LEADERSHIP
L.M. Pete Rowland, Chairman.
Pete has a vast amount of experience throughout the resort, resort real estate, and destination real estate sector. During his forty plus year career of development, management, sales, and marketing; he has created over $1B in resort and resort real estate sales activity. Projects include wholly owned properties and corporate clients such as Holiday Inn, Cendant, NASCAR, Hellman’s, Kahn’s, Block Pharmaceuticals, Jackson-Hewitt, Cape Canaveral Cruise Lines, Riviera Management, Sahara Management, Sol Melia Hotel Group, Ronnie Kovach Outdoor Expeditions, Westin, and Nanuku Auberge Resort Fiji. Pete, having been an innovator in the resort and resort real estate industry through its evolution and guided projects through various economic cycles and trends, is strongly positioned to lead Kona Development Partners and its subsidiaries through the investment period The Kona Estates project.
Andrew Rowland, CEO.
Andrew has more than twenty-years of professional experience in the resort marketing, sales, management, and development sectors. Andrew has also consulted on the formation of equity fund partnerships; giving him a keen understanding of both individual investors and the equity fund as a whole. Most recently, Andrew developed and executed marketing programs for the client, Nanuku Auberge Resort Fiji. He specialized in marketing luxury residential-resort properties and estates to investors and affluent clientele by blending traditional and digital-age marketing into one unique program. Andrew will draw on his experience as a past owner/general manager of a full-service hotel property, an investment fund consultant, and a luxury marketing director to execute his duties as a principal of Kona Development Partners and its subsidiaries.