What has he been doing? Consulting work. And obviously staying abreast of important industry trends.
How does this compare to the Marriott brothers? It is much, much, much, bigger. As cool as that 'name' was to have on board, very few on this board here ever acknowledge the utter lack of evidence that the Marriotts had any significant relation to Marriott Int'l. Whatever relation they did have got us in the door with Host, whereupon we promptly ran around the building and wired up our system. =)
Stay tuned for the next PR. =)