Debbie Brown

After forty years with Four Seasons Hotels, Debbie has retired to focus on the next phase of her professional career. During her tenured career with Four Seasons, she held both hotel and regional Human Resource positions before assuming her long-standing role as Vice-President Human Resources, Americas. Debbie was responsible for overseeing the Human Resources function for the company’s fifty hotels and resorts in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Latin America and Caribbean, as well as the properties currently under development or in conversion within the Americas. Widely recognized as an employer of choice, Four Seasons has been on FORTUNE magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for the past twenty-one years. “I feel very fortunate that my tenured career with Four Seasons provided me the opportunity to play a central role in the growth and success of the company.” Debbie is a past member of the University of Denver School of Hospitality Executive Advisory Board, the American Hotel and Lodging Association HR Committee, the Cornell Institute for Hospitality Labor & Employment Relations as well as Washington State HR Executive Roundtable. She is currently on the board of The 5th Avenue Theatre as well as adviser to Virginia Mason Hospital on service excellence. Originally from Minnesota, Debbie graduated from the University of Denver and began her hospitality career with Hyatt Hotels. She is based in Seattle, Washington.