Ralph Grippo
President
Resort Properties
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Ralph Grippo is president of Irvine Company Resort Properties.
Mr. Grippo joined the Irvine Company in 2007 and oversees all operational aspects of the Irvine Company’s growing portfolio of resort holdings. These include The Resort at Pelican Hill®, a 332-room luxury resort with two 18-hole Tom Fazio courses in Newport Coast®; Island Hotel Newport Beach®, a 295-room luxury hotel; the 536-room Hyatt Regency Irvine; Oak Creek Golf Club® in Irvine; and approximately 500 boat slips at five marinas.
Mr. Grippo has worked in the luxury resort industry for more than two decades, including 17 years with The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company. Most recently, he was Ritz-Carlton’s vice president and area general manager for China, responsible for seven luxury hotels with approximately 2,600 rooms and as general manager of the company’s China flagship, The Portman Ritz-Carlton in Shanghai.
Previously, Mr. Grippo was vice president and area general manager at The Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel & Spa in Pasadena, where he was responsible for the company’s hotels in Southern California and Hawaii. In addition to these posts, he has vast experience in his 25 years in hospitality, holding senior management positions in various locations such as Japan, Los Angeles, New York, Boston and Puerto Rico.
Mr. Grippo has a Bachelor of Science degree in hotel and restaurant management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The Irvine Company is a 140-year-old privately held company known throughout the world as a best-of-class master planner and long-term owner, investor and operator of a large and diversified real estate portfolio. The company also is known as a steward of some of the most beautiful, permanently preserved land in California. In addition to its master-planned communities on The Irvine Ranch® in Orange County, Calif., the company also is known for its portfolio of high-quality investment properties -- office, retail and apartment -- it owns in San Diego, Orange County, West Los Angeles and the Silicon Valley. The company traces its roots to the 1860s with the assembly of The Irvine Ranch from Mexican and Spanish land grants. The Irvine Company was incorporated in 1894.