Meet The Team

Gary Hogan
Chief Executive Officer

With 40 years of experience in hotel management and ownership, Gary Hogan leads with integrity and passion. His dedicated leadership style stems from a long family legacy of management and ownership. 

His parents, travel pioneers Ed and Lynn Hogan, founded Pleasant Travel Service, later known as Pleasant Hawaiian Holidays, in 1959. In 1980, Gary began working under them and continues to foster personable partnerships with owners. Gary’s leadership inspires innovation and creative solutions and creates a workplace culture that is fluid and nimble.

Pat Mitchell
President
Pat Mitchell joined the company in 2005, bringing 23 years of hotel and travel industry experience. Throughout the years, Pat held positions as revenue manager, regional manager, and group vice president, honing her expertise in the areas of hotel sales, marketing, and revenue management.

Her hospitality career began in 1982 with a Hilton management training and development program. From there she quickly climbed the ranks, eventually serving as director of sales and marketing and general manager of several hotels. Her previous roles also include vice president of a meeting planning company and director of public relations and communication for a hotel management company. In her current role as president, Pat oversees operations for Hogan Hospitality’s portfolio of hotels, restaurants, and spas. She attended the University of Rome, La Sapienza, and McNeese State University, and is fluent in three languages, including Italian and Spanish.

Geoff Graf
Vice President of Business Development

Hogan Hospitality strengthened its leadership team with the addition of Geoff Graf. A 30-year veteran in hospitality, Geoff is responsible for identifying and building strategic partnerships as the Hogan Hospitality portfolio expands.

His extensive background in property development and asset management, along with his long-standing industry relationships, helps Hogan Hospitality serve an ever-expanding universe of markets on behalf of owners and ownership groups.

Jerry Sager
Vice President of Revenue

Exceeding the financial expectations of hotel owners requires an effective and stand-out revenue management strategy. 

With over 25 years of experience, Jerry is responsible for maximizing revenue at each of Hogan Hospitality's hotels by overseeing pricing, inventory, and yield controls. His ability to develop and execute customized strategies for each market is crucial to the performance of every owner's asset.

Allison Davis-Brown
Vice President Human Resources

Allison Davis-Brown has a wealth of experience in human resources, hotel guest services, and team member training.

Her hospitality career includes 15 years with Westin Hotels & Resorts and Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, San Francisco, where she was the hotel’s manager of the year. In her current role, Allison is responsible for implementing Hogan Hospitality’s hotel operating policies, procedures, and standards, and overseeing legal compliance, insurance, recruiting training, and employment practices.

Imelda Ramirez
Director Of Reservations

With over 30 years of experience in the hospitality industry, Imelda is responsible for managing our call center and customer satisfaction teams. 

She handles the day-to-day operations of the departments to ensure all guest reservation policies, standards, and procedures are met to achieve maximum room revenues.

Yoana Monroy
Director of Business Services

With a background as the manager of her own family’s hotel business, Yoana Monroy joined the team to oversee the technical infrastructure for the Hogan Hospitality portfolio and manage the company’s proprietary online sales, marketing, reporting, and communications tools. She is responsible for the company’s recruitment initiatives and is fluent in Spanish.

Tim Nichols
Regional Manager

Tim Nichols has more than 30 years of experience in the hospitality and gaming industries. His initial assignment was GM of two full-service independent hotels located in Utah. For Hogan Hospitality Group, Tim serves as the Regional Manager overseeing several hotels located in the Western region of the country.

He has held the positions of GM and COO of the AAA Four Diamond Sandia Resort and Casino; V.P Operations for a hospitality management company in California; V.P. Operations of a diverse gaming, entertainment and hospitality company in Colorado; VP of Administration and Human Resources of a Texas-based hospitality management company, GM of the AAA Five Diamond Plaza Athenee in NYC; GM of the AAA Four Diamond Atlanta Hilton Resort and Executive Conference Center; GM of three, AAA Four Diamond, full-service Marriott and Hilton hotels in Texas and California.

Tim specializes in independent, upscale, full-service hotels and resorts. He has designed and implemented hotel database warehouse programs for customer relationship management, revenue management, and marketing analytics. He has opened or fully renovated 12 hotels, 18 restaurants and clubs, three casinos, and three pari-mutuel tracks throughout the United States.

Lance Fisher
Regional Manager

For more than 30 years, Lance Fisher has been dedicated to hospitality, passionate about training and fascinated by the entertainment industry. His first decade was dedicated to building a solid foundation of experience including all food and beverage, rooms and sales positions within Marriott, Westin and Embassy Suites.

His second decade yielded general management and regional management of brands including Extended Stay America, Marriott, and Larkspur Hospitality. Lance held numerous consulting positions in this decade and Adjunct Professor designation at the San Francisco State University Hotel School. And then came the unique opportunity of a lifetime to help lead the Westin brand into the future through the Building World Class Brands, multi-million-dollar initiative where he worked with nearly 30 hotels, helping to transform the brand from the inside out.

Thanks to this experience he met a long-time Westin executive, and they formed a hospitality consulting firm serving hotels and prominent entertainment venues including the San Diego Zoo, Legoland and Warner Brothers Studios. Simultaneously forming a partnership with Avius real-time feedback solutions of the UK, introduced Lance to technology and Software as a Service.

Avius led Lance to work for IBM where he sharpened his technical sales skills and became certified in Digital Sales and Marketing through the Marketing Institute in Ireland. This designation inspired Lance to develop his own digital agency in 2018, LPF Hunters in Long Beach, where he developed a niche offering for Keller Williams real estate agents.

Lance is excited to be back in hospitality in his 4th decade with Hogan Hospitality Group bringing an array of diverse experiences and resources to staff and owners.

John Canchola-Saunders
Area Manager

John Canchola-Saunders brings over 20 years of hotel sales and operational travel industry experience to the team. Starting from the ground up, John’s hospitality career started at a Hilton Hotel as a Houseman/Front Office Supervisor position. Over the years, John held positions of director of sales and marketing at Hampton Inn and Homewood Suites, and at Marriott, Hyatt Place, Hyatt House, and Choice Hotels (Residence Inn by Marriott-Sales Manager, Hyatt Place, and Hyatt House-General Manager). In his current role as Area Manager, John oversees operations for six of our hotels and handles our Arizona region.