Duane

Gauthier

Managing Director - Hospitality | Partner

Corporate Responsibility

As Managing Director of Hospitality with Commonwealth, Duane oversees all aspects of the company’s hospitality investment activities, development services as well as providing the leadership to the hospitality management teams for the company’s managed assets to include P&L accountability, excellence in guest service, brand relations, revenue generation, strategic direction and overall property performance.

Experience

Duane has extensive hospitality experience in a career spanning over 19 years, operating and providing property leadership for full-service and select service hotels for Marriott, Starwood, Hilton and Choice. His experience includes new hotel openings and renovations while working for both regional and national hotel management companies. He has been able to consistently improve financial results while building strong operation teams, leading to a number of honors and awards for the hotels under his leadership.

Education

Duane holds an Associate degree in Business Administration.

Accomplishments

Duane serves on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors for the Virginia Beach Hotel Association. Additionally, Duane sits on the Hospitality Advisory Board for Tidewater Community College and Bryant and Stratton College.

What Matters

What do clients value most after working with you?

The attention to detail we provide, the direct access to senior leadership, our transparency and communication. 

How do you help clients see opportunities others might miss?

We manage like we own it, we sweat the small stuff, and we live in the details of the business while leveraging our deep institutional knowledge of hospitality. 

What role does collaboration play across Commonwealth’s service lines? 

Speaking specifically to Commonwealth Lodging, we are unique in that, typically the Hotel Management Company is the sole business, we have the ability to capitalize on the overall synergy’s that exist between all our verticals which saves our clients time and money.  This makes us extremely adaptable, covers many bases for our clients, and allows immediate scalability.

What kind of people thrive at Commonwealth?

The entrepreneurial type, operating your business with complete autonomy, which speaks directly to the core value of owning it. 

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