David Meyer Named as Certified Hospitality Accountant Executive of the Year

Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP) will honor David Meyer, CHAE as the 2015 Certified Hospitality Accountant Executive (CHAE) of the Year at the 2015 HFTP Annual Convention and Tradeshow.

The CHAE of the Year honors the individual that scored the highest on the CHAE certification exam in a given year and this year HFTP will induct the 32nd honoree.

The Annual Convention and Tradeshow will be held 21-24 October 2015 at the Hyatt Regency in Bellevue, Wash. USA.

Meyer became fascinated with the hospitality business during college when he wrote a paper about hotel management. That experience propelled him to receive a degree in Hotel-Restaurant Management. During college, Meyer began working in hotels as a night auditor where his career in finance was born.

Meyer has worked for Hilton, Omni and Carlson Hotels as a night auditor to assistant controller to centralized accounting. Since 2013, he joined Graves Hospitality as the controller for the Crowne Plaza and DoubleTree hotels in Saint Paul, Minn.

“I am very thankful for this tremendous honor,” said Meyer. “My local HFTP chapter is a great group of people to collaborate, commiserate and celebrate with. Whether a hotel or a golf club, finance or IT, we all face the same challenges and those challenges are easier to face and overcome as a group. HFTP as well as my local chapter have provided so many great learning opportunities.”