Robert Rowling
Robert B. Rowling is an American billionaire businessman, and the Founder of TRT Holdings, the holding company of Omni Hotels and Gold’s Gym.
- In 1996 he reinvested $500 million from selling the family’s oilfields into the purchase of Omni Hotels.
- The Omni chain has 60 locations and 21,000 rooms nationwide with big new hotels in Dallas, Atlanta and Boston.
- Rowling still owns Gold’s Gym, with 700 locations worldwide. He had it up for sale in 2018.
- He gave $25 million to the University of Texas business school in 2013.
- In 2019 he completed the $170 million renovation of Omni Barton Creek Resort in Austin.
