EXECUTIVE ADVISORY
Sho Marks
: Chief Executive Officer / Founder
Over 25 years in all facets of the Hospitality Industry. A dynamic professional with strong leadership, and team-building skills with an entrepreneur mindset, creative design background, and business development expertise.
Known for the ability to devise, articulate a vision, and move teams to embrace it. A results-focused leader with in-depth knowledge of all aspects of hospitality management. Assessment of restaurant operations: creating sound and profitable business models, successful implementation of proper forecasting, cost containment, revenue generation, control of inventory levels and
overall direction for establishing a successful business.
Nuno Lourenco
: Partner
Resourceful and accomplished professional with more than 15 years of experience in hospitality management, directing operations, building high-performing teams, and optimizing internal operations to improve bottom-line results. Proven track record of identifying opportunities for improvement and integrating SOPs that drive positive organizational change. Collaborative communicator and strategic thinker continually focused on building relationships and promoting synergy across people and processes to promote cohesive business approaches and enhanced profitability.
Juan
Sebastiani
: Chief Financial Advisor
In 1988 to create his own Business Consulting Practice in Venezuela. In 1994, he became the head of the largest Consulting Firm in Brazil. In 2001, Juan decided to move back to the United State. He participated in 2 very successful startup companies. He then worked for 10 years for the largest consulting firm for small and medium businesses in the United States with a successful career mainly turning businesses around. In 2014, Juan started his Business Consulting Practice in Florida. He has held the Chief Financial Officer position for several companies while providing them with the highest levels of compliance while making sure management has accurate and timely information to run a profitable business.
CULINARY TEAM
Gordan
Maybury
:
Chef Maybury has 30 years of diverse, top-tier culinary experience, insight, innovation, and culinary knowledge. He is the Chef at Turnberry Resort where is oversees the complete culinary program. Maybury started out doing a traditional apprenticeship in Dublin, Ireland. Working his way up in Michelin-starred restaurants and hotels in that country. He has held positions in award-winning restaurants and hotels internationally from Arizona Biltmore, a Waldorf Astoria Resort, PGA Resort Palm Beach, the Loews Miami Beach Hotel, Peninsula Hotel New York and Hyatt Regency Grand Cayman.
Mark Militello
: James Beard Award-winning chef is often credited with putting South Florida on America’s culinary map. Recognized for creating contemporary cuisine that has Italian, Asian, and Caribbean influences. Militello opened his first restaurant - Mark’s Place - in North Miami Beach, Florida in 1988. It earned rave reviews and just two years later, Food & Wine named him one of the “10 Best Chefs in America.” In ensuing years, he operated four other namesake restaurants in South Florida: Mark’s Las Olas in Fort Lauderdale, Mark’s Mizner Park in Boca Raton, Mark’s South Beach on Miami Beach and Mark’s City Place in West Palm Beach. A Texan by birth, Militello studied pre-med at Marquette University in Milwaukee and earned culinary degrees from Florida International University, as well as New York State University. In addition to the James Beard Award for “Best Regional Chef” in the Southeast, he received two “Golden Dish” awards from GQ magazine and a “Distinguished Restaurant Award” from Conde Nast Traveler, among other prestigious accolades.
ACCOUNTING TEAM
Bonnie Whitaker
: As an outsource Restaurant CFO Bonnie helps restaurants grow and maximize profitability focusing on optimum operational efficiency, expense savings, cash management, and strategic planning. She has significant experience in finance and accounting with over 16 years’ operational experience in restaurants, bars, lounges, and hotels. Bonnie founded The Wayfarer Group, an accounting and financial consulting company specializing in restaurant start-ups, turnaround, and profit increase. Before partnering with IHG and starting The Wayfarer Group, Bonnie served various companies from Fortune 500 to small cap hedge funds in the capacities of Corporate Controller, Finance Manager, and Financial Analyst. Bonnie’s pertinent experience, qualifications, attributes, and skills include expertise in restaurant accounting, finance, and strategy.
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT
Ken Lee Chin : A creative and skilled social media expert with over 8 years of experience managing and building professional social media accounts. Successfully creating must follow social media feeds, to develop an engaged community of followers for clients. Increased inbound traffic for clients’ websites by up to 70 per cent through the development of content, application of analytics tools, and thoughtful collaboration with the web production team. Implement marketing tactics that successfully ranked restaurants to the top 5 best restaurants in Hollywood, FL on TripAdvisor within 5 months using organic tactics. Monetized over 30 celebrity Facebook accounts simultaneously. Developed online marketing campaigns effectively increasing 71.7 Million fans on Facebook using organic tactics and the development of viral content. Produced Billion link clicks using PCP ad strategies and tactics on Facebook. Generated 322 billion impressions across 30 celebrity accounts on Facebook. Generated 7.6 Billion video views across 30 celebrity accounts on Facebook. Acquired 150 million views on a single video for Facebook influencer “Mighty Duck”, increasing followers on Facebook page from 1 million to 7 million in 8 months.
DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, FF&E, AND OS&E
Roberta Alba : Roberta has had over 20 years of experience in Project Management, Development, Renovation and Construction of Hotels, Spas, and Luxury Yachts and Residential properties. As a tireless perfectionist, she has combined her multi-tasking abilities with strict organization, in addressing the intricacies of the design process.
