Ed Mace has had a distinguished thirty-five-year career in the hotel business. He has served as a director of the San Francisco-based REIT, BRE Properties since 1998.
Previously, he served as President, Vail Resorts Lodging Company and Rock Resorts International LLC (both subsidiaries of Vail Resorts, Inc.) from 2001 to 2006. Mace served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts,U.S. /Mexico division, from 2000 to 2001 and as President and Chief Executive Officer of Fairmont Hotels, from 1996 to 2000. He was the Midwest regional director of management consulting for the Real Estate Industry Group of KPMG from 1994 to 1996.
Ed Mace holds an undergraduate degree from Cornell University.
The key and the challenge is learning to listen to them and learning to evolve a relationship where you know when the local partner's input should trump your instincts and your brand, your brand strategy or your brand standards for example or knowing when to say, no, this brand standard cannot be ad...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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