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Building a Company. Resort. Lifestyle.

• Douglas Jaffe, III - Chief Executive Officer
• G. Michael Thomas - President and Chief Operating Officer
• Stan Barnes - Director of Recreational Business
• Jack Bickart - Chief Sales Officer
• Colleen Cummins - Director of Membership
• Mike Gordon - Director of Sales, Horseshoe Bay Resort Realty
• Rudy Guzman - Director of Facilities Maintenance
• John Hankins - Chief Financial Officer
• Martha Heagany - Chief Marketing Officer
• Glenn Lee - Director of Golf
• Michael McKeown - Director of Human Resources
• Marc Moulinet - Director of Food and Beverage
• Chris Rather - Director of Golf Course Agronomy
• Lyle Worthington - Chief Information Officer

Douglas Jaffe, III
Chief Executive Officer
Douglas Jaffe, III became Chief Executive Officer of Horseshoe Bay Resort in May 2004. Prior to becoming CEO, he served as Vice Chairman of the Resort. Jaffe also previously held the role of Vice Chairman with Jetran International, Ltd. in Madrid, Spain.

Jaffe resolves to continue pushing Horseshoe Bay Resort down the path of becoming a world-class destination offering nothing less than an exceptional standard of quality, service and elegance. With his passion for the success of the Resort, Jaffe brings a refreshing perspective, unparalleled determination, as well as many creative and innovative ideas. With his team of associates, Jaffe strives to realize the new face of Horseshoe Bay Resort.

Douglas Jaffe, III continually gives back to the community through involvement with charitable and educational organizations. Jaffe also recently launched the Kenny Lee May Foundation, in honor of a past employee and friend, with funds dedicated to improving the lives of children in the Central Texas area.

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G. Michael Thomas
President and Chief Operating Officer
G. Michael Thomas joined the Horseshoe Bay Resort team in March 2007 bringing more than 30 years of experience in the resort industry. Thomas is responsible for all resort and club operations at Horseshoe Bay Resort and serves as asset manager for the Horseshoe Bay Resort Marriott.

Prior to his arrival at Horseshoe Bay Resort, Thomas served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Barton Creek Resort and Spa in Austin, Texas for more than five years. He also concurrently held the Regional Vice President position with ClubCorp where he provided executive expertise and management counsel for an additional six ClubCorp properties. Prior to his time at Barton Creek, Thomas was President and COO for Daufuskie Island Club and Resort from 1998 until 2001.

Thomas' seasoned career includes general manager positions with Fisher Island Club off the tip of Miami, Florida, Hammock Dunes/Palm Coast Resort in Palm Coast, Florida, and Sawgrass Resort of Ponte Verde Beach, Florida. He also held leadership roles at Wintergreen Resort, VA and Sea Pines Resort on Hilton Head Island.

G. Michael Thomas is a 1974 graduate of Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina with a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science. He also earned Certified Hospitality Administrator (CHA) certification in 1987 from the American Hotel and Motel Association.

Thomas remains involved in the community and continues to serve on the American Hotel and Motel Associations' National Resort Committee and previously served on the Texas Tourism Advisory Committee.

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Stan Barnes
Director of Recreational Business
A member of the Horseshoe Bay Resort team since 2000, Barnes was promoted to Director of Recreational Business in 2005. Barnes previously served as Director of Jet Center Operations. The new position expands upon Barnes' management of the Jet Center to include the Horseshoe Bay Resort Marina, Bayside Spa & Fitness and Whitewater putting course and tennis facilities. His responsibilities include budgeting and planning, maintenance, staffing and overall management of the day-to-day operations of each amenity at Horseshoe Bay Resort.

Prior to arriving at Horseshoe Bay Resort, Barnes worked in the mortgage industry for more than 20 years and attended The University of Texas at Austin.

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Jack Bickart
Chief Sales Officer
Jack Bickart began as Chief Sales Officer for for Horseshoe Bay Resort in April 2007. Bickart brings more than 25 years of resort industry experience where he gained significant experience in sales and marketing in the travel and hospitality industries. Bickart oversees the driving of all revenues for Horseshoe Bay Resort, including rooms, golf, spa, marina and events. He works closely with all sales departments in the continued effort to increase group and conference business at the resort.

Bickart’s career began in 1973 at Smuggler’s Notch Resort in Vermont where he served in a variety of capacities that led to his acceptance of the Vice President of Sales and Marketing position in 1981. Following his time in Vermont, Bickart relocated to Virginia where he maintained a fifteen-year career at Wintergreen Resort, beginning as Director of Group Sales in 1984 and received subsequent promotions to Director of Sales and Marketing in 1990 and, finally, to Vice President of Sales and Marketing in 1994.

Prior to his arrival at Horseshoe Bay Resort, Bickart served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin, Texas for more than five years. Before joining the Barton Creek team, Bickart served as Vice President of Sales at Daufuskie Island Club & Resort in South Carolina from 1999 until 2001.

Jack Bickart is a 1972 graduate of the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology.

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Colleen Cummins
Director of Membership
Cummins brings more than 10 years experience in the club and resort industry to Horseshoe Bay Resort. She possesses significant experience in membership and resort sales. She is responsible for improving membership and member relations at the Resort.

Prior to her arrival at Horseshoe Bay Resort in 2007, Cummins served as the North Coast Society Manager for ClubCorp in Akron, Ohio. She has also held director of membership positions with Ocean Edge Resort & Club, located on Cape Cod, as well as Daufuskie Island Club & Resort off of Hilton Head Island and Sea Pines Country Club on Hilton Head Island. She gained additional membership sales experience working at PGA West in La Quinta, California as well as The Ritz-Carlton Members Club in Sarasota, Florida. In addition, Cummins worked at Barton Creek Resort & Spa from 2002 until 2004.

Cummins is a 1994 graduate of Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism.

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Mike Gordon
Director of Sales, Horseshoe Bay Resort Realty
A longtime resident of Horseshoe Bay, Gordon became a licensed Professional Real Estate Broker in 1981 and has since gained extensive real estate experience in Texas, having served as Director of Housing for Horseshoe Bay Corp. and Vice President of Sales for Horseshoe Bay Resort. Throughout the 1990's, Gordon gained international experience while managing marketing and real estate sales in Germany, Austria and Malaysia, for Horseshoe Bay Resort properties as well as Resort property on the west coast of Florida. Gordon's personal interests include tennis, golf and jazz guitar. He also holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Florida and a master's degree from Florida State University.

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Rudy Guzman
Director of Facilities Maintenance
Guzman joined Horseshoe Bay Resort as Director of Facilities Maintenance in July 2006. His responsibilities include maintenance and repair of the grounds outside of the three golf courses as well as facilities maintenance throughout the Resort. Guzman brings more than 26 years of experience in facilities engineering and management. He previously worked for Marriott Corporation in Houston, Santa Clara, Dayton, Cancun and most recently at the Horseshoe Bay Resort Marriott. He is fluent in English and Spanish and is certified in facilities management from the BOMI Institute.

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John Hankins
Chief Financial Officer
John Hankins brings more than 20 years of finance experience to Horseshoe Bay Resort. Prior to arriving at the Resort in 2005, Hankins served as Chief Financial Officer for San Antonio-based Jetran International, Ltd. where he purchased, sold, leased and operated commercial aircraft and aircraft engines. He also served as Chief Financial Officer for Tristar Corporation from October 1997 through June 2002, where he managed an annual sales volume of $85 million.

Additional experience includes Plant Controller positions with Rubbermaid Corporation in Winfield, Kansas from 1990 through 1997 and John Morrell & Co. in Arkansas City, Kansas from 1983 through 1990.

Hankins earned an undergraduate business degree with a major in accounting from Central State University in Edmond, Oklahoma. He went on to earn a Master's degree at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas.

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Martha Heagany
Chief Marketing Officer
Martha Heagany joined the Horseshoe Bay Resort team in March 2007 as Chief Marketing Officer. Heagany brings more than 30 years of resort industry experience in sales and marketing in the travel and hospitality industries. She is responsible for all marketing operations for Horseshoe Bay Resort, including the recent launch of charter jet service via Air Horseshoe and renovation of the Horseshoe Bay Resort Jet Center.

Prior to her arrival at Horseshoe Bay Resort, Heagany served as Vice President of Marketing for Barton Creek Resort and Spa in Austin, Texas for more than five years. Before joining the Barton Creek team, Heagany served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Palmilla in Los Cabos, Mexico as well as Vice President of Marketing at Daufuskie Island Club and Resort in South Carolina from 1997 until 2001.

Heagany's additional experience includes Director of Sales and Marketing for Quail Hollow Resort and Country Club in Concord, Ohio as well as Director of Marketing for The Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia. Prior to joining ClubCorp in 1993, Heagany led travel industry marketing efforts for The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida, the Westin Resort on Hilton Head Island and the Longboat Key Club in Longboat Key, Florida.

Martha Heagany is a 1975 graduate of Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications. During her career with ClubCorp, Heagany was recognized with a ClubCorp Super Star Award in 2003 and 2004 and a Leadership Award in 1998.

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Glenn Lee
Director of Golf
Glenn Lee brings more than 20 years of experience in golf operations and the resort industry to Horseshoe Bay Resort. Following a career in engineering, Lee accepted the Assistant Golf Professional position at Pecan Hollow in Plano, Texas in 1985 . In 1988, Lee moved to the exclusive Royal Oaks Country Club in Dallas, Texas, where he served as Assistant Golf Professional working under the 1996 PGA Golf Professional of the Year Randy Smith. Lee moved to Austin in 1995 and joined the team at The Hills of Lakeway as Director of Golf and Clubhouse Manager. The Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course received the prestigious rating of the “3rd Best Course in the State” by the Dallas Morning News Golf Texas edition in 1999.

In 1999, ClubCorp, Inc. purchased The Hills of Lakeway, where Lee remained for several months before accepting the Director of Golf and Regional Merchandising Specialist positions with neighboring ClubCorp, Inc. property, River Place Country Club. Lee accepted the challenge of converting the daily fee facility to a private country club. In 2002, ClubCorp, Inc. asked Lee to return to The Hills Country Club to open a second 18-hole golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus and Jack Nicklaus, II. Lee accepted the positions of Director of Golf for The Hills Country Club and Regional Director of Golf for ClubCorp, presiding over Texas-based Lakeway Golf Club, Lost Creek Golf Club, Wildflower Country Club, Fair Oaks Country Club and Barton Creek Resort & Spa. Lee supervised more than 70 employee partners, led The Hills Country Club to be recognized as one of the top five ClupCorp properties with regard to retention and member survey ratings and hosted the nationally-televised PGA Champions Tour and FedEx Kinko’s Classic.

Glenn Lee studied business administration at Stephen F. Austin University and San Antonio College. He maintains a connection to the community through serving as a board member for the First Tee of Greater Austin as well as volunteering for the Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin. Lee was also recently elected secretary for the Southern Texas PGA.

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Michael McKeown
Director of Human Resources
McKeown joined Horseshoe Bay Resort team in 2005 with more than 17-years experience in organizational development and learning, human resources management, planning and administration. Prior to his arrival, McKeown served as Director of Organizational Development at Durham School Services in Austin for six years and he owned and consulted with Organizational Change Strategies for four years. McKeown also gained experience as Human Resources Manager with Johnson & Johnson Merck, Senior Training Administrator with McNeil Consumer Products and held several management positions with Texas Instruments.

McKeown served in the United States Marine Corps from 1981 until 1984 and he holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma. He returned to school at Duke University and graduated from the Executive Education Program in 1994.

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Marc Moulinet
Director of Food and Beverage
Moulinet manages all food and beverage operations at Horseshoe Bay Resort. He arrived in 2005 with significant hospitality and hotel management experience. Moulinet received an Associate of Arts in Hospitality Management from Paul Smith's in New York in 1992 and a Bachelor of Science in Hotel Management from the University of Las Vegas in 1996.

Following graduation, Moulinet went on to work in Hawaii at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa as Food and Beverage Manager. He became Banquet Manager in 1998, staying in Hawaii until he accepted an offer to open the Elliot Grand Hyatt Seattle hotel in 2001 as Banquet Manager. After a highly successful launch, Moulinet was promoted to Assistant Food & Beverage Director at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix in October 2002 and Director of Food & Beverage/Executive Assistant Manager at Hyatt Rickey's in Palo Alto in 2004. Moulinet held the same position at the Hyatt Regency in St. Louis before accepting the position with Horseshoe Bay Resort.

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Chris Rather
Director of Golf Course Agronomy
Chris Rather manages the maintenance of the Horseshoe Bay Resort's three Robert Trent Jones, Sr. golf courses. Rather has 18-years experience in the construction and maintenance of golf courses, beginning his career as Assistant Golf Course Superintendent at Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point, Mississippi. Rather moved on to be Golf Course Superintendent at TPC at Las Colinas in Irving, Texas and he stayed in Texas with his subsequent superintendent positions at Buffalo Creek Golf Club, Castle Hills Golf Club, Lake Arlington Golf Course and Riverhill Country Club. Most recently, Rather served as Director of Agronomy at Boot Ranch in Fredericksburg before joining the Horseshoe Bay Resort team.

Rather holds a Bachelor of Science in Agronomy from Mississippi State University and is a certified golf course superintendent. Rather is also a member of the Golf Course Superintendent's Association of America.

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Lyle Worthington
Chief Information Officer
Lyle Worthington brings more than 11 years experience in IT and technology solutions to Horseshoe Bay Resort. Following graduation from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science, Worthington accepted a position with Skylist, an e-mail marketing solution provider in Austin and was soon promoted to Operations Manager. During his time at Skylist, Worthington was responsible for setting up, managing and monitoring more than 300 servers in multiple networks around the world. He built an operations team and developed procedures that significantly lowered operational costs and provided for maximum uptime and increased satisfaction levels for clients.

In July 2005, Worthington began working with Horseshoe Bay Resort and Jetran International, Ltd. as an IT consultant and quickly came on board full-time as Director of Technical Operations. Upon arriving at Horseshoe Bay Resort, Worthington surveyed and updated the existing infrastructure with greatly improved equipment and internet connectivity. He continually researches and implements software solutions that lead to exponential increases in business efficiency and interdepartmental communication.

Worthington was named Chief Information Officer in September 2006 and also recently joined the Horseshoe Bay Resort Senior Leadership Team.

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