Gordon D. Sondland

Gordon D. Sondland is Founder and Chairman of Provenance Hotels and co-founder of the Aspen Companies. Provenance owns and operates several award winning boutique hotels on the West Coast. The hotels include Hotel Murano, the number six hotel in the US according to Conde Naste magazine, as well as the Hotel deLuxe and Hotel Lucia in Portland, OR and the Hotel Max in Seattle, WA.

Sondland was a member of the transition team for Governor Ted Kulongoski's administration and was appointed by Governor Kulongoski to serve on the board of the Governor's Office of Film & Television. In 2007 President George W. Bush appointed Sondland as a member of the Commission on White House Fellows. Sondland serves on the Board of Trustees at the Oregon Health & Science University Foundation. Sondland joined the Board of Trustees at the Portland Art Museum in 1996 and was elected Chair of the Executive Committee in 2009. The Board of Trustees Room at the Portland Art Museum is named after Sondland and his wife Katherine Durant. A gallery in the Center for NW Contemporary Art also bears his name.

Sondland founded the Gordon D. Sondland & Katherine J. Durant Foundation in 1993 which makes gifts to help families and boost communities. In 2009 the Foundation gave $1 million to the Portland Art Museum to endow permanent access for children under the age of eighteen in perpetuity.

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• Sondland Durant Foundation [1]
• Provenance Hotels [2]
• Aspen Capital [3]
• Conde Naste Award [4]
• Governor's Office of Film & Television [5]
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• OHSU Foundation [7]
• Commission on White House Fellows [8]
• Portland Art Museum/Sondland Durant gift [9]
• Sondland Durant Trustee Room [10]