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Speakers: Development Track
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Eric Affeldt
President and CEO
ClubCorp
Eric is responsible for all aspects of domestic and international operations for “The World Leader in Private Clubs”. Prior to joining ClubCorp, Eric served as a principal of KSL Capital Partners, the private equity firm that purchased ClubCorp in 2006. Affeldt also previously served as president and CEO of KSL’s former golf division, KSL Fairways; vice president and general manager of Doral Golf Resort and Spa in Miami and the combined PGA West and La Quinta Resort and Club in California; and was a founding partner of KSL Recreation.
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Henry B. DeLozier
Principal
Global Golf Advisors
Henry B. DeLozier is a Principal in Global Golf Advisors, an international consultancy of service to the investment banking, real estate development and golf asset ownership and operations business segments. Mr. DeLozier joined Global Golf Advisors after nine years as the Vice President – Golf of Pulte Homes, the largest developer of golf course communities in the United States. For Pulte Homes, he developed 27 new golf courses within 10 states. During his tenure at Pulte Homes the company became the largest developer of golf communities and of golf courses in the USA having invested more than $500 million in the development of golf assets.
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Jarrad Evans
Vice President, Business Development
Troon Golf
Evans is responsible for growing Troon’s portfolio of high-end daily fee, resort and private golf, hospitality and leisure facilities throughout North America and the Caribbean. Prior to joining Troon Golf, he worked for Charles Schwab & Co. and the Millichap Real Estate Investment Services Company.
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Elisa A. Gaudet
President
Executive Golf International
Gaudet has over 10 years of experience in servicing clients with their marketing, public relations and sponsorship sales needs. She has specialized in the golf industry and has lived in the U.S., Spain and Latin America, working for organizations such as the PGA TOUR and Lucent Tour de las Americas. |
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Hud Hinton
President and CEO
Troon Golf
Hinton is widely recognized as one of the hospitality industry's most experienced brand, franchise and third-party management experts. Prior to joining Troon Golf in 1999, Hinton was executive vice president-hotel operations, North America, for Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide. Previously, he spent more than seven years as senior vice president-operations for Westin Hotels and Resorts. Earlier in his career, Hinton served as Managing Director of New York's Plaza Hotel and general manager of the Arizona Biltmore Resort in Phoeniz. |
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Bill Kubly
CEO
Landscapes Unlimited
Kubly, who anticipated the course-building decline curve years ago and diversified Landscapes to handle construction and maintenance of other recreational facilities as well, has also moved to capture some of the emerging golf construction business in Asia and the Middle East. Landscapes also remains active in course ownership and operation, with approximately 15 courses on the books, and has formed a management division. |
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Erik Larsen
Executive Vice President
Senior Golf Course Architect
Palmer Course Design Company
Larsen joined Palmer Course Design Company in 1983, and has been involved in the design of more than 100 completed golf courses worldwide. As Executive Vice President, Larsen manages the company for Mr. Palmer. As Senior Golf Course Architect he is completely involved with our clients in all aspects of a project from contract negotiation to construction completion. Larsen has been instrumental in the development of the new Palmer Premier program, the company’s new golf and luxury lifestyle model.
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Jon Last
President
Sports and Leisure Research Group
With over 20 years of management experience, Last heads White Plains, N.Y.-based Sports and Leisure Research, a full service marketing research consultancy that supports leading brands in sports marketing, travel, media and leisure categories. Prior to forming his own company, Last served for more than seven years as vice president of corporate marketing, research and brand development for Conde Nast’s Golf Digest Companies division and worked previously for the PGA of America.
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Richard Mandell
President
Richard Mandell Golf Architecture
Since 1992, Richard Mandell Golf Architecture has completed more than 40 golf course projects of all shapes and sizes. One of his designs, Blue Heron Golf Course, was recognized in 2007 by Golf Range Magazine as one of America’s top 10 short courses. His work at Water’s Edge Country Club won two separate Renovation of The Year Awards in 2009. Also an award-winning author, Richard has penned articles for numerous national and international magazines. He is currently working on golf course projects in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina as well as a new 27-hole development in Hunan Province, China. |
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Victoria Martz, ASGCA
VP/Senior Golf Course Architect/
Director of Environmental Design
Palmer Course Design Company
With over 25 years of experience as a golf course architect for Arnold Palmer Design Co. Victoria has designed courses internationally and throughout the United States. She has been a member of the ASGCA for 10 years and currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Environmental Institute for Golf (EIFG) where she is recognized as an advocate for sustainability and family-friendly designs.
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Ray Pena
Chairman
The Golf Estates Trail
Dominican Republic
Pena is the visionary guiding the development of The Golf Estates, a trail of several golf courses as the centerpieces of various resort developments lay out on several sites in the Dominican Republic. The Golf Estates development is going to be the first golf trail in the country. These developments offer a variety of terrains with challenging courses, and a myriad of real estate properties. Pena has a broad experience in finances and real estate in the Miami area and in the Dominican Republic.
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Rick Robbins
President
Robbins & Associates International
Robbins formed his own company, Robbins & Associates, in 1991 to focus on providing complete master planning, golf course design and project management services for projects in the Far East and U.S. markets. Since that time, he has designed many courses, resorts and golf communites in the U.S. and internationally. |
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John Sanford Jr., ASGCA
Principal
Sanford Golf Design
Lead designer and project manager for his own course design firm for the past 23 years, Sanford has worked throughout the world in Asia, the Caribbean, the Middle East and the U.S. Closer to the company’s Jupiter, Fla., home base, his Juliette Falls Golf Club in Ocala, Fla., and Granite Links Golf Club in Quincy, Mass., each earned “Top Ten Best New Golf Course” designations by Golf Digest and Golf Magazine in the past two years. |
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Paul Stringer
Executive Vice President
Nicklaus Design, LLC
Stringer has over 26 years of experience in the golf business, as a golf professional, general manager, and currently the Executive Vice President of Nicklaus Design. He currently oversees the design business and offices of Nicklaus Design both domestically and internationally. His focus is to familiarize developers with Nicklaus Design and then assists clients with analyzing their business plans; membership plans, financial proformas, and discussing strategies in providing support of the golf course and real estate development. Contract negotiations, consultant recommendations and monitoring of contractual obligations are also part of Paul’s role at Nicklaus Design.
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Bobby Weed
Principal
Weed Golf Course Design
Weed launched his career with an apprenticeship with Pete Dye in 1980, followed by 17 years of collaborative association. He was hired by the PGA Tour to oversee construction and design projects. He eventually became the Tour's in-house architect in 1987, designing many of the TPC venues that today host numerous PGA Tour events. |
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