Lighthouse Lodging Group’s (“LLG”) management team consists of executives with a combined total of over 100 years of hospitality experience.
LLG’s executives have worked with all the well respected brands in North America, including Marriott, Hilton, Embassy Suites, Hyatt, Sheraton, Hawthorn Suites, Crown Plaza, Ramada.
The executive team also has exceptional relationships with the various brand management executives.
With a Master’s degree in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science degree and over 30 years of progressive managerial experience in the hospitality and service industries, Mr. Cryan brings extensive expertise to the LLG Management Team. He has hotel operations experience both domestically and internationally. Achieved goals through strategic visioning and tactical implementation of various Sales and Marketing, Finance and Operations Programs.
Prior to co-founding Lighthouse Lodging Group, Mr. Cryan served as the President and COO for Windsor Capital Group for eight years. He has developed and implemented Corporate Sales Programs which provide direct sales for large multi-property customers, meeting planners and travel agents. Established centralized Revenue Management Programs to support the development of property level business plans; individual property level goals and policies, training and mentoring of the sales teams. During his tenure, the Company doubled in size in terms of rooms under management and total revenues.
Mr. Cryan was the Co-Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of Homestead Village. Some of his achievements while at Homestead Village include the creation of an operating infrastructure that grew the company from 27 properties in 5 states to 126 properties in 28 states. Increased revenue from $33 million in 1996 to $240 million in 1999. Centralized all highly technical hotel functions as well as the implementation of a centralized electronic reservations and sales system which resulted in more than $11 million in revenue booked in the first year.
During his 17 years associated with ITT Sheraton he served as the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Board member, Vice President, Director of Asset Management and Acquisitions, and Vice President-Director of Operations North America East. Conducted extensive analysis of the potential acquisition of hotels, resorts, casinos and joint ventures, completed 15 purchases with values in excess of $2 billion. Participated in development of the strategy for Sheraton’s entry into the gaming industry which lead to the development of casinos in Tunica, MS; Halifax, Nova Scotia; Lima, Peru; and the acquisition of the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, NV. Preparation and presentation of the annual Operating and Capital Plans, Five Year Strategic Plans to the Sheraton Board of Directors. Developed Financial model to analyze the impact of complex acquisitions on Sheraton’s cash flow and debt capacity.
Mr. Alonge has over 18 years experience in both the hospitality and property management industry where he focused mainly on finance, debt restructuring and tax and accounting issues and brings a strong financial component to the Executive Management team at Lighthouse Lodging Group.
During his 14 year tenure at Windsor Capital Group, Mr. Alonge oversaw an accounting staff of sixteen; was responsible for all accounting and tax matters for the company’s thirty eight hotels, four commercial office buildings and shopping centers, numerous corporations, over seventy-five partnerships, together generating annual revenues in excess of $300 million. Mr. Alonge was an integral part of eight major portfolio refinancing and restructuring projects, exceeding $1 billion in gross proceeds.
In addition, he was trustee of 401(K) plan for over 400 employees, signer on all bank accounts, and lines of credit, totaling in excess of $75 million.
Prior to joining Windsor in 1993, Mr. Alonge was the Assistant Controller for PMG Properties and in charge of all accounting matters for their 115 properties, fifty-five limited partnerships, three corporations, seventy-five bank accounts, and over forty certificates of deposit and financial instruments. Additional duties included, Quarterly preparation of cash flow statements, tax projections, budgets, variance analysis, cash reports, and numerous other financial statements.
Mr. Alonge has a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Finance as well as a Master’s degree in Business Administration from California State University at Northridge.
Mr. Kerrigan is a 35 year veteran of the hospitality industry. His most recent assignment was with Windsor Capital Group where he worked for 15 years. He began his career with Windsor as the General Manager of the Doubletree Hotel in Walnut Creek which was converted by Windsor to a full service Marriott.
Mr. Kerrigan was promoted to Regional Vice President of Operations in 2001 where he had responsibility to supervise the operation of 10 hotels. In 2005 Mr. Kerrigan was promoted to Vice President and Director of Operations. In this position he had responsibility to supervise and to coordinate operations of all of Windsor hotels.
He assisted in the evaluation of operating results for potential acquisitions and was involved in developing the plans for an orderly transition to Windsor management.
Mr. Kerrigan started his career in freestanding restaurants working with his father in Wilmington, Delaware. He joined ITT Sheraton Corporation as a Management Trainee in the Food and Beverage Department in July 1973. During his tenure with ITT Sheraton Mr. Kerrigan was progressively promoted through various positions until he was named as the Director of Food and Beverage Operations at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel.
In January 1980 Mr. Kerrigan joined Ramada Inns Corporation and was named as the Director of Food and Beverage at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. Mr. Kerrigan implemented a comprehensive reorganization of food operations that resulted in the Food Department generating operating profits for the first time in the history of the hotel.
Mr. Kerrigan was given his first General Managers responsibility and assigned to the opening of the Renaissance Hotel in Springfield, Illinois in 1984.
Mr. Kerrigan went on to work for Stanford Hotels from 1987 to 1993 where he continued to progress in his career serving as General Manager at the Crown Plaza San Francisco Airport and the Concord Hilton Hotel.
Mr. Kerrigan received an Associate of Art Philosophy degree from Saint Mary’s Seminary and University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Delaware.
Mr. Goeman has spent his entire professional career in the hospitality business focusing on operations and revenue generation. He attained his first General Manager position in 1988 at the Beverly Heritage Hotel in Milpitas, California. In 1992, he was appointed the General Manager of the Embassy Suites Hotel in Bellevue, Washington.
In 2000 Mr. Goeman made a change in his career direction when he assumed the position of Vice President of Revenue Management/E-Commerce for Windsor Capital Group and was named Vice President of Sales and Marketing in 2002. Under his leadership, Mr. Goeman was responsible for all of the direct and electronic sales, public relations, advertising and promotional activities for this diverse group of 37 branded hotels.
Mr. Goeman created a National Sales team approach with emphasis on Travel Manager relationships and solicitations, which, over a two year period, doubled the number of national contracts and improved production from the various market segments.
Mr. Goeman was responsible for the development of a comprehensive Annual Sales and Marketing plan that focused on market segment strategies that included a specific implementation plans for those strategies. The action plans and specific results were reviewed monthly to insure that the strategies were on track while also gaining the flexibility to modify the approach for any segment that was not producing as expected. Mr. Goeman created standardized monthly reporting to track trends in the market and he created an incentive program for Sales Managers, adjusted quarterly, to target need areas.