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PRINCIPAL ADVISOR - HODGE & CO TOURISM & HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
With over 30 years in the tourism and hospitality industry, Mark has applied superior leadership and management skills to drive operations, accelerate growth and boosts profits within the hospitality and tourism sector. He has extensive experience in hotel operations management including a thorough understanding of both strata and typical hotel ownership models. Mark’s background includes leadership roles at the highest levels that include Chief Executive Officer, Senior Vice President and Group General Manager across singular and multiple corporate and resort style hotels. He is commercially astute with a strategic approach and recognised as a business driver and a trusted board and C-Suite asset. He excels at transforming and shaping operations to deliver agreed business objectives, confidently lead commercial restructures and acquisitions and consistently deliver improvements in employee sentiment, margins and profit.
He is deeply passionate about the team he works alongside and leads and can demonstrate a long history of steering and inspiring cultural change to deliver service and operational excellence in complex environments.
Mark is a current member of AICD and was previously a Director of the National Board of Accommodation Association of Australia (AAoA) . Over the past 4 years Mark has operated as the appointed Chairman for Accommodation Australia - QLD State Advisory as well as past board member and Director for Destination Gold Coast.
In 2022 he was awarded by his peers the Australian General Manager of the year at the annual HM awards .
He holds a current Queensland & New South Wales Real estate licences .
After working for various national & global organisations throughout his long and successful career Mark decided to establish his own advisory and consulting practice back in July 2023.
