Choice Hotels Appoints Pat Pacious as New CEO Beginning in 2018
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The signs of this succession were right there all along.
Choice Hotels president and COO Patrick Pacious will succeed Stephen Joyce as CEO of Choice Hotels on January 1, 2018.
The Choice Hotels board of directors appointed Pacious for the role as part of "a thoughtful, deliberate, long-term succession planning process," the company said in a press statement.
Pacious' appointment doesn't seem to portend any future major changes in strategy for the Rockville, Maryland-based company, whose brands include Comfort Inn, Cambria Hotels, and Econo Lodge.
Joyce will continue in his role as CEO until the end of 2017, after which he will become vice chairman of the board. He joined Choice Hotels as CEO in 2008, after serving as executive vice pres
