Firm Founder David Siegel to Develop into Government Chairman and Proceed to Lead Companywide Strategic Route
Westgate Resort has appointed longtime firm government Jim Gissy as Chief Government Officer, efficient March 5, 2024. Westgate Resorts Founder David Siegel will stay Government Chairman of the Board & President and can proceed to steer all main decision-making of the corporate.
As Westgate’s Chief Government Officer Gissy is chargeable for overseeing all points of the corporate’s operations, gross sales and advertising and marketing. “It is an honor to assist lead this unbelievable group and work facet by facet with essentially the most proficient group of Group Members within the trade. I’m humbled to tackle this duty from my mentor and buddy for over forty years, David Siegel.”
Gissy joined Westgate Resorts in 1984 and instantly started setting gross sales data all through the corporate and the trade. Over the subsequent a number of years, he considerably expanded his administration duties, culminating in his appointment as Senior Government Vice President. In 1996, Gissy was the recipient of the unique ARDY Award from the American Resort Growth Affiliation (ARDA) because the Prime Gross sales Government and has obtained quite a few different trade accolades and awards over his forty-year profession.
Siegel, Westgate Resorts’ Founder, will proceed to play an instrumental function in sustaining the corporate’s imaginative and prescient of offering distinctive trip experiences and can stay concerned in all main firm choices. As he has completed for the previous decade, Siegel is primarily centered on discovering methods to resolve the continuing opioid epidemic by means of the Victoria’s Voice Basis, named in honor of his beloved daughter. “Jim has been my proper hand and buddy going again forty years,” Siegel mentioned. “Jim is an distinctive chief and I couldn’t be happier to have him assume this function at my firm. The long run for Westgate could be very brilliant!”