Mr. James M. McCary, Vice President-Operations, High Hotels, Ltd., has been with the company since February 1989. His responsibilities are to provide support service to the hotels in the areas of pre-opening, operations, purchasing and marketing. Reporting to Mr. McCary are the Annapolis, Maryland Hampton Inn & Suites, the Middletown, New York Hampton Inn, and the Hilton Garden Inn, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Mr. McCary joined High Hotels, Ltd. with previous experience spanning 12 years in operations with Crown American Hotels in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He managed five of their full-service Holiday Inns and limited-service Compri Hotels by Doubletree. Upon joining High Hotels, Mr. McCary was the opening General Manager of High’s first hotel, the Lancaster, Pennsylvania Hampton Inn which became the #1 Hampton Inn in the Hampton Inn chain that year, then he subsequently assisted in the opening of the Harrisburg-West, Pennsylvania and York, Pennsylvania Hampton Inns.

He also assisted in the acquisition and management of the Reading, Pennsylvania Hampton Inn and then moved on to open and manage the Homewood Suites Hotel in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania which became the #1 Homewood Suites Hotel in Customer Service that year. He then was promoted to Director, Sales & Marketing and Operations Analyst, High Hotels, Ltd. at the corporate level before assuming his current position.

Mr. McCary attended Duquesne University and Allegheny Community College in Pittsburgh, PA majoring in Hotel Management and also completed the General Manager’s Course conducted by Holiday Inns, Inc. and the General Manager’s Course conducted by Hampton Inns, Inc., Homewood Suites Hotels, and Hilton Garden Inn hotels.