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CEO Video Webcast with
Broughton Hospitality Group CEO Larry Broughton
About Broughton Hospitality Group
Broughton Hospitality offers a family of boutique hotels whose design and ambience celebrates the uniqueness of their cultures and locales throughout California and Indonesia. Broughton Hospitality operates and represents hotels in the following unique destinations: San Simeon, Lake County, Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, Palm Desert in California and Ubud and Bali in Indonesia. Founded in 2001, Broughton Hospitality Group is an innovative full-service hospitality management, consulting and development organization dedicated to Inspiring Significance and Distinction. BHG is committed to creating environments that are upbeat and fun, and where honesty, integrity and ethics matter.
About Larry Broughton, Founder & CEO
In January 2001, Larry Broughton founded Huntington Beach, CA-based Broughton Hospitality Group, Inca comprehensive management, representation, and development group, specializing in the hospitality industry. During the worst two and-a-half years the hospitality industry had experienced since before World War II, Larry led Broughton through the acquisition of four hotel properties. The Broughton portfolio currently includes nearly twenty hospitality projects throughout California. Larry is an experienced, upbeat leader skilled in building companies and organizations.
In 1999, Larry stepped down from his fast track, day-to-day involvement as senior Vice President & Partner of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, California's largest and fastest growing independent hospitality company, to move to southern California, open a restaurant, and form his own hotel management company. During his thirteen-year tenure with Joie de Vivre, the organization grew by more than 100% per year, managing more than $100 million in assets, and was named among the top four boutique hospitality companies in the US by Travel Agent Magazine.
Since forming Broughton Hospitality Group, Larry's creative approach to business has been featured in news articles and on television and radio nationwide. Nation's Restaurant News says Larry is "unconventional, and shares sensibility that is equal parts California 'beach bum' and entrepreneur." The Santa Barbara News Press calls him "quick-witted and highly-intelligent," and an "energetic business phenom." National Public Radio's Weekend Edition says "Larry is a hotelier and restaurateur, but most of all, an optimistic innovator." Maverick CEO and advertising guru Donny Deutsch, Host of CNBC's The Big Idea, calls Larry "a phenomenally successful entrepreneur."
Larry's notably diverse background is highlighted by service as a Staff Sergeant in the US Army Green Berets, a Black Belt in karate, extensive studies in Political Science, and involvement with the World Affairs Council and the Commonwealth Club. Larry is a General Partner or Managing Member of several hospitality projects and has served on the Advisory Board for the Hotel & Restaurant Management Program at City College of San Francisco. He has also served on the Board of Big Brother/Big Sisters and has been involved with various merchant associations and veteran rights organizations. He is currently a member of the Board for the Huntington Beach Convention & Visitors Bureau and of BBL Forum, a group of CEO's who work together to build extraordinary companies. In June 2006, he earned Ernst and Young's prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Larry lives in Irvine, CA with his wife, Suzanne; daughter, Emily; and son, Ben. He has attended the Executive Program at prestigious Stanford University; studied Russian at the world-renowned Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California; and studied Political Science at University of California, Santa Barbara.
Click here to visit the official Broughton Hospitality Group Website.
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