Gustavo Ripol
March 4, 2024

Gustavo Ripol

Gustavo Ripol is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Leisure Partners, a company dedicated to providing advisory, planning and development, commercialization, and asset management services to a variety of owners, developers,...

John McCarthy
March 4, 2024

John McCarthy

Born and raised in Mexico. 35 plus years of experience in tourism development, including master-planned communities, hotels, resorts, golf, marinas, timeshares, etc. Head of Bancomer’s Tourism Division and Head of...

Tim Peck
March 4, 2024

Tim Peck

As a Chairman of OBMI and a specialist in resort design, Tim remains driven by the art of architecture, but his approach is defined by a vision backed by discipline...

Scott Dyde
March 4, 2024

Scott Dyde

Scott Dyde is the founding partner and a director of SALA Design Group, a leading Landscape Design and Planning firm that specializes in hospitality and tourism related projects. Based in...

Ron de Wit
March 4, 2024

Ron de Wit

Ron is a Managing Director in Horwath HTL in Australia and has over 35 years of experience in the hospitality industry in Australia and the South Pacific from initially working...

David Simpson
March 4, 2024

David Simpson

David is the Managing Director of Axsia HTL, a leading hotel investment advisory firm headquartered in Melbourne Australia, with branch offices in Sydney, Auckland and Singapore. Axsia provides advice through...

Herbert Mascha, Emeritus

I live in Vienna, Austria, and received engineering degrees from the University of Vienna and the University of Florida. Since the late nineties, I have worked for hotel owners and...

Joseph Champ
March 4, 2024

Joseph Champ

Joe Champ has over 40 years of experience in the hospitality industry. This experience includes extensive practical applications in the areas of hotel franchising, management contracts, hotel branding, acquisitions, dispositions,...

Sarah Churchill
March 4, 2024

Sarah Churchill

Sarah Churchill brings over a decade of experience in the hospitality industry, spanning client strategy, business development, CapEx planning, and FF&E procurement. As Director of Client Services for the Hospitality...