Timothy M. Whitehead, CHA
Director of Asset Management Services

With over 30 years of international hotel experience, Timothy Whitehead has been associated with hotels in different countries around the world such as France, England, and Denmark and has been in Canada for the past 20 years managing hotels in numerous cities including Montreal, Winnipeg, Ottawa and Toronto. These experiences have provided Timothy the opportunity to become fluent in French and able to communicate in both Danish and German.

Timothy Whitehead started his hotel career by completing a management training program at the Savoy Hotel in London. Upon graduating, Timothy joined Trust House Forte Hotels in London as the Operations Manager at the Cavendish Hotel and later at the Brown's Hotel another Trust House property. Timothy then joined Westin Hotels and spent 15 years of his career with this International Management company beginning in Copenhagen, Denmark at the Hotel Scandinavia where he was the opening Operations Manager for what was then Northern Europe's largest hotel.

After 6 six years at the Hotel Scandinavia, Timothy was transferred by Westin to Montreal to become the Executive Assistant Manager at the Hotel Bonaventure. From there Timothy was appointed General Manager of the Westin Hotel Winnipeg where he spent the next three years. In 1983, Westin Hotels appointed Timothy to the position of Opening General Manager of their flagship hotel in Canada's national capital, Ottawa.

Subsequent to establishing a successful and stable operating environment at the Westin Ottawa, Timothy made a career change to Canadian Pacific Hotel and Resorts (now Fairmont Hotels) and became Vice President & General Manager of Toronto's land mark hotel the Royal York. Timothy's mandate was to modernize the operational structure and to oversee a major renovation program of the property.

More recently, Timothy has spent several years with a Canadian hotel company; AFM Hospitality where he set up their hotel management division and became Senior Vice President of that division in charge of the day-to-day operations of 15 hotels across Canada and the mid-western United States.

Over the years, Timothy has developed strong skill sets in hotel operations with particular emphasis on sales, marketing and public relations programs that have enabled the hotels that he has been associated with to exceed revenue expectations and bottom line profits. Timothy has recently been asset managing the newly opened Four Seasons Bora Bora on behalf of HIG and it's partners.