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The Most Luxurious Memories

Atithi is a hotel development and management company that delivers unique lifestyle experiences in the most revered locations. An ancient word that translates to “treating the guest like a deity,” Atithi leaves its guests with the most luxurious memories. The Atithi executive team is made up of seasoned professionals with a wide-range of global experience, expertise, knowledge, skill-sets and success in the development, positioning, operation and marketing of luxury hotels, resorts, residential and commercial complexes and destinations. With its founding members having international management experience in the USA, Europe, India, the Middle East and China, Atithi is well positioned to manage lifestyle resorts with international experiences.

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Visionary hospitality leader
Sayed M. Saleh

Sayed M. Saleh has earned a reputation as a tireless, multi-talented and visionary leader in the hospitality world. He began his hotel career over thirty-five years ago in his native Egypt after completing his college studies at Cairo University. Over the years, he has worked in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and China. In 1974, Mr. Saleh came to the United States and settled in Boston as the Managing Director of the Colonnade Hotel. Under his guidance, The Colonnade was welcomed as a member of both Preferred Hotels & Resorts Worldwide and The Leading Hotels of the World.

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In 2006, Mr. Saleh sold the Orchards Hotel and established International Hotel Management & Development, Inc.

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That year, Mr. Saleh partnered with Jin Bin ERA Development Company to develop a $1.047 billion new city mixed-use development in Tianjin, China. Mr. Saleh worked to assemble a consortium of leading international hotel and retail management companies to assist in planning elements of the enterprise with the intent of incorporating “world-class” luxury and service to all of the project’s phases.

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Thomas M. Anderson

With more than 25 years of senior leadership and accomplishment in the travel and hospitality industry, Tom Anderson has led brand building and hyper revenue growth at several major travel and hotel groups. 

Anderson started his career with Marriott Hotels; then worked for Four Seasons Hotels as well as Renaissance Hotels in sales positions, including regional roles.  Following a stint with the Greater Houston Convention Bureau as SVP Marketing & Tourism.  In 1990 Anderson joined Continental Airlines where he had a successful 11-year career, culminating with a 6-year run as VP/GM of Latin America and Caribbean with a hyper regional growth from $200MM to $1.2B.  

Following Continental, Anderson joined low cost leader Spirit Airlines in 2001 and spent nearly 5 years developing the brand, and his team grew revenue 4X from $200+MM to nearly $900MM before being sold. Anderson and his team led major system launches in CRS, vacation product, and revenue management as well as a $1.4B Airbus aircraft deal.  After Spirit, Anderson started Monarch Hotels with two partners, and they focused on luxury condo hotels/resorts.  At their peak Monarch operated 4 luxury resort hotels and had several in the pipeline.

For 2 years Anderson was EVP Marketing for SuperClubs Resorts group before they were sold.  The group had 15 all-inclusive resorts in the Caribbean and Latin America.  Tom then moved to Coral Hospitality.  With Coral, Anderson secured 5 management agreements, most notably The Gansevoort Miami Beach and the Margaritaville Resort, Hollywood. During his 4-year tenure with Coral Tom was both VP of Marketing and Business Development. While at Coral, Anderson also launched a new company website and drove an entire brand overhaul.

In 2011, Anderson was Chief Marketing Officer and Asset Manager for the Grand Lucayan Resort Bahamas, a 1,231-room resort with golf, spa, casino and convention center.  His team at Grand Lucayan increased revenue 52% and improved the P&L by more than 900% in turning around a struggling resort until it was sold in 2018. 

An avid golfer, tennis player, cyclist, Tom is the proud father of 4 adult children; as well he is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology.  Tom is an active supporter of United Way, American Cancer Society and the ALS Foundation

Terry Buchholz

Terry Buchholz is a seasoned hotelier with over twenty-five years of hospitality experience.  Terry was born in Big Rapids, Michigan, and raised in Seattle and had the opportunity to travel the world and live abroad at an early age.  Also, having a mother who traveled extensively for work, afforded Terry to experience hotels growing up thus influencing his professional career today. 

Terry began his career with W Hotels in 1999 and worked in a variety of roles over a six-year period, which included food and beverage operations, sales, catering and conference services, along with pre-opening experience.  In 2004, Terry transitioned from Seattle to San Diego where he worked for Destination hotels and resorts at Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa for nine years as Director of Catering & Conference Services, Director of Operations, and General Manager.  This is where Terry evolved and integrated more into health and wellness.  After Estancia, Terry spent three years with Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants as General Manager for Hotel Solamar in downtown San Diego and as Area Director of Hotel Operations for Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.  Terry Returned to Destination Hotels in 2016 as General Manager of the iconic L’Auberge Del Mar where he oversaw the operation for the property and spa. 

Terry’s journey of wellness is a spirited one and is what led him to Amrit. His vision aligns with the philosophy of Amrit and carries with him great passion for mindfulness, nutrition, and fitness and is excited to genuinely represent and share our mission.

John O’Grady

John O’Grady has 40 years of hospitality experience. John was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. John is the son of a real airline family his father was a Senior Captain with Aer Lingus, Irelands National Airline and a mother who was a Sr. Manager with Pan Am Airlines and had the opportunity to travel the world from an early age, all of which influenced his career choice

John started his career with Hilton International in 1982 and worked in a variety of roles over a forty-year period, which included Front Office Operations, Rooms Division, and Food and Beverage Operations.

John has managed Operations as far afield as, Sydney, Australia, the Far East, Middle East, and Europe to Include, New York City’s iconic Waldorf Astoria as Director of Rooms Division. Also included in John’s travels was London’s famed Park Lane Hilton as Director of Rooms Division.

John left the corporate world to work with Marbella’s Hotel Fuente as Director of Food and Beverage and most recently, his family-owned, Marker Hotel, Dublin as General Manager.

David Erlich

With 30 years of hospitality and spa experience, David Erlich has an extensive career history in hospitality management. Erlich has previously served in positions including program development and operations for Sandal’s Red Lane Spas including fitness activation and tennis programming and facilities across Sandal’s Caribbean-based properties including 16 Sandals Resorts and three Beaches Resorts.

He also had served as Director of Spa and Retail Operations for Glenwood Hot Springs Resort, home of the award-winning Spa of the Rockies, as well as Regional Director of Spa Operations for Fairmont Raffles Hotels International and Executive Director for Spa and Retail Operations for Grand Wailea Resort Hotel and Spa. David was responsible for all operational aspects of Grand Wailea’s luxury 50,000 square foot spa wellness facility. Under David’s leadership, this resort was rated #1 spa in USA 1996 and 1998, #1 spa resort in the world 1997, 1998 and 1999 (Conde’ Nast Readers Choice).

Additionally, his hospitality management experience includes working for Hyatt and The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Companies. A former board member of the International Spa Association, Erlich currently serves as board member and treasurer of The Balneology Association of North America (BANA). Passionate about health and fitness, Erlich lives what he preaches and is a devoted triathlete, adventure racer and surfer.

Danny Silva

Danny Silva has 17 years of experience in the luxury hotel/resort spa, wellness and fitness industry.  He began his career with Equinox Fitness Clubs as Senior Spa Manager where he assisted the company through rapid expansion of multiple locations, including writing corporate SOPs and assisting with multiple pre-openings.  Following that, he served as the Executive Director of Glen Ivy Hot Springs which welcomes over 160,000 guests a year and he managed over 300 employees during peak season.  He was a member of the Executive Team at Glen Ivy which created a Total Quality Management System resulting in the property being the first spa in the hospitality industry to become ISO-9001 certified as well as assisted with a corporate rebranding of the properties website, programing and treatment menu, resulting in record high revenues.   After that he spent a year as the Pre-opening Director for Diamante Resort & Residences in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.  Most recently he worked with Rosewood Hotels and Resorts as Regional Director of Wellness where he supported 10 spas internationally.  During this time, he assisted with the corporate rebranding of Rosewood’s Sense Spa across these locations and coached Spa Directors on increasing their revenues and KPI’s.  He has a proven track record of opening new locations and turning them into major sales contributors and turning around underperforming locations and boosting both top of line and bottom-line revenues.  He has a deep understanding of creating Forbes 5-star luxury guest experiences as well as creating Total Quality Management Systems to ensure long term operational successes for spas and resorts under his leadership.

Alison Howland

With a strong background in the wellness, spa, and beauty industries, Alison brings 30+ years’ experience to the projects on which she works. Her global spa/wellness development experience, as well as certification in Esthetics, Ayurveda, Aromaology® and TQM™, allow her to bring a unique perspective to her projects. Additionally, expertise in multiple areas of sales/marketing and technical and business education gives her the added capacity to work across organizations with a variety of departments that span both internal and external clients, vendors, and related business partners.

Her long-time affiliation with Aveda/Estee Lauder saw her in a variety of positions–the most pivotal when requested by Aveda Founder, Horst Rechelbacher to lead global spa development for the company. Her affiliation with Aveda/Estee Lauder continued as she launched various skin and body care products and developed the brand-standard for Aveda Spas. 

In 2007, Alison founded Spa Success Consultants, further supporting her passion for beauty, spa, and wellness and has launched spas in over 14 countries.  She has worked on a variety of projects, including Destination, Resort, Day Spas, and Medical Spas, as well as with Fortune 500 companies.

She is a regular contributor to industry publications, an internationally published writer and speaker, and has served on the Advisory Board for Green Spa Network, Touch America, and The Caribbean Spa Association.  Her current affiliations include ISPA, the Hydrothermal Initiative, Spa Consultant Initiative and Wellness Real Estate Initiative for the Global Wellness Institute. She is a sought-after speaker at national and international industry events, including Global Wellness Summit, International Congress of Esthetics, PHRA, and the Medical Spa Exchange.

Her interests include environmentalism, health innovation, and animal rescue. She enjoys tennis, snorkeling, cycling, and learning something new every day.

The Most Luxurious Moments

To fulfill this mission, Atithi will endeavor a hands-on approach to management. The Atithi team understands the need for attention to detail starting from the planning to the execution of a hotel. Atithi’s services encompass the full spectrum of hotel management including but not limited to: development, construction, asset management, operations, technical services, marketing, finance/ accounting, food and beverage management, spa and wellness management and human resources.

A Team of Dedicated Professionals

The Atithi executive team is made up of seasoned professionals with a wide-range of global experience, expertise, knowledge, skill-sets and success in the development, positioning, operation and marketing of luxury hotels, resorts, residential and commercial complexes and destinations. With its founding members having international management experience in the USA, Europe, India, the Middle East and China, Atithi is well positioned to manage lifestyle resorts with international experience.

 Sayed M. Saleh

One of the first to envision the potential from growing international tourism, early in the 1980’s, in cooperation with local industry and governmental marketing interests, Mr.Saleh led impressive overseas promotional efforts for his property and Boston as a destination throughout Europe and the Far East. As a result, The Colonnade soon captured the largest percentage of the City’s burgeoning inbound foreign visitor market and became known as “Boston’s Grand European Hotel.”

In 1989, Mr. Saleh was honored for his international service to the hospitality industry, receiving the Spirit of Massachusetts Tourism Leadership Award from the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism, recognized “for the style with which Mr. Saleh manages The Colonnade and for his unselfish contributions to the tourism industry.” The same year, Mr. Saleh was bestowed the Logan International Airport Hotelier of the Year Award from Massport for his continued leadership and contributions in promoting international tourism.

In 1990, The Colonnade was honored with membership in the Groupe des Hotels Concorde, a French association of hotels from around the world. Member hotels express “L’art de vivre” or the fine art of living and guest experience.

Mr. Saleh was also presented with the International Golden Helm Award from Germany’s Berlin Senate and Berlin Tourist Board in 1990, which is presented to those “offering the most effective hospitality, courtesy and complete service in tourism.”

In 1993, Mr. Saleh acquired The Orchards Hotel in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Under his ownership and stewardship, the boutique hotel quickly acquired the reputation as an intimate, charming and welcoming luxury lifestyle property, winning numerous awards for exceptional service, elegant ambiance and world-class cuisine. It earned membership in both The Leading Small Hotels of the World and Preferred Hotels & Resorts Worldwide. In addition, the Orchards was a perennial winner of both the International Five Star Diamond Award and the AAA Four Diamond Award. During his management of the Orchards Hotel, Mr. Saleh was honored as a leading global hotelier. Preferred Hotels and Resorts Worldwide bestowed the “Number One Service Award” to Mr. Saleh in 2000 as well as the “Top 10 in the World” Service Award in 2001. Both accolades are given to the hotelier who champions exceptional customer service and guest experience.

The Orchards Hotel and Mr. Saleh have been featured in several prominent publications including the Financial Times, Forbes FYI, Gourmet Magazine, QRW Wine Magazine, Berkshire Living and Travel and Leisure. In 2006, Mr. Saleh sold the Orchards Hotel and established International Hotel Management & Development, Inc. That year, Mr. Saleh partnered with Jin Bin ERA Development Company to develop a $1.047 billion new city mixed-use development in Tianjin, China. Mr. Saleh worked to assemble a consortium of leading international hotel and retail management companies to assist in planning elements of the enterprise with the intent of incorporating “world-class” luxury and service to all of the project’s phases.

In May 2008 through June 2010, Mr. Saleh was appointed as the General Manager, in charge of the design and construction of the Sofitel Zallaq Resort, Spa and Marina in Bahrain on the Arabian Gulf. Mr. Saleh was responsible for the Resort’s overall coordination from planning to final execution, overseeing the work of the architect, designers and construction contractors. His hands-on approach, coupled with his extensive experience in the global luxury hotel segment resulted in the project being completed on time, on budget and on strategy.

Mr. Saleh is now focused on the development of the Wellness Resort & Spa, and brings his extensive experience to mold this world-class resort. Mr. Saleh has served on numerous community, industry and government boards and commissions including President of the Boston Skal Club International; President of the Greater Boston Hotel Association; member of the Board of Directors of Massachusetts Lodging Association, Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau, New England Inns and Resorts Association, Tourism Massachusetts International, and the Saunders School of Hotel and Restaurant Management at Newbury College, Boston.