Best Western Hotels & Resorts

Jim Cosgrove has been elected chairman of the board of directors for 2018. He is a second-generation Best Western-branded hotel owner and has served in several leadership roles throughout his time with the company. He was elected to the board in 2011 to represent the interests of the network’s hotel owners in twenty states and provinces in the eastern United States and Canada, from Newfoundland south to Virginia. In addition to serving as a board director, Cosgrove served as board vice-chairman in 2017 and secretary-treasurer in 2016. Cosgrove was also a brand governor for eleven years, chair of Best Western’s New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania marketing co-op, and sat on the board of the brand’s global marketing group. His property the Best Western Plus Revere Inn & Suites has won 29 brand awards, including eleven director awards, four chairman awards, and Best Western’s most prestigious award to date, the M.K. Guertin award, named after the founder of the brand.