Choice Hotels Promotes Indian American Sireesha Kunduri to Chief of Product Engineering

She has been a key member of the hotel chain’s engineering team since 2016, most recently serving as senior director.

Choice Hotels International has promoted Sireesha Kunduri to vice president of engineering for distribution and revenue management. In this role, she will “oversee the delivery and success of the company’s distribution and revenue management platforms,” the hotel chain said in a press release. Additionally, she will be “heavily involved in the company’s cloud migration efforts and investments in machine learning and artificial intelligence, all of which are aimed at building the world’s best technology platform for franchisees.

Kunduri has been a key member of Choice’s engineering team since 2016, most recently serving as senior director of engineering. She was “essential to last year’s successful launch of choiceEDGE, the largest technology project in company history,” according to Chief Technology Officer Brian Kirkland. She is results-driven and I know her extensive experience supporting cross-functional business needs will continue to fuel opportunity for Choice and our owners in both the near- and long-term.”

Before working at Choice, Kunduri held several leadership positions at GoDaddy, including director of software development, where she oversaw the company’s website, proprietary call center applications, and internal ticketing systems. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from Andhra University and the University of Houston, respectively.