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Kokua Hospitality AppointsGarry Cox as General Manager of the New Axiom Hotel, Opening in San Francisco in September 2015
Garry Cox, General Manager
(SAN FRANCISCO, CA; February 24, 2015) –Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. and Kokua Hospitality, LLCare pleased to announce the appointment of Garry Cox as General Manager of theAxiom Hotel (28 Cyril Magnin St.), opening in the heart of San Francisco’s Union Squarein the former Powell Hotel space in fall 2015. With over three decades of experience in hospitality management,Cox brings a diverse operational expertise from all facets of the hotel industry to his new role.
“It is an absolute pleasure to introduce this new property to the tech-forward San Francisco Bay Area,” says Cox. “We are looking forward to offering our guests an experience that pays respect to the city’s rich past and looks forward to what’s to come next.”
Cox began his career in hospitality at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando, Florida and went on to spend thirteen years at Hyatt working various management positions at the company’s different locations.He then went on to join the teamsat the Loews Royal Pacific Resortand the Hard Rock Hotel at Universal Orlandobefore becoming a hospitality consultant in 2013. While consulting, Cox had the chance to work with properties including the Embassy Suites Baltimore, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, and Hard Rock Hotel Cancun. It was as a consultant that he became introduced to Kokua Hospitality and went on to take the General Manager role of their newest project.
As a forerunner in the hospitality industry’s evolvements in technology, Cox was a member of the Loews Technology Task Force where his team created a new technology vision for Loews Hotels, including a new front office experience.He has relocated to San Francisco to join the Axiom team and has become actively involved in the local community,becoming a member ofthe San Francisco Hotel Council and the California Hotel & Lodging Association.
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About Axiom Hotel
Scheduled toopen infall 2015, the Axiom Hotel is located in the heart of downtown San Francisco, two blocks from Union Square, three blocks from the Moscone Convention Center, and steps from the cable car turnaround. Developed by Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. and managed by Kokua Hospitality, LLC, the hotel will feature 152 rooms and tech-forward amenities unrivaled to any other property in the city. For more information, please visit For up-to-date news about the property, follow the hotel’s Facebook and Twitter.
AboutHost Hotels & Resorts
Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. is an S&P 500 and Fortune 500 company and is the largest lodging real estate investment trust and one of the largest owners of luxury and upper-upscale hotels. The Company currently owns 97 properties in the United States and 17 properties internationally totaling approximately 59,000 rooms. The Company also holds non-controlling interests in five joint ventures, including one in Europe that owns 19 hotels with approximately 6,500 rooms and one in Asia that has interests in four hotels in Australia and India. Guided by a disciplined approach to capital allocation and aggressive asset management, the Company partners with premium brands such as Marriott®, Ritz-Carlton®,Westin®, Sheraton®, W®, St. Regis®, Le Méridien®, The Luxury Collection®, Hyatt®, Fairmont®, Hilton®, Swissôtel®, ibis®, Pullman®, and Novotel® in the operation of properties in over 50 major markets worldwide. For additional information, please visit the Company’s website at
About Kokua Hospitality, LLC
Kokua Hospitality, LLC, is a hotel management firm founded by its parent, The Chartres Lodging
Group, LLC, with the mandate to become the operator of choice for strategic institutional and select
private lodging investors by producing superior results as turnaround specialists. Created by
veteran lodging investment and management experts to appeal to an investor’s sensibility, Kokua
Hospitality blends best-in-class operating practices with an owner’s DNA. Kokua Hospitality
manages a growing portfolio of hotels and resorts nationwide. For more information on Kokua
Hospitality, please visit and follow us on Twitter @kokuahotels
and Facebook @