Towne Park Promotes Jeff Johnson to Vice President of Operations

Johnson to be Responsible for Operations across the West Coast and Southwest

Today, Towne Park officially announced the promotion of Jeff Johnson to Vice President of Operations overseeing operations in the western U.S. stretching from Seattle to San Diego and including Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, and other major markets.  He will be responsible for nearly 1,000 associates and over 100 clients including hotels, hospitals, luxury residences, garages, restaurants and event services.  Johnson previously held a District Manager position on the East Coast and joined Towne Park in 2006 after seven years with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts as a Rooms Executive.

"Jeff's skills and talents have been cultivated in the ranks of Towne Park and he is one of many recent internal executive promotions.  Jeff has strong intuition, fervent leadership skills, a passion to develop people, a laser focus on service and safety, and is customer centric.  He's a natural fit for the western U.S. and I'm excited that Jeff will be leading the way to bring more value to our customers and will set the stage to support our growth." - Matt Cahill, Executive Vice President of Operations

For more details, read the full press release circulated today on BusinessWire.

Dan Cowens Promoted to Vice President of Operations

Climbing the ladder from valet parker to executive

Today, Towne Park officially announced the promotion of Dan Cowens to Vice President of Operations overseeing operations in the Mid-Atlantic region stretching from Boston to Roanoke.  He will be responsible for nearly 1,000 associates and over 100 clients including hotels, hospitals, luxury residences, garages, and restaurants.

Read the official press release on BusinessWire http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101215006616/en/Dan-Cowens-Promoted-Vice-President-Operations

Dan Cowens

Vice President of Operations

Sonny Taragin has been appointed to a newly created position of Executive Vice President of Information Technology and Towne Park's Executive Committee.  Towne Park is reliant on technology solutions to assist us in keeping our company connected, scaling the business and improving information flow, and productivity.  Because of this, we created the position of Executive Vice President of Information Technology.  The IT group will continue to grow in the coming years and will play an ever increasing important role in developing technology based solutions to meet the challenges of our growing company.

"In addition to the many outstanding characteristics of the Towne Park business processes, culture and people, it is exciting for me to be a part of a company whose leadership is willing to invest in and elevate the role that technology plays in enabling us to serve our clients (and their guests) more effectively and efficiently. As we continue implementing our technology solutions, being a part of the Towne Park Executive Committee will help ensure that our technology strategies will always be aligned with our client needs and distinguish us from our competitors." -Sonny Taragin, EVP Information Technology

As our company continues to grow and prosper, it is imperative that we periodically reevaluate the organizational structure to ensure that we are able to adequately and efficiently support our company.  Historically, because of our fast paced growth, we have reorganized the company every two years or so, each time improving our capabilities and competencies to ensure that we are prepared to sustain our growth rate.  We are at another one of those times. 

As a result of the company's realignment, we are excited to announce a number of promotions including:

• Rick Sorrells, Executive Vice President of Administration
• Beverly Valltos, Vice President of Administration and Compliance
• Jennifer Leroux, Vice President of Finance
• Matt Cahill, Executive Vice President of Operations
• Steffan Sonneveldt, Senior Vice President of Operations
• Sonny Taragin, Executive Vice President of Information Technology
• Kirk Pozadzides, Vice President of Special Markets