Patrick Imbardelli, chairman of the board of international hospitality company Next Story Group, has been elected to the YPO – a global leadership community of chief executives with approximately 28,000 members in more than 130 countries – board of directors from 2019 to 2022.
He also is serving as the chair of YPO’s Flagship Events Committee, and a member of the Compensation of the Human Resources Committee.
Imbardelli joined YPO as a member in 2003. Since 2006, Imbardelli has held several YPO leadership positions including chair of the Singapore Chapter, member of the South-east Asia Regional Board, and member of the Australia and New Zealand Regional Board. Imbardelli has also chaired several YPO’s global events and served on the Global Leadership Conference Supervisory Committee.
In his role as chair of the Flagship Events Committee, he also oversees YPO EDGE 2020, which will gather 2,500 CEOs and business leaders from around the world in San Diego, California, US, for an annual thought leadership summit conference.
Imbardelli has more than 30 years of hospitality experience. He has also served as a non-executive director and an advisor to Next Story Group for the last three years. In June 2019, he was appointed chairman of the Board of Next Story Group.
The hospitality veteran was formerly the chief executive Asia-Pacific of InterContinental Hotels Group, and the chief executive and a board member of Pan Pacific Hotels Group. He is also a director of IDEM Hospitality and The Goodnight Co., and previously a director and advisory board member of Symmons Industries in Boston.
