Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> April 27, 1999
DONALD K. BARBIERI is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of
Cavanaughs Hospitality Corporation. Mr. Barbieri joined the Company in
1969, growing the Company from 5 employees to 2,500 and diversifying the
Company's real estate, hospitality and entertainment divisions in five
Northwest states. Mr. Barbieri was educated at the University of
Washington Graduate School of Urban Planning. He received the Building
Owners and Managers Institute Designation of Real Property Administrator
and served as past president of the Spokane Building Owners and Managers
Association. His expertise in the hospitality industry, while
demonstrated by the development and management of the Northwest-based
Cavanaughs hotel chain, is supplemented by past experience as president
of the Spokane Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, as the former co-
chairman of the Washington State Governors Tourism Council and as past
president of the Inland Northwest Tourism Coalition of the states of
Washington, Idaho, Montana and the provinces of British Columbia and
Alberta. Profile
just to set the stage for the readers?
Mr. Barbieri: Cavanaughs Hospitality Corporation went public in the
spring of
