Hilton taps former Uber exec as CTO

Hilton’s appointment of a former Uber engineering leader as CTO signals that AI and digital experience have moved from enabling functions to core business strategy. By putting a technology executive with large-scale platform experience directly under the CEO, Hilton is aiming to accelerate AI adoption, improve guest experiences, and translate technology investments into measurable operating and revenue outcomes. For IT organizations, this reinforces the need for tighter CEO-CIO/CTO alignment, stronger product-and-platform operating models, and disciplined execution with external AI partners.