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EXECUTIVE AND DIRECTOR COMPENSATION
I. EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Our executive officers and their positions as of March 9, 2012 are:
Name
(listed alphabetically, after
Chief Executive Officer) Position
Frits van Paasschen ................. Chief Executive Officer and President and a Director
Matthew E. Avril ................... President, Hotel Group
Jeffrey M. Cava .................... Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources
Officer
Philip P. McAveety ................. Executive Vice President and Chief Brand Officer
Vasant M. Prabhu .................. Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer
Kenneth S. Siegel .................. Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and
Secretary
Simon M. Turner ................... President, Global Development
The biography for Mr. van Paasschen, our Chief Executive Officer and President, follows the table listing
our directors under the section entitled Election of Directors beginning on page 8 of this proxy statement.
Biographies for our other executive officers follow:
Matthew E. Avril. Mr. Avril, 51, has been President, Hotel Group since September 2008. From May 2005
until August 2008, he was President and Managing Director of Operations for Starwood Vacation Ownership,
Inc. (“SVO”), a subsidiary of the Company that focuses on the development and operation of vacation ownership
resorts and marketing, selling and financing vacation ownership interests in the resorts; and immediately prior,
from September 2002 to May 2005, served as Senior Vice President for SVO. Mr. Avril was with Vistana, Inc.
(SVO’s predecessor entity) for the ten year period from January 1989 to December 1998, serving as its Executive
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and, prior to that, as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. Prior to
joining Vistana, Mr. Avril, a certified public accountant, spent five years with KPMG Peat Marwick, a public
accounting firm. Mr. Avril is also a member of the board of directors of API Technologies Corp.
Jeffrey M. Cava. Mr. Cava, 60, has been Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer
since May 2008. Mr. Cava served as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for Wendy’s
International, Inc., a restaurant franchising company specializing in quick-service hamburgers, from June 2003 to
May 2008. Prior to joining Wendy’s, Mr. Cava was Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for Nike,
Inc., a designer, developer and marketer of footwear, apparel and accessory products; Vice President Human
Resources for The Walt Disney Company, Consumer Products Group, a business segment of The Walt Disney
Company that extends the Disney brand to a range of merchandise; and Vice President of Global Staffing,
Training and Development for ITT Sheraton Corporation, a hotel company. Mr. Cava is also a member of the
board of directors and chairs the compensation committee of The Society for Human Resources Management, a
non-profit global human resources professional organization.
Philip P. McAveety. Mr. McAveety, 45, has been Executive Vice President and Chief Brand Officer since
April 2008. Prior to joining the company, Mr. McAveety was Global Brand Director of Camper, SL, a fashion
footwear company, from January 2007 until March 2008. From July 1997 until December 2006, he served as
Vice President, Brand Marketing, Europe, Middle East and Africa at Nike, Inc., a designer, developer and
marketer of footwear, apparel and accessory products.
Vasant M. Prabhu. Mr. Prabhu, 52, has been Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer since February
2010. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since January 2004. Prior to
joining the Company, Mr. Prabhu served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Safeway
Inc., a North American food and drug retailer specializing in grocery and general merchandise, from September
2000 through December 2003. Mr. Prabhu was previously the President of the Information and Media Group at
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