Mark Samuel Hoplamazian[1] (born November 27, 1963) is an Armenian American businessman, who has been the president and CEO of Hyatt Hotels Corporation since December 2006.

[7] He was educated at the private Episcopal Academy[8] in Newtown Square, and received his BA in economics from Harvard College, and his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

[9] Between 1985 and 1987, Hoplamazian worked for First Boston Corporation in New York, as a financial analyst.

[citation needed] On September 28, 1991, he married Rachel DeYoung Kohler (b.

1963), daughter of billionaire businessman Herbert Kohler Jr.