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STARWOOD HOTELS & RESORTS WORLDWIDE, INC.-2013Proxy Statement 15
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
at www.hotethics.com. It is important that you identify yourself
as a stockholder or an interested party in the correspondence.
Ifthe correspondence contains complaints about our Company’s
accounting, internal or auditing matters, the Corporate Secretary
will advise a member of the Audit Committee. If the correspondence
concerns other matters or is directed to the non-employee directors,
the Corporate Secretary will forward the correspondence to
the director to whom it is addressed or otherwise as would be
appropriate under the circumstances, attempt to handle the inquiry
directly (for example where it is a request for information or a
stock-related matter), or not forward the communication altogether
if it is primarily commercial in nature or relates to an improper or
irrelevant topic. At each regularly scheduled Board meeting, the
Corporate Secretary or his designee will present a summary of all
such communications received since the last meeting that were
not forwarded and shall make those communications available
to the directors upon request. This policy is also posted on the
Company’s website at www.starwoodhotels.com/corporate/about/
investor/governance.html.
Posted Documents
You may obtain a free copy electronically of any of the aforementioned posted documents on Starwood’s investor relations website
free of charge at www.starwoodhotels.com/corporate/about/investor/index.html.
Choosing to access the documents online will save us the cost of printing and mailing the documents to you and will also help preserve
environmental resources. While we encourage stakeholders to download documents electronically, if hard copies are required, you may
send a request to the Investor Relations Department of the Company by writing a letter to Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide,
Inc., Attn: Investor Relations, One StarPoint, Stamford, Connecticut 06902.
Please note that the information on the Company’s website is not incorporated by reference in this proxy statement.
ELECTION OF DIRECTORS
Under the Company’s Charter, each of the Company’s directors is elected to serve until the next annual meeting of stockholders and
until his or her successor is duly elected and qualifi ed. Set forth below is information as of April3, 2013 regarding the nominees of the
Board of Directors for election as a director, which has been confi rmed by each of them for inclusion in this proxy statement. Each
nominee has agreed to serve on the Board of Directors if elected. If a nominee becomes unavailable for election, proxy holders and
stockholders may vote for another nominee proposed by the Board of Directors or, as an alternative, the Board of Directors may reduce
the number of directors to be elected at the meeting.
The director nominees, if elected, will serve until the 2014 Annual Meeting and until their successor is duly elected and qualifi ed.
Frits van Paasschen
Age: 52
Director since: 2007
Mr. van Paasschen has been Chief Executive
Officer and President of the Company since
September2007. From March2005 until
September2007, he served as President and Chief Executive
Offi cer of Molson Coors Brewing Company’s largest division,
Coors Brewing Company, a brewing company, prior to its merger
with Miller Brewing Company and the formation of MillerCoors
LLC. Prior to joining Coors, from April2004 until March2005,
Mr.van Paasschen worked independently through FPaasschen
Consulting, a consulting company, and Mercator Investments, a
private equity fi rm, evaluating, proposing, and negotiating private
equity transactions. Prior thereto, Mr.van Paasschen spent seven
years at Nike, Inc., a designer, developer and marketer of footwear,
apparel and accessory products, most recently as Corporate Vice
President/General Manager, Europe, Middle East and Africa from
2000 to 2004. From 1995 to 1997, Mr.van Paasschen served
as Vice President, Finance and Planning at Disney Consumer
Products, a business segment of The Walt Disney Company that
extends the Disney brand to a range of merchandise, and earlier
in his career was a management consultant for eight years at the
global management consulting fi rm of McKinsey& Company and
the Boston Consulting Group.
As the Company’s Chief Executive Offi cer and President for the
past fi ve years, Mr. van Paasschen has valuable insight into, and a
unique understanding of, the Company’s operations, management
and culture and provides an essential link between management
and the Board on management’s business perspectives. His
specifi c experience with the Company, combined with his extensive
managerial experience and knowledge of the hotel and leisure
industry generally, make him essential to developing the strategic
plan for the Company.