CTO Daniel Blanchard On Overseeing Tech Strategy For Several Hotel Chains
InformationWeek, Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
The IHG Hotels & Resorts' CTO has driven IT strategy for leading organizations in transportation and hospitality, from Boeing and Delta Airlines to Marriott International.
Daniel Blanchard says he was a 'typical tech geek' at the beginning of his career at Boeing, where he was manager of systems administration. There he worked on programs for the Army, Navy, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
These days he's chief technology officer at IHG Hotels & Resorts, where he leads the vision and strategy for areas of the product and technology business in an organization with more than 6,600 hotels globally. They include InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, and Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants. As CTO, he ensures that technology runs well with service-level agreements and tracking other metrics. Prior to IHG, he spent more than 25 years in IT business management, strategy, transformation, architecture governance, and program management.