Leadership Biography:Michael Hoffman

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2006-2007 IAHI Chairman Mike Hoffman began his career in the lodging industry in 1975, when he and his family opened a 202-room Best Western hotel. Soon after the hotel’s opening, Hoffman took the lead as the hotel’s general manager. In 1987, he was responsible for the conversion of the hotel to the Holiday Inn brand. When opportunity presented itself in 1990, the Hoffman family purchased the “Inn at Lake George”. That hotel, built in 1966, has since returned to the Holiday Inn system and is a 2006 Torchbearer award winner for quality and excellence.

Hoffman’s involvement with the IAHI includes serving on the Board since 2001. In other volunteer roles, Hoffman is on the Executive Board of the New York State Hospitality and Tourism Association and is the recipient of their 2005 Most Valuable Volunteer award. Mike also serves on the Board of LaSalle School (a school for underprivileged boys) where he received the Lasallian Benefactor award in 2003. Additionally, he is a member of the Foundation Board of the Teresian House (a senior resident home) and is an appointed member of New York State’s Tourism Advisory Council and the New York State Workforce Investment Board.

Hoffman, a native of Albany, New York, graduated from Clarkson College with a BS degree in Industrial Distribution. He has been married to Susana for 35 years, and has one daughter and two grandchildren.

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