The ONE Group Hospitality, Inc. Announces Board Appointments
September 14, 2021 at 08:01 am EDT
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On September 13, 2021, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee (Committee) of the Board of Directors (Board) of The ONE Group Hospitality, Inc. recommended the election of Ms. Susan Lintonsmith and Ms. Haydee Olinger to the Board, and the Board (1) increased the size of the Board to seven and (2) elected each of Ms. Lintonsmith and Ms. Olinger as Class II directors, initially to serve until the 2022 annual meeting of stockholders. The Company expects that each of Ms. Lintonsmith and Ms. Olinger will be nominated for election at the next annual meeting of stockholders for the then remaining term of directors in their class. Susan Lintonsmith has over 30 years of experience as a strategist and branding expert in highly competitive consumer industries. Ms. Lintonsmith currently serves as Chief Brand Officer of AtYourGate, an in-airport order app and delivery service for passengers, flight crews, and airport employees. Prior to AtYourGate, she was the CEO of Elements Massage, a national massage therapy brand with over 250 locations across the United States and Canada. Haydee Olinger has over 30 years of corporate legal and business operations experience, including strategic planning, real estate leasing and purchasing transactions, franchise and licensee management, food safety, enterprise risk, corporate compliance and privacy. Ms. Olinger currently serves as a Senior Advisor at Baker Gilmore, a legal and compliance executive recruiting and advisory firm, where she provides advising, coaching, and consulting services to Chief Compliance Officers and other corporate executives.
The ONE Group Hospitality, Inc. is an international restaurant company, which develops and operates upscale and polished casual, high-energy restaurants and lounges and provides hospitality management services for hotels, casinos, and other high-end venues. Its primary restaurant brands and operations are STK, an American steakhouse concept with restaurants in various metropolitan cities in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, featuring steaks, seafood, and specialty cocktails; Benihana, an operator of highly differentiated experiential brands that owns the national teppanyaki brand in the United States; Kona Grill, a polished casual, bar-centric grill concept with restaurants in the United States; RA Sushi, a Japanese cuisine concept, and ONE Hospitality, its food and beverage hospitality services business that develops, manages, and operates restaurants and turnkey food and beverage services within high-end hotels and casinos operating in the United States and Europe.
THE ONE GROUP HOSPITALITY, INC. 
