DANBURY, Connecticut—To develop its portfolio and capital associate alliances, Meyer Jabara Lodges welcomed Ian McAuley as chief funding officer. On this newly created place, McAuley will supply acquisition alternatives, fairness traders, debt financing, and third-party administration contracts. He has 30 years of expertise in publicly traded and privately held actual property, in addition to in resort improvement, operations, and possession.
“Good issues actually do come to those that wait,” stated Meyer Jabara Lodges President Justin Jabara. “Ian is the rainmaker we now have been trying to find—for effectively over a 12 months. He spent his profession elevating capital from kitchen tables to Wall Avenue, co-founded a administration firm, operated resorts, and is aware of the place the cash is made. His breadth of expertise is profoundly distinctive on this area. With Ian working the funding aspect of our enterprise, we will focus extra intently on operations, profitability, and development. We welcome him aboard.”
McAuley will relocate from Toronto to the corporate’s workplace in West Palm Seaside, Florida. Within the brief time period, he’ll deal with attending to know individuals, tradition, and working practices. Within the midterm, he’ll converse to the funding group about MJH’s differentiators and deal with securing sources of capital. And in the long run, McAuley will search out capital companions that don’t learn about MJH and introduce them to the corporate.
Through the years McAuley has included greater than $2 billion in actual property transactions throughout North America. His company finance expertise with personal fairness and institutional capital companions consists of greater than 100 ground-up developments and acquisitions, together with a number of preliminary public choices.
Prior posts embody co-founder, CEO, president, and director of VM Lodge Acquisition Corp; Canadian president of Aimbridge Hospitality; president of American Lodge Earnings Properties REIT LP; president and COO of Superior Lodging Corp.; co-founder and government vp of Royop Hospitality Corp.; and co-founder and vp of InnVentures Hospitality Corp.
McAuley is a graduate of the College of Toronto—ICD-Rotman Administrators Training Program and holds a Dipl T Hospitality, and Bachelor of Arts and Grasp of Enterprise Administration levels. He’s a board member of Northern Imaginative and prescient Improvement LP, present board member and government of The Musical Stage Co., former two-term director of the Lodge Affiliation of Canada, and was a board member of Hilton Lodges Advisory Board, Hallmark Properties Ltd., Airline Lodges and Resorts Ltd., and Theatre Calgary.
