KEVIN J. WALLACE
London, UK
Tel.44-7717-681550
Global Fax. 1-435-921-8917
Email: kevenjwallace@aol.com
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Educational Background
Harvard Business School, Boston, MA. USA
MBA with honors, June 1975.Concentration in real estate, finance, and service industry management. Charles E. Cotting Fellow. President of HBS Rugby Football Club.
Harvard College, Cambridge, MA. USA
BA with honors in June 1973.Concentration in government and economics, National Merit Scholar, John Harvard Scholar, Sears Foundation Scholar. Captain of Rugby Team and Varsity Baseball.
Business History
Wyndham Hotels and Resorts Group
President and CEO
NorthCourse Advisory Services
Parsippany, NJ and London, UK
January 2006 until present
Head of all of the Wyndham Hotel and Resort Group’s worldwide luxury leisure real estate advisory and investment banking services. Have restructured the business from one office in the USA to a global business with offices in New York, Orlando, Portland, London, Dubai, Madrid, Munich, Singapore, and Shanghai and tripled revenues in the past year. Focus is on advice to entrepreneurs/owners/developers/operators developing and operating resorts with a high-end residential component via direct whole ownership sales, condo-hotels, villas, timeshare, fractional, private residence clubs and destination clubs.
The functional area of expertise includes construction and development, project management, finance, operations management, market and financial feasibility, business modeling and planning, implementation, over all strategy, sales and marketing plans, capital raising, and individual and portfolio hotel and resort acquisitions and disposals. Have grown the client base to over 2,000 clients in 65 countries with a major focus on Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Americas/Caribbean and developed a global white label sales and marketing turn key solutions business for major hospitality clients around the globe. NorthCourse has a 33 year history and is the clear leader in its field.
Grand Circle Cruise Lines and Travel Company
President and COO
Boston, Ma. , USA
January 2001 until January 2006
Responsible for all integrated operations including direct marketing, quality and excellence, revenue and inventory management, finance, fleet acquisition management including nautical and hospitality operations, planning and control for this major luxury cruise line consisting of 27 owned ships and 18 chartered ships carrying over 200,000 passengers and accounting for $ 600 million in revenue and $30 million in profits, all company records representing a major turnaround and return to profitability. Employees total over 4000 based in Europe, Russia, Asia, Africa, North and South America, the South Pacific, and Egypt.
Started up a 360-passenger cruise operation in Tahiti including land and lodging operations through acquisition of the M/s Paul Gauguin.
Responsible for acquisitions of four major ship operating companies in a Russia, France, the Galapagos and the Bahamas, including Continental Waterways which doubled fleet capacity in 12 months.
Lonoma Resorts and Hotels, S.L.
Mallorca, Spain and St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles
President and CEO
January 1991 until January 2001
Established and built this five-star luxury, integrated resort and hotel development company from scratch with global financial partners. Sold to a group of private European investors in late 2000. Responsible for overall leadership of this US$ one billion fully integrated resort and hotel management, development and owning company with seven operating units and 2000 employees in Spain, the Caribbean and Central America targeting the high-end individual travelers with a primary emphasis on resort residential sales in the form of whole ownership villas, condo-hotels and high-end fractional. Built a team from scratch for all mixed use hotel and resort operating, development, construction, project management and purchasing functions as well as resort real estate sales and marketing functions encompassing hotels, casinos, marinas, golf courses, villa/vacation ownership and condo developments, hotel training schools, cruise ship terminals, retail outlets and conference and meeting facilities. Personally spear-headed corporate strategy and development, acquisitions, site selection, project management, contract negotiations, legal affairs, local government affairs, and shareholder/main board relations. Have good in-depth knowledge of all global hotel and resort real estate markets including North and South America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the European/Mediterranean hotel and resort markets.
Mirage Resorts Inc.
Australia, Hawaii and California
January 1986 until January 1991
President and CFO
Chief Executive for this luxury, five-star integrated resort and hotel owning and development company. Owned four properties, two by acquisition, two by development. All properties had diversified multi-stream income sources through marinas, retail outlets, conference facilities, hotels, villa-condo real estate sales, golf courses and sporting facilities, including the innovative fractional marina program. Headed the acquisition, expansion and financing of the golf, villa and St. Regis Hotel site adjacent to the Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel Hotel in California as well as for the acquisition by public takeover of the 6,000 acre, 300 room hotel Princeville Resort together with its three PGA golf courses, a US$ 400 million residential project with over 6,000 residential units of all types. Also responsible for the management of the US$ 180 million /294-room Mirage Gold Coast resort and 300 room/US$ 250 million Mirage Port Douglas Resort at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Mirage was valued at US$ 2 billion prior to sale private sale in 1991 and had 1500 employees.
R E S UM E
KEVIN J. WALLACE
Lloyds Bank International Limited
Australia
July 1975 until January 1986
Managing Director
Head of Lloyds Bank’s investment banking activities in Asia, Australia and the South Pacific. Responsible for a staff of 50 people and all product delivery including commodity finance, origination of international debt equity issues including initial public offerings, sales and trading of securities, syndicated loans, real estate and project finance and corporate advice including mergers and acquisitions. Also responsible for credit, accounting and administration of banking offices in South and Southeast Asia including a loan and securities book over US$ one billion.
Raised over US$ ten billion for clients.
OTHER:
Married with two children.
Fluent in French and good facility with Spanish
Willing to relocate and travel extensively
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