Speakers

Kevin is president and CEO of Jebel Ali International Hotels. Based in Dubai, Jebel Ali owns and operates five luxury resort hotels in the UAE with over 700 rooms, and has signed multiple third-party management contracts for luxury resorts in Sri Lanka, Thailand, the Maldives, the Seychelles, India and Vietnam. Kevin has over 25 years experience in the hospitality industry in all major leisure real estate markets around the world where he has conceived, developed, operated and managed numerous mixed use hotel and integrated resort projects involving residential real estate, serviced apartments, commercial centres, golf courses and marinas. He was also president of Centara International Management, Thailand‘s leading hotel group, where he orchestrated the growth of the company fourfold over a three-year period, and from Thailand alone to ten countries. Prior to that he was president and CEO of Wyndham Worldwide ‘s NorthCourse Leisure Real Estate Solutions , president and CEO of Grand Circle Cruise Lines and president and CFO of Mirage Resorts and Hotels.