Wyndham Hotels Appoints New CFO
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts has named Amit Sripathi as its new Chief Financial Officer following a comprehensive search. At the same time, David Wilner will take on the role of Chief Development Officer. The company reaffirmed its full-year 2026 outlook alongside the executive leadership changes.
These leadership changes follow Wyndham's successful defense against an $8 billion hostile takeover bid from rival Choice Hotels, which was abandoned in March 2024 after a months-long public battle. Wyndham's board had unanimously rejected the offer, calling it opportunistic and arguing it undervalued the company's growth potential. Incoming CFO Amit Sripathi is an internal promotion, having most recently served as the company's Chief Development Officer. He joined Wyndham in 2021 and previously held roles in capital markets and corporate finance at RLJ Lodging Trust and in the investment banking division at Deutsche Bank. David Wilner, a franchise development veteran with over two decades of experience, will step into Sripathi's former role as Chief Development Officer. He has been with Wyndham since its 2018 acquisition of La Quinta, where he led franchise growth in the U.S. and Latin America. The reaffirmed 2026 outlook projects adjusted EBITDA between $730 million and $745 million and global net room growth of 4.0% to 4.5%. The company also anticipates fee-related and other revenues to be in the range of $1.46 billion to $1.49 billion. For the full year of 2025, Wyndham delivered adjusted EBITDA of $718 million and adjusted diluted earnings per share of $4.58. The company also returned $393 million to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases during that period. Wyndham's development pipeline grew to a record 259,000 rooms by the end of 2025. The company also opened a record 72,000 rooms and awarded an all-time high of 870 new development contracts globally in 2025.
