Mike Schugt

A hospitality industry leader for more than three decades, Mike Schugt is the President of Teneo Hospitality Group. Teneo Hospitality Group provides group meetings and marketing services to more than 400 independent and iconic branded lifestyle and luxury hotels around the world. In 2010, before joining Teneo, Mr. Schugt launched Leading North: a full-service sales, marketing, revenue management, and digital marketing firm aimed at creating greater value for hotels by improving their financial results. As the former Vice President of Sales & Marketing with Hilton Worldwide, where he served for over 10 years, he had direct oversight of the Hilton Owned and Managed hotel sales operations for the hotels in the Southeast US, Latin America, and Caribbean. He was instrumental in the integration of the Promus acquisition merger in 1999, the Hilton International merger in 2005, and again the LXR luxury brand merger following the Blackstone purchase of Hilton Hotels. As a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, Mr. Schugt is a recipient of the 2023 Penn State Hotel & Restaurant Society - Alumni Industry Achievement Award. He is fluent in Spanish and German.