What We Know About Dominic Dragisich

Choice Hotels is considering external and internal candidates to lead the company after the sudden exit of its CEO on Wednesday, but for now, an insider is in charge. 

Dominic Dragisich, who joined Choice Hotels as CFO in 2017 and has overseen brands, operations, and growth strategy in the years since, will be interim CEO while a search is underway to replace Patrick Pacious. 

Dragisich’s fingerprints were on two of Choice’s biggest strategic bets of the past five years.

He was “instrumental” in Choice’s $675 million acquisition of Radisson Hotel Group, having managed the financial side and oversaw over $80 million in reported synergies. The 16-month integration finished ahead of schedule. The deal transformed Choice from a budg