Jeroen Gerrese is President, CEO of Shiraz Group, LLC
Mr. Gerrese is one of the hospitality industry’s top operators he is uniquely qualified to oversee advisory services associated with pre and post opening operations and asset management of hotels and resorts.
Mr. Gerrese has over 25 years of experience and is a respected industry leader. His impressive credentials include a detailed knowledge of the operations of national and international hotels and resorts that cater to the discriminating traveler.
Mr. Gerrese worked for nearly 10 years with Marriott Hotels and Interstate Hotels and Resorts, both domestically and abroad. Mr. Gerrese opened the Marriott Royal, adjacent to the world famous Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and was an Area GM for the 3 hotels. Mr. Gerrese’s last position was with Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort & Spa which received the much coveted AAA Four Diamond award under his leadership.
Prior to joining Marriott, Mr. Gerrese was the Managing Director for the Millennium Britannia Hotel on Grosvenor Square in London, UK. Before that he spent 12 years in New York where, as Hotel Manager, he oversaw the opening of Intercontinental Hotels Group’s 770 rooms, Crowne Plaza Hotel in Times Square. He has also served as General Manager of the Drake Hotel on Park Avenue, as well as Executive Director/General Manager of the world famous Waldorf Towers at the Waldorf Astoria. In this capacity, Mr. Gerrese helped make the Towers one of the select “Leading Hotels of the World” and catered to the world’s captains of industry, including the United Nations General Assembly, which he hosted each year. Before his time in New York, Mr. Gerrese spent 5 years with Omni Hotels in various executive leadership positions.
Apart from his work, Mr. Gerrese maintains an active commitment to education and the community. He has been a guest lecturer at NYU and has been involved in several chamber boards in California and Moscow. His past activities include serving as the Vice Chair at the Ocean Institute and as Chairman of the Tourism Business Improvement District.
Mr. Gerrese has received 2 Distinguished Citizen awards from the cities of Baltimore, Maryland and Providence, Rhode Island. He won “Hotel of the Year” twice with Marriott and was named the “General Manager of the Year” by the Southern California writers. In addition to a Priority Club award from Intercontinental Hotels Group, he was voted one of the 12 Best Food & Beverage Directors by Esquire magazine and John Mariani. Mr. Gerrese is a graduate of the University of Hotel Management Maastricht, The Netherlands and holds a post Graduate degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
