Speakers Set for the 2nd Annual Mexico Resort Conference
December 4-6, 2006, La Jolla, CA
SAN DIEGO, CA, October 25, 2006. The Second Annual Mexico Resort Development Conference: Opportunites for Foreign Investment, has announced its complete speaker roster.
This year's conference will be held December 4-6 at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines, located just north of San Diego. The Conference is expected to attract 300+ commercial real estate investors and resort developers.
The speaker roster for this year's Conference includes some 40-plus experts in real estate, finance, law and marketing as applied to resort development within Mexico. These experts include most of the recognized names in the business, all of whom are associated with properties in Mexico, including:
o Kevin Bauer, Partner, East West Utilities
o Chuck Bedsole, Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal Real Estate Advisory Services LLC
o Adam Bernier, Director Latin America Real Estate, Cargill Value Investors
o Carl Berry, CEO, Star Resort Group
o Jorge Casta~neda, Author, Visiting Professor and Former Foreign Minister Mexico
o Greg Cory, Senior Vice President, Economics Research Associates
o Mitch Creekmore, Senior Vice President, Stewart International
o Bob Chickering, Principal, Economic Research Associates
o Bruce Davidson, Executive Director, Head of Hospitality Finance, West LB
o Roberto Delgato, Chairman & CEO, Eiffel Construction
o Greg Doman, Vice President, Fairmont Heritage Place
o Brett Ellsworth, President, Contact Development Corporation
o Jaime Gonzalez-Bendiksen, Partner, Baker & McKenzie Abogados, S.C.
o Alain Grange, Chief Executive, Sol Melia Vacation Club
o Bruce Greenberg, President, Bruce D. Greenberg Inc.
o Jim Grogan, President & CEO, Loreto Bay Company
o Bruce Greenburg, President, Bruce D. Greenburg Inc.
o Harold Hoekstra, Director of Tourism Development, Deloitte Mexico
o Charlie Lande, Partner, Baker & McKenzie
o Marco Larrea, Partner, EDSA
o Jos'e M. Larroque, Principal Partner, Baker & McKenzie
o Warren Markwart, Vice President Hotel Development, Fairmont Hotels and Resorts
o Jim Marmorstone, President, Tenstar Global Services
o Jaime Martinez, Managing Partner, Environmental Resources Management, Mexico
o Mauricio Monroy, Managing Partner, Deloitte Mexico
o John Newcomb, Partner, KMD Architects
o Rick Norton, President, Norton Consulting
o Santiago Ortiz Monasterio, Director General, Punta Mita
o Ren'e X. P'erez, Partner, Baker & McKenzie
o Juan Diego Perez Vargas, Principal, KMD Architects
o Richard Ragatz, President, Ragatz Associates
o Kevin Roberts, Vice President and Counsel, Contact Development Corporation
o Federico Ruanova, Partner, Baker & McKenzie
o Rodolfo Sanchez Arellano, Partner, Baker & McKenzie
o Judy Singer, Co-Owner, Health Fitness Dynamics
o Chris Snell, President, Snell Real Estate
o Gerardo Trevi~no, Deloitte Mexico
o David Young, Vice President, AIG Global Real Estate Investment Corp.
Dr. Jorge Casta~neda will present the opening keynote address:
Dr. Casta~neda is the former-Foreign Minister of Mexico and a renowned public intellectual, political scientist, as well as a prolific writer, with an interest in Latin American politics, comparative politics and U.S.-Latin American relations.
Born in Mexico City in 1953, Dr. Casta~neda received B.A. degrees from both Princeton University and the Universite de Paris-I (Pantheon-Sorbonne), as well as an M.A. from Ecole Pratique de Hautes Etudes, Paris I, and Ph. D. in Economics History from the University of Paris.
He has taught at Mexico's National Autonomous University (UNAM) Princeton, Berkeley and (since 1997) at NYU. Dr. Casta~neda was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1985-87) and was a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant Recipient (1989-1991). Among his many books are Utopia Unarmed: The Latin American Left after the Cold War (Knopf, 1993), The Mexican Shock (New Press, 1995), Compa~nero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara (Knopf, 1997), and Perpetuating Power: How Mexican Presidents Were Chosen (New Press, 2000). Dr. Casta~neda is also a regular columnist for the Mexican daily Reforma, and Newsweek International.
The Mexico Resort Development Conference is being presented by Baker & McKenzie, the world's largest international law firm; Contact Development Corporation, a leader in resort real estate development and investment in Mexico and Latin America; and Deloitte, the world's second largest provider of professional services and strategic advice. All three companies have substantial presence and tenure in Mexico's booming resort/residential/hospitality industries.
Fonatur, the Mexico government agency responsible for promoting tourism growth and resort development within the country, has endorsed the conference.
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