BAYSTAR HOTEL GROUP PRINCIPALS

George Glover
George E. Glover, CHA
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
BayStar Hotel Group

  • From 1983 - 2000 --- President - CEO, Wilson Hotel Management Co., Inc. Memphis, TN (30 hotels at peak)

  • Partner - Developer, ten hotels

  • Chairman - Board of Directors, IAHI - International Franchise Association, Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG)

  • 1978 - 1983 - Holiday Inns, Inc. - District Director and General Manager

  • Past Co-Chairman, AH&LA International Council Hotel Management Companies

  • Governmental Affairs Committee, American Hotel & Lodging Assn.

  • Direct hotel operating experience - Tampa Bay and Orlando area

  • Presented with Kemmons Wilson Service Award in 12/04 from IAHI for highest recognition by IAHI for service to IHG and its franchisees


Ford Smith
Ford B. Smith
President
BayStar Hotel Group

  • Ford Smith, one of the company’s founders, calls on his background in the hospitality and construction industry as president/director of development for BayStar Hotel Group. Smith oversees all aspects of development for BayStar. Smith has been in charge of the development of four new-construction hotels as well as a renovation/repositioning of three other existing hotels.

  • Prior to founding BayStar, Smith was president of Metropolis Developers, a residential developer specializing in custom homes in the Tampa Bay area. While at Metropolis, Smith has overseen the construction of over 60 custom homes. Smith has also been involved with land development and sales of outparcels.

  • Prior to starting Metropolis in 1994, Smith served as marketing director for the Tigert Company, a South Tampa custom homebuilder. There he was responsible for the design and implementation of all marketing and advertising campaigns for Tigert’s multiple residential developments.

  • Prior to Tigert, Smith spent 11 years in the full-service restaurant business, starting in the “back of the house” operations and eventually becoming part owner of one of the most popular full-service restaurants in the Tampa Bay area at the time. He was responsible for overseeing all aspects of its operation.

  • Smith graduated with honors from Tampa College with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. He is also a State Certified Class “C” General Contractor and an Instrument-rated private pilot.



Norman Giovenco
J. Norman Giovenco, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
BayStar Hotel Group

  • Pender Newkirk & Co. – Partner – 15 years public accounting experience; attestation and tax services including hotel clients; financing advice / negotiations; private / public offerings and related filings

  • Principal / CFO – Gatsby Corporation (2 years) – design and implementation of turnaround strategy including refinancing, operational efficiencies, and sale to Jacuzzi for $20mm

  • Principal / CFO – Universal Sign, LLC (3 years) – design and implementation of turnaround strategy including refinancing, operational efficiencies

  • Principal /CFO – CineVentures Network, Inc. (2 years) – Development and implementation of a business model to include procuring of major customers and raising $2mm of equity funding














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