Arne Morris Sorenson (October 13, 1958 – February 15, 2021) was a Japanese-born American hotel executive. He was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Marriott International.[1] He was born in Tokyo. He studied at the University of Minnesota.[2]
Sorenson became the head of the largest publicly traded hotel chain in the world on March 31, 2012.[3] He had been a director for Wal-Mart,[4] and was the Chief Operating Officer for Marriott.[5]
In May 2019, Sorenson was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.[6] He died from the disease on February 15, 2021 at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 62.[7][8]