As President/Owner of Interim Hospitality Consultants, Tallahassee, Florida, which was formed in 1994, Xanders provides Operations, Feasibility/Market Analysis, Yield Management, Food & Beverage Controls, Human Resource Search/Training, Pre-Opening and Renovation Coordination, along with expert testimony. 

Assignments have included interim management at seven hotels with successful completion of Quality Assurance Reviews; Market analyses of proposed purchase/development for three hotels; authored Feasibility Studies for a beach resort and over twenty-five motels; Recruitment of six General Managers; and implementation of Market/Yield Management programs for clients in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. 

Also directed all Pre-opening marketing of SouthGate Campus Centre, Tallahassee, Florida, a 268-room upscale residence hall adjacent to Florida State University. Developed the Marketing Plan and all collateral materials from logos to pre-opening video. 

His prior company was Cambridge Management Corporation, Tallahassee, Florida from 1984 to 1993. He directed the operations of the Quality Inn, Tallahassee, Florida; Desert Isle, Daytona Beach, Florida; Maple Leaf Condominiums, Holly Hill, Florida; Comfort Inn, Cairo, Georgia; and Holiday Inn, Bainbridge, Georgia. 

Two of the annual management contracts were extended five times until the properties were sold. Authored 14 Feasibility Studies and market analysis. Developed three projects for investors that included the Feasibility Study, engagement of Architect, General Contractor, Franchise (Holiday Inn, Comfort Inn, Travelodge), construction and FF&E coordination, Pre-opening Staffing and Operations Management. 

From 1972 to 1984, he was Vice President and Regional Manager for Management Resources, Tallahassee, Florida, along with assignments at Hospitality Management Corporation, Metro Inns Management, and Westbrook Inn Management, all of Dallas, Texas. During this tenure, he served as General Manager of the Tallahassee Hilton (246 rooms) from 1979 to 1984. Additional Hilton Hotel Management assignments included Hiltons in Macon, GA; Amarillo, Ft. Worth, Midland, and Abilene, TX; Wichita, KA; Albuquerque and Santa Fe, NM. 

He has a Bachelor of Arts in Hotel and Restaurant Management from Michigan State University; was designated a Certified Hotel Administrator in 1980 by the American Hotel/Motel Association; and is a 1990 Graduate of the Realtor Institute of the National Association of Realtors. He has guest-lectured at major universities and hotel schools while also teaching AH&MA Educational Institute classes. 

Ed holds two professional Florida licenses: Community (Condominium) Association Management and Real Estate Broker. He has published Management Case Studies in the Florida Hotel Motel Association Journal and the Asian American Hotel Owners Association Hospitality monthly magazine. Interim Hospitality Consultants has marketed its services in the national publications of Hotel and Motel Management and, continuously since late 1995, in Hotel Business. 

He is a past president of the Tallahassee Lodging and Restaurant Association, and Past Board Member of the Florida Hotel and Motel Association, Leon County United Way, and co-founder of the Tallahassee Area Convention and Visitor's Bureau. 

He has served as various committee chairmanships and as a delegate to the American Hotel and Motel Association, Georgia Hotel Travel Association, Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce, Florida State University Boosters, Springtime Tallahassee Festival, and Good Shepard Catholic Church, along with membership in the Asian American Hotel Owners Association. 

Ed and Judy have been married for over 25 years and have three grown sons.

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