Administration

Karen Sims

Vice President, People & Development

Interests: Corporate communications, business acumen, human resources management

If not advertising, what would you do?
Return to radio or space travel. (Not really!)

If you could bring one person to dinner with you, who would you bring?
My paternal great-grandmother, Elizabeth—I never met her. If she is booked for the evening, then Ronald Reagan.

When you were young, what was a dream or aspiration you had for when you grew up?
To be a maid in a hotel after a childhood trip to a big hotel in NYC. I have always been amazed by the complexity of hotel operations, anyway and still am today! I also still take all of the little shampoo bottles from anywhere I stay. Yes, Hampton Inn, I’m the one! Also, a radio DJ but that came true!

What is your life motto?
Play like a champion today.

If you could sum up your personality in one word, what would that word be?
Yikes