David G. Hanna is President and Chief Executive Officer of Sun Resorts, Inc. and serves as a Director of RTK Resort Group, LLC. Dave Hanna is currently developing a globally branded golf-oriented destination club to be released in 2009.

 

Mr. Hanna was an original founding member of Star Resorts, LLC, now Star Resort Group. He has a 40+ year career in luxury resort property development with experience focused in Private Residence Club structures, second home resort property management, guest hospitality services, homeowners’ association management, and marketing and sales oversight.                                                                  

 

As the owner of Deer Valley Lodging during the 1980’s through the early 1990’s, Mr. Hanna saw the need for a second home alternative that allowed owners to better match their purchase with their expected use of a luxury vacation property.

 

With the launch of The Deer Valley Club in Park City, Utah in 1992, Dave is one of the three development partners that brought the original concept of the Private Residence Club to the resort industry. This successful program opened the doors to the luxury fractional resort industry that topped $2 billion in sales during 2005. Dave brings insight into the preferences and behaviors of Private Residence Club owners, especially in how they access their club ownership benefits.

 

Mr. Hanna is currently a key planner and strategist for Villa Verona, a Private Residence Club at Piazza San Lorenzo in San Antonio, TX. Other examples of Mr. Hanna’s direction of ski and golf oriented fractional resort/ private residence clubs includes: the NorthStar Club in north Lake Tahoe, CA; the Snowmass Club in Aspen/ Snowmass, CO; the Christie Club at Steamboat Springs, CO; and, The Cottages at National Golf Club at Village of Pinehurst in Southern Pines, NC.

 

Prior positions included: Vice President of The World’s Finest Resorts, where he was instrumental in fashioning meaningful program benefits that appealed to the high-end luxury buyer; President and Owner of Deer Valley Lodging from 1981-1994, now known as Deer Valley Lodging/ Premier Resorts, a leading resort condominium management company; and, founder and president of Warm Springs Resort in Sun Valley.

 

Earlier positions held by Mr. Hanna included those with Village Property Management, a division of the Sun Valley Company; Greater Park City Company Property Management Division; Yosemite Lodge, and; Club 33, Walt Disney's private club at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Mr. Hanna functioned as the Tournament Director of the Franklin Quest Championship, a Senior PGA Tour tournament from 1988 to 1992. Mr. Hanna holds a Utah real estate brokers license.