Choice Hotels International has appointed Megan Brumagim to the newly created role of vice president of environmental, social and governance (ESG).
In this new role, Megan Brumagim will lead Choice's sustainability and corporate social responsibility initiatives, championing the pillars of environmental sustainability, human rights, diversity and inclusion, philanthropic and community engagement, and corporate governance. She will also keep developing the company's ESG blueprint to drive alignment among key stakeholders and ensure Choice remains well-positioned to build on its corporate engagement efforts.
Graduated from London Business School with a MBA and Harvard Unuversity with a BA in International Relations, Megan Brumagim started her career at Let’s Go as Editor and then Director of Marketing a Business Development. In 2009 she joined Booz Allen Hamilton as Associate.
During the London Summer Olympincs in 2012 she was a Summer Consultant for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. After that she worked for McKinsey & Company as Associate during a year in the Greater Seattle Area.
Megan Brumigam joined finaly the hospitality sector in 2012, becoming Director of Program Management at Marriott International. Two years later she took the position of Senior Director of Global Brand Management.
Her career among Choice Hotels began in 2015 when she was named Head of Domestic Brand Management for Comfort Inn and Comfort Suites. She was later appointed Head of Signature Brand Portfolio fort Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites and Sleep Inn and also Vice President of Brand Management, Design & Compliance where she oversaw the strategy and performance of Choice's largest brands.
In addition to these roles, she led the pandemic response for Choice's core brands and helped develop the company's Commitment to Clean initiative. Throughout her tenure and prior to her recent appointment, she also assumed a growing role in furthering Choice's sustainability efforts, at both the corporate and hotel levels. Most recently, she led a pilot program to begin tracking property-level energy, water and waste usage.
Choice's commitment to the communities in which our associates and franchisees live and work isn't new – the company was founded upon the mainstay of community service, and this spirit is proudly fostered inside and outside of our doors each day. In the past couple of years alone, we've significantly expanded our sustainability efforts; worked to reduce systematic barriers to hotel ownership; and fueled action against human trafficking, including as an End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking (ECPAT) catalyst partner, but we know our work isn't done. Today, Choice is poised to build on these efforts, which is why we are proud to appoint Megan to the helm of this critical function. Megan is a passionate leader and a longtime champion of the Choice brand and community. This, coupled with her broad industry knowledge, makes her the ideal candidate to take our ESG program to the next level.
Patrick Cimerola, chief human resources officer, Choice Hotels
