant Society:
The Penn State Resort & Restaurant Society (PSHRS) was based to strengthen all hospitality professions and improve the fame of the Hospitality Administration (HM) program. PSHRS is an Affiliate Program Group of the Penn State Alumni Affiliation and the Faculty of Well being and Human Growth Alumni Society. PSHRS supplies a method for attaining nearer fellowship amongst alumni, school and college students. PSHRS serves those that are at the moment attending Penn State in HM or who’re graduates of this system, in addition to those that work inside the HM industries and have attended Penn State or are associates of this system.
In regards to the College of Hospitality Administration:
The College of Hospitality Administration is house to the third-oldest hospitality administration program in the US. Since its starting in 1937, this system has grown to now be acknowledged as some of the revered and distinguished hospitality administration applications within the nation. By combining a broad instructional basis with particular programs designed to construct robust management, enterprise, and communications abilities, and by requiring undergraduate college students to build up skilled, real-world expertise to graduate, college students achieve the theoretical, managerial, quantitative, organizational, and technical abilities they should develop into the subsequent technology of leaders within the hospitality business. The scholars’ relationships with school members and alumni serve to bolster this studying expertise. Likewise, the famend doctoral diploma program within the faculty has been confirming doctorates since 1971 and locations school and researchers in prestigious establishments world wide. New to the college’s portfolio in Fall 2023 is an progressive and centered Grasp of Skilled Research diploma in Hospitality Administration program.
For sponsorship alternatives, please contact Ben Jellison, director of business and alumni relations, at [email protected] or 814-865-6728.
About Penn State College of Hospitality Administration
Established in 1937 Penn State’s College of Hospitality Administration is without doubt one of the nation’s oldest and most revered. Its top-ranked undergraduate and doctoral applications put together world leaders with a rigorous, various curriculum centered, since its inception, on engaged scholarship, that includes partnerships with Penn State’s Hospitality Companies, Housing and Meals Companies, and prime world hospitality manufacturers. It is also house to the oldest Penn State alumni program group, The Penn State Resort and Restaurant Society.
Ben Jellison
Director of Trade and Alumni Relations
814-865-6728
Penn State College of Hospitality Administration
