Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson Dies After Cancer Battle

Arne Sorenson, the CEO of Marriott for the past nine years and only the third chief executive in the company's history, died on Monday. He was 62 and had been battling pancreatic cancer for nearly two years. The company announced on February 2 that Sorenson would be reducing his work schedule to receive further treatments. Marriott tapped Stephanie Linnartz, group president, consumer operations, technology and emerging businesses, and Tony Capuano, group president, global development, design and operations services, to fill in for Sorenson. The two will continue in that role until a successor is named within two weeks, the company said. A Video Interview With Arne Sorenson from Skift Global Forum A Winding Road to Hotels Sorenson’s path to the head of the world’s largest hotel company wasn’t a typical one. Born to a family of Lutheran preachers in Tokyo, it was expected he would follow the family footsteps into religion. When the family returned to the U.S., Sorenso