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Alan C. Villaverde
President, Peabody Hotel Operations
Managing Director, The Peabody Orlando
Alan C. Villaverde joined The Peabody Orlando in 1993 as vice president/general manager, bringing with him 23 years of hotel/hospitality management expertise. He came from a similar position with the Stouffer Orlando Resort. In 2006, Villaverde was elevated to Executive Vice President of Peabody Hotels with responsibility for The Peabody Memphis and The Peabody Little Rock in addition to his role as general manager of The Peabody Orlando. In 2009, Villaverde was promoted to President of Peabody Hotels Division and Managing Director of The Peabody Orlando. During his seventeen-year Peabody tenure, he has garnered almost every major hotel award for The Peabody Orlando, including the coveted Mobil Travel Guide Four Star, AAA Four Diamond and Conde Nast Traveler's Top 100 Business Hotels awards.
Villaverde began his career as a sales manager with the Hilton Hotel Corporation at Rye Town Hilton Hotel, Rye, New York, and was subsequently promoted to director of sales for Hilton's Tarrytown Hotel in Tarrytown, NY. Later, he became vice president of sales with the Stouffer corporate office, Cleveland, OH., responsible for 35 properties throughout the United States and the Caribbean. He was then appointed VP/GM for the Stouffer Harborplace Hotel, Baltimore, MD. He also served as general manager for the Stouffer Concourse Hotel, Washington, D.C., and the Stouffer Bedford Glen Hotel, Boston, MA. During his career, Villaverde has opened four new, major hotels.
Villaverde was honored as Maryland Hotelier of the Year, 1991; was named Peabody Hotel Group's Top General Manager, 1995 and 1998; Central Florida Hotelier of the Year, 1997; State of Florida GM of the Year, 1997, American Hotel & Motel Association's Outstanding GM of the Year, 1999. In February, 2000, he was named among Central Florida's 100 Most Influential People by The Orlando Business Journal. In 2007 he was named "Most Influential Executive" by Orlando Magazine. Preferred Hotel Group awarded the coveted 2011 Hotelier of the Year Award to Villaverde.
Over the years, Villaverde has held numerous board of director positions including the Maryland Tourism Council and the Sheppard Pratt Hospital Advisory Board for Adolescent Development. In 2000, he became chairman of the Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau. He has been a board member of the Central Florida Hotel & Motel Association and past president of the E.T.C.. He currently serves as Chairman of the I-Drive Improvement District, Chairman of the I-Drive C.R.A., and Board Member of the Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Always a leader in fund-raising and charitable causes, Villaverde chaired the first three fund-raising campaigns for the "Food for All" project of the Maryland Food Bank Committees, raising $900,000 of food products for the needy. This earned him the Governor's Citation for Exemplary Efforts in Caring and Community Outreach. Likewise in Orlando, Villaverde is a tireless fund-raiser on behalf of Give Kids The World, a local wish-granting organization providing memorable vacations for terminally-ill children and their families from around the world. Villaverde and his wife, Mary Kay, also support "Seniors First" sponsoring an annual fund raiser providing financial aid for this organization that serves the elderly in Central Florida.
Villaverde, a native of New York City, has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York. Villaverde resides in Orlando with his wife, Mary Kay, and daughter, Kathryn. |
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