Andrew N. Todd
President & CEO
Andrew N. Todd is president and chief executive officer of Xanterra Parks & Resorts. He oversees all of the company's retail, dining and lodging operations, and other guest-service concessions. Xanterra is the largest park management company in the U.S. and provides services to 10 national parks, eight state parks and two privately owned resorts.
Through Todd's leadership, Xanterra Parks & Resorts has become widely recognized for the environmental stewardship it practices at all locations. Xanterra is the first hospitality company—and the eighth company worldwide—to commit to an absolute reduction target in greenhouse gas emissions and the first ever in the tourism industry to create and utilize measurable environmental performance metrics specific to the hospitality industry. Recently, Xanterra received the 2008 Global Hospitality and Design Award, Sustainable Hotel of the Year from Hotelworld. Xanterra is also the proud recipient of the 2006 Performance Track Corporate Leader Award from the Environmental Protection Agency and The Travel Industry Association’s coveted Odyssey Award for environmental leadership in the hospitality industry in 2004 and 2007.
Xanterra received national recognition for its efforts when The Good Earthkeeping Award was presented by the American Hotel and Lodging Association, which praised the company for successfully “balancing guests’ experiences with the vital need to preserve the park’s fragile natural resources.” Xanterra, headquartered in Colorado, captured the ColoradoBiz Top Company of the Year Award in 2005, and numerous other environmental awards in recent years from the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Xanterra properties include those at Death Valley, the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and the prestigious Silverado Resort and Spa in Napa Valley, California. Other high profile Xanterra operations include Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Bryce Canyon National Park, Zion National Park, Crater Lake National Park, and eight Ohio resorts. In 2007, Xanterra added to its operations Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado and The Grand Canyon Railway in Williams, Arizona.
Prior to being appointed president and chief executive officer of Xanterra, Todd was senior vice president of portfolio management for Chicago-based JMB Realty Corporation. Todd began his career at KPMG Peat Marwick prior to joining JMB.
A native of Indiana, Todd holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Indiana University. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the Young President's Organization, Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and American Institute of CPAs and in 2008 was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the category of Real Estate, Hospitality & Engineering.
