VMI International: Resort Consulting & Market Research

Leadership & Background

Chad Martin - Principal, Global Research

Chad Martin has led the Market Intelligence community over the past 10 years while winning 4 awards and establishing a new benchmark for real estate research and analytics. Chad’s unrivalled approach to uncovering both quantitative and qualitative analytics in a constantly changing environment have provided the most respected reports to financial institutions, equity groups, real estate developers, and consumers. His experience has led to supporting over $2 billion USD in revenue. Chad has extensive experience with some of the world’s most established players in real estate such as Smith Travel Research, Starwood Capital, Goldman Sachs, Bergstrom Capital, CBRE Consulting, Colliers International, Sotheby’s International, Prudential Real Estate, Intrawest, S&P Real Estate and Charles Schwab.

Over the past 10 years, Chad has worked in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Belize and Thailand markets from undergoing major market feasibility studies, a complete review of the competitive landscape and providing numerous recommendations on market demand. This research has allowed VMI to remain the leader in market intelligence in both established and emerging markets.

Orion Corcilius - Director, Capital Markets

Orion Corcilius has spent his entire professional career working on the capitalization and development of hospitality projects, with a current focus on cash flow and capitalization modeling and overall deal formation. Since 1999, Mr. Corcilius has been involved with the capital structuring, financial modeling, cash flow forecasting and cost tracking for over 30 resort, mixed-use, office, retail and residential acquisition/development projects ranging in size from $5M - $585M. In addition to capital markets achievements, he has also been involved with numerous $200M+ mixed-use resort development projects, hospitality sector feasibility studies, competitive and positioning studies and due-diligence assignments. He was part of a team who in 1997 developed, opened and operated a cluster of three luxury resorts integrated into Universal Orlando’s 5yr., $4B expansion. Additional to a central support facility and the three $570M, full service, themed destination resorts, the team opened a subsequent South Miami Beach Hotel, New Orleans Hotel and independently, a small boutique Inn located at Napa, CA. In total, some 3,500 resort rooms from ground up. With over 10 years of experience in hotel and resort development, openings, finance and capital transactions advisory, Orion is actively involved with mentoring students, college programs, furthering education and industry events. He is a recipient of all three Duke of Edinburgh's Awards, an international leadership in action program that rewarded his “progressive nature, leadership skills and outdoor proficiency” and a graduate from the Cornell University Hotel School where he concentrated in Strategic Management Operations and Entrepreneurship.

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