Gerard K. Cappello

Director

Gerard K. Cappello has been active in investment banking, merchant banking, project financing and venture capital since 1985. He was formerly with both Swiss American Financial and Euro American Financial Corp., two merchant and investment banking firms that operated offices in both North America and Europe. He also served as president of Euro American Capital Corp. Cappello’s early career experience is in real estate development and brokerage with McCarther-Burke & Partners, Inc. and Tenneco Realty Development Corp. Cappello has and currently serves on the board of directors and as an advisor to several growth companies. Some of these include: Coffees of Hawaii, Inc., Fibercamp, Inc., Boutique Hotel Group, HAI LLC, Voxicom and as organizer of the advisory committee to the Getty Information Institute. He is an active member of the Young Presidents Organization where he serves as the founder and chairman of the Malibu Chapter. He has been active in the Young Entrepreneurs Organization where he served on the international board of directors for seven years and is a past president of the Los Angeles Chapter. He is the incoming chairman of the board of Catholic Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles and is also a member of the USC Associates of the Marshall School.  Cappello earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Southern California School of Business, majoring in finance and business economics.

Marideth Post

Corporate Director of Public Relations

Marideth Post brings 11 years of hotel and restaurant public relations experience to her role.  As Corporate Director of Public Relations, Post is responsible for media relations, strategy, imaging, brand management and promotions for the company and individual properties.  She comes to the Company from Noble House Hotels and Resorts, Kirkland/Seattle, Wash., where she was Vice President of Public Relations, founding the first internal corporate public relations program. Prior, she was the Director of Media Relations for Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group, Inc., San Francisco, for eight years, specializing in hotel and restaurant openings, media relations, restaurant promotion, and celebrity suites.  She started her hospitality career as the Public Relations Coordinator at the Sheraton Hotel at Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco.  Post earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism, option in Public Relations, from California State University, Chico.