LANSDOWNE, VA --- Bruce William McIntosh CHA, a hotel development and management specialist with extensive international experience, has been named vice president and general manager of The National Conference Center at Lansdowne. Recently purchased by Oxford Capital Partners, The National Conference Center, formerly the Xerox Document University outside Washington D.C., is newly emerged from a $29 million improvement campaign and is being developed by its new owners into one of the leading corporate conference and training destinations on the East Coast.
Bruce McIntosh has the combined hospitality industry experience and business acumen that we know to be so essential to realizing the full profit-generating and market share potential of this unprecedented facility. Now that Oxford Capital has acquired a facility that is unmatched in scale, capability and service culture, in Bruce we have also found an asset builder with the instincts of an entrepreneur to run it efficiently, profitably and with distinction, said Robert Kline of Oxford Capital Partners.
For the last ten years, McIntosh was president of McIntosh Alliance International Hotel Development, Inc., with offices in New York, Washington and Tucson. In that capacity, he helped develop Best Western International Hotels in the former Soviet Union and developed the $65-million Ritz Carlton in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt and hotels and resorts in the Caribbean, the Pacific Rim and the Mediterranean.
From 1987 to 1991, McIntosh was vice president, North America for
Renaissance Hotels and Resorts' International Division, where he was responsible for operations, development and sales and marketing for 15 Renaissance hotels in the U.S. and five in Canada.
Prior to Renaissance, McIntosh was vice president and managing director for the King Ranch Corporation in Toronto where he oversaw design and development of the $45-million health spa and supervised financing, operations, sales and marketing. Between 1978 and 1985, he managed several properties in Canada for the Valhalla Group of Companies, including the multi-million dollar expansion of the Valhalla Toronto Hotel, a newly constructed property on Thunder Bay and the Hidden Valley Resort in Huntsville.
His management experience also extends to a number of other luxury hotels, including Sutton Place Hotel and the original Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto. McIntosh began his hospitality career in food and beverage in Australia.
McIntosh is Honorary and Past President of the Hotel Association of Metropolitan Toronto, former Associate Director of the Canadian Nation Exhibition Association, Past President of the Canadian Hotel Marketing and Sales Executives, Past Vice Chairman and Member of the Board of the Metropolitan Toronto Convention and Visitors Association, Past President of the Ontario Hotel and Motel Association, a former member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Hotel Association and former member of the International Board of Directors at Best Western Hotels & Resorts. He is also a graduate of the Certified Hotel Administrator program from the American Hotel Association's Educational Institute at Michigan State University.
Born and educated initially in Australia, McIntosh also studied at Michigan State University's American Hotel and Motel Association Educational Institute and Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration.
About The National Conference Center at Lansdowne
Situated in one of the major commercial corridors in the Greater Washington, D.C. area, The National Conference Center, the largest of its kind in the country and managed, since 1974 by ARAMARK Conference Center Management, offers all the business and leisure benefits and attractions of the nation's capital plus the beauty, history and charm of the northern Virginia countryside, in a setting that ensures highly focused productivity. The center features state-of-the-art technology, 950 accommodations in three categories, 250 flexible meeting rooms, including a 4,000-square-foot conference and exhibit hall, the most modern training labs, a 32,000-square-foot Fitness Center (including an Outward Bound program, four tennis courts and a 25 meter swimming pool), and food and beverage facilities. Turn-key Complete Meeting Package (CMP) programs are facilitated by the center's highly trained conference services staff, one-on-one conference planning managers and extensive design, publishing, production, curriculum development and program evaluation capabilities.
Oxford Capital Partners Inc. is a private real estate investment and merchant banking firm founded in 1994 and headquartered in Chicago. Oxford places a particular emphasis on lodging transactions and in private equity investments in growth companies. The principals of Oxford have been involved in the acquisition, leasing, development, redevelopment and disposition of over $4.5 billion in real estate. In addition to The National Conference Center, other hospitality industry assets include the historic 700 room Hotel Lexington in Midtown Manhattan; Wyndham Hotels in downtown Wilmington, Delaware and Chicago's Magnificent Mile corridor; Wyndham Garden hotels in Atlanta, Georgia; the 385-room Sheraton North Shore in Northbrook, Illinois; and the Hawthorne Suites hotel in Schaumberg, Illinois.
ARAMARK Conference Center Management is the largest operator of conference centers, with more than 80 facilities worldwide. The company provides unique and tailored guest experiences for clients and partners from small executive retreats to elite European-style hotels to 1,500-room conference centers. Headquartered in Philadelphia, ARAMARK, a $7.3 billion world leader in managed services, has more than 170,000 employees serving 15 million people at 500,000 locations in 15 countries every day.
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