Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> June 26, 2000

Howard Silver – Equity Inns Inc (enn)

HOWARD A. SILVER has been President and Chief Operating Officer of Equity Inns, Inc., since June 1998. Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President of Finance, Secretary, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of Equity Inns from May 1994 and has been a Certified Public Accountant since 1980. From 1978 to 1985, Mr. Silver was with the national accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand. From 1985 to 1987, Mr. Silver was the Vice President of Finance of Fogelman Properties, a developer and manager of apartment complexes across the Southeast, and from 1987 to 1992, Mr. Silver was employed as a Certified Public Accountant with the national accounting firm of Ernst & Young. Mr. Silver holds a BS in Accounting from the University of Memphis. Mr. Silver is currently a Board member of Equity Inns, Hatchett Hospitality, a national hotel furniture, fixtures and equipment provider, and Ridgeway Country Club. Profile
TWST: Could you give our readers an overview of Equity Inns, Inc.?

Mr. Silver: Equity Inns is a hotel REIT that started back in March of

1994 with eight Hampton Inns in seven states. In the