Mark A. Robertson Named Assistant General Counsel for Hilton Hotels Corporation.Business Editors BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 2000 Mark A. Robertson has been promoted to assistant general counsel of Hilton Hotels Corporation Hilton Hotels Corporation (NYSE: HLT) is one of the leading global hospitality companies. As of April 2007 there are 2,645 hotels and 485,000 rooms employing 105,000 people in more than 80 countries. . He reports directly to Thomas E. Gallagher, executive vice president, chief administrative officer A chief administrative officer (CAO) is responsible for administrative management of private, public or governmental corporations. The CAO is one of the highest ranking members of an organization, managing daily operations and usually reporting directly to the chief executive & general counsel for the company. Robertson most recently served as vice president & counsel, a position held since 1999. In his new position as vice president and assistant general counsel, Robertson is responsible for Hilton's legal efforts in regard to e-commerce, multimedia and the internet, information technology and services, and franchising for all of Hilton's brands, including those recently acquired through the purchase of Promus Hotel Corporation Promus Hotel Corporation was a hotel management and franchise company from Memphis, Tennessee. History Promus Hotel Corporation's beginnings are tied to the original Holiday Inn company in Memphis, Tennessee. . Robertson, from Anchorage, Ak. and Spokane, Wash., joined the company in 1995 as counsel of Hilton Hotels Corporation and vice president and counsel of Conrad International Hotels. He was named senior counsel at Hilton in 1998. He came to Hilton from the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles, where he had a general real estate and transactional practice. Prior to his legal career, he was a United States diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service. While with the State Department, he was posted at the U. S. Embassy in Sanaa in the Yemen Arab Republic The Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), (in Arabic: الجمهوريّة العربية اليمنية [al-Jamhūrīyah al-`Arabīyah al-Yamanīyah , the U.S. Consulate General in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the Department of State in Washington, D.C. He also served in temporary duty assignments at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon (following the Embassy bombing) and at the U.S. Consulate General in Naples, Italy. He was awarded the Meritorious Honor Award in 1984 by the State Department for his services in the Middle East. Robertson attended Columbia University in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. where he was a John Jay Scholar John Jay Scholar is the term applied to the undergraduates at Columbia University deemed most outstanding by the admissions committee. The honor is bestowed upon acceptance. External links
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