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From left to right: Omari Head, executive director, Marriott Sorenson Center for Hospital leadership; Howard University/director, Paramount Lodging Advisors; Andy Ingraham, president/CEO, NABHOOD; Bill Fortier, SVP development, Americas, Hilton Hotels; Neil Freeman, president, Aries Capital; Matthew Wehling, SVP development, U.S. & Canada, Hilton Hotels. (NABHOOD)

Hilton and the National Association of Black Hotel Owners, Operators & Developers (NABHOOD) have created the Bill Fortier Hilton/NABHOOD Hospitality Scholarship during Hilton’s Unlocking Doors: Creating Pathways to Hotel Ownership workshop in McLean, Va, earlier this month. The scholarship honors longtime Hilton Executive Bill Fortier for his two decades of leadership and partnership with NABHOOD in advancing diversity and inclusion in hotel ownership and investment.