You Can't Lead With Your Feet On the Desk: Building Relationships, Breaking Down Barriers, and Delivering Profits

Edwin D. "Ed" Fuller (Washington, DC) is president and managing director for Marriott International’s international lodging division.  Under his leadership, the business has grown from 16 properties outside the United States and Canada to nearly 400 hotels in 70 countries with another 175 hotels under construction. 

Mr. Fuller joined Marriott in 1972 as a management trainee and has held numerous positions of increasing marketing, sales and operational responsibility.  Earlier in his career, Mr. Fuller was credited with establishing Marriott International's original international reservations network and for its sales and marketing organization in Europe and the Middle East. He served as a board member and chairman of SNR International, a reservations consortium based in Zurich.