From global finance to hospitality growth.
200+ Properties. Decades of Strategic Insight.
Gary’s career spans hospitality, real estate, taxation, international consulting and corporate finance. His experience includes executive leadership at Leisure, senior roles with Ernst & Young and financial oversight for major national businesses.
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He’s passionate in all things he does. He rarely get involved unless he can be “all-in”.
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Ethics come into play for all decisions whether it’s personal or business.
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He tries to experience as much of life as he can. He’s extremely relational. He’s traveled the world. He’s a pilot with multiple ratings. He’s a diver and love learning about what’s underneath us. He’s lived all over the U.S. and in Russia. He has extended family in multiple countries. He has a farm where he goes back to his roots where everything else is a world away.
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He was one of those kids who always ask “why” and he’s never stopped asking. He want to understand why things are done a certain way and try to make it better. Anything he sees or hears about that he doesn’t fully understand will result in him spending hours researching it online.
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He’s an avid reader, especially of historic novels with factual settings. He loves to understand how people and things have evolved into the present day. He read approx. 15 to 20 hours a week for business, tax and casual entertainment.
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During the first 30 years of his career, he slept an average of 4 to 5 hours a day getting up early to run then read and going to bed late after spending time with family. In between, he worked an average of 10 – 12 hours a day. He’s now sleeping an average of six hours a day. Age thing he guesses…
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His mind never truly shuts down. If he goes to bed thinking about a problem, he frequently wake up with the answer.
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He treats his clients’ business as if it were his own. He is personally invested mentally.
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He loves kids and his heart goes out to any child without one or both parents. He have two biological adult daughters and took in several boys as his sons and raised them to be “men”. He’s also had several mentoring relationships with dozens of other kids and young adults that did not rise to the level of my “son or daughter”. He’s started several children’s homes and community care centers within South Africa, Thailand, India and Laos and served on the BOD of Kansas Children’s Service League as Chairman and in other various capacities and worked with Big Brothers/Big Sisters and various rescue mission organizations around the country. “No child should ever be or feel alone”!
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He has very strong religious beliefs which helped fashion who he is and how he treats others.
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He always want to be prepared in all situations to the maximum extent possible.
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Give him a deadline and lay out your expectations and he’ll get it done virtually every time.
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He works hard, plays hard, and always remember which one comes first.
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He understands that life is short but you live forever in the people you nurture.
