Starwood Hotels & Resorts

Stephen R. Quazzo
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer

Stephen R. Quazzo, 45, has been the Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Transwestern Investment Company, L.L.C., a real estate principal investment firm, since March 1996. From April 1991 to March 1996, Mr. Quazzo was President of Equity Institutional Investors, Inc., a subsidiary of Equity Group Investments, Inc., a Chicago-based holding company controlled by Samuel Zell. Mr. Quazzo has been a Director of the Company since April 1999 and a Trustee of the Trust since August 1995.