About
Advisory Board Members
Edwin D. Fuller
Chair, School of Hospitality Administration Advisory Board
President and Managing Director
Marriott Lodging - International
Edwin D. “Ed” Fuller is president and managing director of international lodging for Marriott International, Inc. Based at the company’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., he has operating responsibility for managed and franchised hotels spanning seven lodging brands and brand extensions outside the continental United States and Canada, including Hawaii and 68 countries in Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East and encompasses more than 350 hotels with almost $7 billion in annual gross sales.
Mr. Fuller joined Marriott in 1972 as a management trainee and has held numerous positions of increasing marketing, sales and operational responsibility. These include director of national and international sales and reservations; chief sales and marketing officer for Marriott International and opening general manager of the Long Island (NY) Marriott and the Boston Marriott Copley Place hotels. In 1985, he was named regional vice president for Marriott’s Midwest Region, based in Chicago; four years later, he was appointed regional vice president for the Western/Pacific Region, based in Santa Ana, CA. He assumed leadership of Marriott’s international lodging operations in 1991 as senior vice president and managing director and later was promoted to executive vice president and managing director. He was promoted to president and managing director, his current position, in 1997. He has been an executive corporate officer since 1997 and chairs the international development committee.
Under his leadership, Marriott International’s presence outside the continental U.S. and Canada has grown from 16 properties in 1991. Another 130 hotels are scheduled to join the company’s international portfolio outside the U.S. and Canada over the next 36 months.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Fuller was credited with establishing Marriott International’s original international reservations network and for its sales and marketing organization in Europe and the Middle East. He served as a board member and chairman of SNR International, a reservations consortium based in Zurich.
Mr. Fuller attended Wake Forest University and is a 1968 graduate of Boston University. He is a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Business advanced management program. He served in the U.S. Army as a captain in Germany and Vietnam and was awarded the Bronze Star and the Army Commendation Medal.
An active alumnus of Boston University, Mr. Fuller is a former president of its Alumni Association and a former trustee of the University. He currently serves on the advisory boards of its hotel and business schools where he is Chairman of the Hospitality Board. He also serves on the University’s International Advisory Board. In 1998, he received the Alumni Award, the University’s highest recognition. He recently was appointed to the Board of Overseers of Boston University. He also serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board for the University of California Irvine, Mirage School of Business. He is a Trustee of the International Business Leaders Forum; chairs the Governing Council of the International Tourism Partnership; and currently serves on the Safe Kids Worldwide Board and the Pacific Area Travel Association Foundation Board, as well as the Editorial Advisory Boards of TravelAge West and GlobalHotelNetwork.com. He is a past member of the Corporate Advisory Board of Safe Kids Worldwide and a former Director of the United Way International Board. In 2008, he received the China Hotel Investment Summit 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Board member: Hugh Andrews