Craig Wienckowski Joins Outrigger Enterprises Group as Corporate Director of Finance
HONOLULU, HAWAII - September 13, 2013 - Hans Weger, chief financial officer for Outrigger Enterprises Group, is pleased to announce the appointment of Craig Wienckowski to the position of corporate director of finance.
In his role, Wienckowski provides financial advice and support of the company's global business ventures, including asset management support for owned properties and financial and administrative guidance for potential development opportunities.
A multilingual finance professional, Wienckowski has experience in a wide variety of operation, management and investment platforms, including hotels, real estate, golf courses and real estate-backed debt.
Before joining Outrigger, Wienckowski was a director with the hotel investment, asset and hotel management company of Ishin Hotels Group in their portfolio management department in Tokyo, Japan. He also spent several years in the Tokyo offices of Goldman Sachs and prior to that was with Archon Group Korea, a commercial real estate investment management and mortgage loan company.
Wienckowski is a graduate of the University at Albany, State University of New York with a Bachelor of Arts double major in German Literature/Language and Political Science/International Relations. He also earned a Bachelor of Arts from Julius-Maximilians-Universitaet Wuerzburg in Germany.
Currently, Wienckowski is a member of Hospitality Asset Managers Association (HAMA) Japan, an organization of professionals responsible for proactively increasing asset values on behalf of hotel owners worldwide.
About Outrigger Enterprises Group
Outrigger Enterprises Group is one of the largest and fastest growing privately-held leisure lodging, retail and hospitality companies in the Asia-Pacific and Oceania regions and continues to expand its presence throughout the area. A family-owned company with 66 years of hospitality experience, Outrigger runs a highly-successful, multi-branded portfolio of hotels, condominiums and vacation resort properties, including Outrigger® Hotels and Resorts, OHANA® Hotels and Resorts, Embassy Suites®, Holiday Inn®, Best Western®, Wyndham Vacation Ownership® and Hilton Grand VacationsTM. Currently, Outrigger operates and/or has under development 45 properties with approximately 11,000 rooms located in Hawaii; Australia; Guam; Fiji; Bali; Thailand; Mauritius, Vietnam; and Hainan Island, China. Outrigger Enterprises Group also operates and develops hotel properties and hospitality-related retail and real estate opportunities for partners in Hawaii, the Pacific, and Asia. For on-line information, log on at www.outriggerenterprisesgroup.com and www.outrigger.com.
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