John has 20 plus years experience in resort real estate throughout the USA, Mexico and Canada, Hawaii, Europe, the Mediterranean and Africa. Mr. Schopfer has worked with many outstanding resort related real estate companies as well as hundreds of individual resort projects. His broad experience encompasses products representing the best of timeshare, vacation clubs, private residence clubs, whole-owned villas and high-end private golf. John’s focus in the high-end and luxury markets began in 1998 when he founded Resort Capital Resources, Inc. and later CLUBworks International. These resort development services firms specialized in product development, financing, project start-up and the marketing and sales of high-end resort real estate and private clubs. Schopfer has been an active industry speaker and leader in ARDA (American Resort Development Association) as a Chairman League member and Trustee. Simplicity International is currently an ARDA Trustee Company.
Jude has 20 plus years experience in resort real estate and shared ownership in the United States, Asia, Mexico and Canada. Mr. Carrillo enjoys a broad business experience from management at the project level to executive oversight in all areas of development with an emphasis on marketing and sales strategies in private residence clubs and wholly-owned resort products. Carrillo was EVP, Sales and Marketing for Club Intrawest; VP, Sales and Marketing for Star Resorts and held senior management positions with Vacation International, Trendwest Resorts and other notable vacation ownership companies.
Ron has 30 plus years experience in the commercial, industrial and residential real estate field. Mr. Zimmer’s background includes Fortune 500 real estate and leisure corporations such as Brookfield Development Inc., BCE Developments Corporation Daon Development Corporation, Trizec Corporation and Intrawest Corporation. Ron has held senior financial and management positions in both Canada and the USA. During the past 15 years, he was a co-founder of three vacation ownership companies including Club Intrawest. Ron has a degree in Business Administration and is a Certified Management Accountant. Zimmer’s experience covers the breadth of, finance, technology, regulatory, program development and administrative/management functions.
Susanne has nearly 20 plus years experience in business and resort real estate ranging from management at the project level to executive oversight in the areas of sales, marketing, training and development. She started as a training consultant with Dale Carnegie, where she perfected her public speaking, coaching and facilitation skills. After starting her own firm, Club Intrawest, a subsidiary of Intrawest, became one of Susanne’s largest clients. Her training and coaching helped increase the sales revenue significantly, and – as a result - Susanne joined Club Intrawest as the Corporate Sales Coach and Training Facilitator.
Alex joins Simplicity directly from Playground Real Estate, the renowned resort sales arm of Intrawest, the leading resort development company in North America, bringing a track record of over 10 years of experience in luxury and high-end pre-construction real estate sales. Alex worked on the initial “Storied Places” offering on the slopes of Whistler Mountain in British Columbia, as well as The Lodge at Suncadia, a $70M offering near Seattle, Washington. Most recently, Alex led the Playground Whistler sales team in the sellout of the second phase of the ‘Evolution’ project in Whistler’s Creekside community.
Gina is a graduate of the New York School of Interior Design and is the scholarship winner of the Judith T. Collins Scholarship, it was the first time in the history of the school which was founded in 1918 that the scholarship was awarded to a foreigner. Mrs. Schubert has been trained by some of the worlds greatest architects and historians of our time. She has also traveled extensively and has studied in Europe with Dr. Hugh Crean of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Some of Schubert’s clients are Fairmont Hotels, Museum of Anthropology, Langara Fishing adventures, West Coast Fishing Adventures, New York Mortgage Co., Quest Oil Corporation, Solarice Wellness Spa’s, and E.F.G. International Swiss Bank.
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