Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. announced the appointments of Deanne Brand to senior vice president, strategy & analytics, and treasurer and Padmanabh Yardi to senior vice president, information technology. Brand is responsible for driving the direction-setting corporate strategy, as well as leading the organizational enterprise analytics function. She will serve as a critical advisor on strategic market intelligence analytics and research used to deliver enhanced business outcomes and implement customized asset-level initiatives designed to capture specific business opportunities.

She also will serve as treasurer, and therefore be a key point of contact with external banking and finance parties and will manage and address financial risks to ensure financial flexibility and optimized financial performance. Yardi is responsible for leading all of information technology and digital strategy, as well as leading the development and implementation of strategic and innovative technology solutions that will drive incremental EBITDA. He will also ensure the delivery of IT services, infrastructure, cybersecurity and capabilities across the enterprise and provide primary leadership of driving monetization and innovation across the business as it relates to technology initiatives.

Brand was most recently employed by Park Hotels & Resorts as their senior vice president and treasurer. Previously, she held senior level corporate finance positions at Hilton Worldwide, Inc. Yardi spent more than 21 years with Marriott International, and, most recently, served as global vice president, enterprise application development & operations support at Marriott International.