Wyndham Hotels & Resorts announced that Amit Sripathi will become its chief financial officer, effective March 3 2026, succeeding interim CFO Kurt Albert who will transition to an advisory role.
Sripathi most recently served as chief development officer for North America and has spent more than a decade at Wyndham, where he helped drive 20 consecutive quarters of organic net‑room growth and the divestiture of owned hotels. Prior to that, he held senior finance positions at RLJ Lodging Trust and Deutsche Bank, giving him deep experience in capital markets and operational leadership within the lodging industry.
The new CFO will report directly to President and CEO Geoff Ballotti and will oversee all financial, accounting and investor‑relations functions. Ballotti said, “Amit's combination of deep finance and capital markets expertise coupled with firsthand operational leadership at Wyndham make him the ideal candidate to lead our finance organization.”
Sripathi added, “Wyndham is a truly unique company with an asset‑light franchise business model that consistently delivers for its owners and shareholders. Our priority is to maintain our rigorous financial discipline and capital allocation strategy to ensure we achieve our long‑term growth objectives and maximize shareholder returns.” Ballotti also noted, “We are confident in his ability to build on our sustained successes and capture opportunities that will drive increased profitability for our franchisees, while returning excess capital to shareholders in a consistent and sustainable manner.”
The appointment comes on the heels of Wyndham’s Q4 2025 earnings, in which the company beat earnings‑per‑share expectations by $0.04 while missing revenue by $4 million and guiding for full‑year 2026 EPS below analyst consensus. The new CFO’s experience in finance and capital markets is seen as a reinforcement of the firm’s disciplined capital allocation and a signal of confidence in sustaining its fee‑based growth strategy and shareholder returns.
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