CaliberCos Inc. announced that Dan Hansen, former Chairman, President and CEO of Summit Hotel Properties Inc., joined its Board of Directors earlier this year. In addition, Lawrence X. Taylor, President of Taylor Strategy Group, is serving as a Board Advisor. Hansen, former Chairman, President and CEO of Summit Hotel Properties Inc., brings more than three decades of experience as a business executive, advisor, and board member to Caliber.

He previously served on Caliber’s Advisory Board prior to the Company going public. He led Summit Hotel Properties from 2011 to 2021, when he transitioned to Executive Chairman of the company, a role he held through December 2021. Prior to joining Summit, Hansen spent 11 years at Merrill Lynch in several leadership positions, culminating as a vice president and regional sales manager covering the four-state Texas Mid-South Region.

Hansen earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from South Dakota State University. Hansen resides in Austin, Texas, with his family. Taylor’s experience spans start-ups, private companies, and publicly traded companies across diverse industries, including casino gaming, hospitality, manufacturing, aviation, commercial real estate, retail, and healthcare.

Currently, he is President of Taylor Strategy Group advising companies on finance, strategy, growth initiatives and related activities. Previously, Taylor served as Partner and Managing Director at Odyssey Capital Group, Chief Financial Officer at Excorp Medical Inc., Corporate Director of Investment Relations at Grand Casinos Inc., and others. He is a Board Leadership Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), is Directorship Certified by the NACD, and was recognized as a “Director to Watch” in 2020 by the Private Company Director Magazine.

Taylor earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Louisiana Tech University. Taylor resides in Litchfield Park, Ariz., and is an avid cook, woodturner, golfer, and tennis player. His daughter, Bryn, is a freshman at Creighton University studying nursing.