Bob Hoff, who recently retired as Omni’s longtime president, recalls one of the buying group’s first meetings under his auspices. “It was called ‘Winds of Change,’” he says.
Some three-plus decades later the winds of change are again upon Omni in an extremely positive way. The group’s recent Spring Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, featured a retirement tribute to Hoff during the general session that also acted as a symbolic passing of the torch to new president and longtime industry executive John Aykroyd.