Ron Richards

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide LLC engages in the ownership and operation of hotels and resorts. It also owns Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., which provides vacation experiences through villa-style resorts. The firm operates hotel business in three separate hotel segments: the Americas, EAME and Asia Pacific. Each hotel segment owns and leases hotels and resorts operated primarily under their proprietary brand names includes St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, W, Westin, Le Méridien, Sheraton, Four Points by Sheraton, Aloft and Element. The company was founded by Barry Stuart Sternlicht in 1995 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

Discovery Digital Networks, Inc. provides online video shows. It operates as a multi-channel internet television network that creates, produces and distributes web television shows on niche topics. The company was founded by Ron Gorodetzky, David Lawrence Prager, Jay Steven Adelson, Dan Huard and Robert Kevin Rose in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.