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roger hill on site By Rachel Long Roger That Celebrating two decades of design, Gettys’ chairman and CEO recalls the past and looks to the future On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of design, procurement, and development firm Gettys, we decided to sit down with chairman and CEO Roger G. Hill II, to discuss two decades of innovation and reinvention in our industry. Hill co-founded Gettys with fellow Cornell School of Hotel Administration graduates Andrew Fay, Ariane Steinbeck, and Julius van Heek, choosing Hill’s middle name for their shingle, and bringing a business mindset to hotel design. Headquartered in Chicago, Gettys has recently expanded to offices in Dubai, Hong Kong, Irvine, California, Miami, and New York. After more than 600 projects, Hill talks about innovation, the firm’s first Far East hotel, and that secret sauce. those tenets? RH: I said that we build profit centers, not monuments. The world has changed since then, but the tenets of our ‘great design is good business’ approach remain the same at Gettys. HD: Your background includes a degree in hotel administration. Has this helped you focus on the business of the hotel business, and has it influenced your design work? RH: Yes it has. It’s helped us both focus and see the opportunities, and create a business focused solely on the hospitality business. When we had the vision to come up with the business model 20 years ago, there were developers and brands that understood the value of good design, but not nearly as many as there are today. That’s part of where we saw opportunity; we could combine great design and a great brand. And that’s become table stakes today; 20 years ago that was the minority of thinking. You couple that with the standard then of a developer hiring a procurement firm, project manager, interior designer, program manager, architect of record—we understood that we could accept the responsibility and be accountable for all of it. HD: Gettys has always focused on the future. HD: When you founded Gettys, you said a few notable things about your business approach to hospitality design. Would you mind reciting Why is that in your DNA? From top: The Presidential Suite at the Westin Abu Dhabi; a guestroom at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Macau. RH: I think because our foundation was built on the fact that we are all entrepreneurs. We www.hdmag.com July 2009 87

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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Hospitality Design - July 2009

Hospitality Design - July 2009
Contents
Online Contents
From the Editor
Scene and Be Seen
News
Calendar
Designer Profile
To Market
Trendtracker
On Site
You Oughta Know
The Activist
The Vibe Curator
The Wünderkind
The RocknRolla
The Editor
The Optimist
The Classicist
The Legacy
The Keen Eye
The Icon
The Restaurateurs
The Consultant
The Matchmaker
Back Space
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Hospitality Design - July 2009 - The Activist
Hospitality Design - July 2009 - The Vibe Curator
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Hospitality Design - July 2009 - The Wünderkind
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Hospitality Design - July 2009 - The RocknRolla
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Hospitality Design - July 2009 - The Editor
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Hospitality Design - July 2009 - The Optimist
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Hospitality Design - July 2009 - The Classicist
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Hospitality Design - July 2009 - The Legacy
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Hospitality Design - July 2009 - The Keen Eye
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Hospitality Design - July 2009 - The Icon
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Hospitality Design - July 2009 - The Restaurateurs
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Hospitality Design - July 2009 - The Consultant
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Hospitality Design - July 2009 - The Matchmaker
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