As a young child, Salim Sayani worked in the laundry room of the family hotel after school and on weekends. In the years following, he built upon this experience by taking on various jobs within the hotel industry, working in almost every position imaginable . It was with no surprise, therefore, that Sayani started his own hotel management and franchise company in 1998 with the intent of building a corporate team that would develop the operation into a leading North American brand name. Today, Executive Hotels and Resorts operates and/or franchises 18 hotels along the western coast of Canada and the United States. A third of these properties involve corporate investment.
Building On Experience “I’ve been in the hotel business for a long time,” says Sayani, who recently re-privatized the company after a stint on the Toronto Stock Exchange. “I privatized Executive about one and a half years ago. At the time I was an 80 per cent shareholder of the company and wanted to have more flexibility over how I operated the company. But the business model hasn’t changed.”
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