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Irvine Co. Names Resort Division Head

The Irvine Company has hired Ralph Grippo, formerly a senior executive at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co., to head up the Newport Beach-based company’s resort properties division.

Grippo is taking on the title of president of the Irvine Co.’s resort division, and will serve as managing director of the company’s Resort at Pelican Hill, which is under construction in Newport Beach.

The hiring comes at a busy time for the resort properties group, which includes hotels, golf clubs and marinas.

The Resort at Pelican Hill, considered the crown jewel of chairman Donald Bren’s holdings, is set to see its golf club re-open this fall. The remainder of the resort development should open in fall 2008.

Other properties in the division’s portfolio include the Island Hotel Newport Beach, the Hyatt Regency Irvine, and Shady Canyon and Oak Creek golf clubs in Irvine.

The company last year brought in Ray Jacobi to handle general manager duties at the 295-room Island Hotel. Jacobi succeeded Hansjoerg Maissen, who became a consultant for the company’s golf operations.

Grippo, 43, has worked for the past 17 years with Ritz-Carlton. Most recently he served as vice president and area general manager for China, where he oversaw seven hotels totaling about 2,600 rooms.

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Mark Mueller
Mark Mueller
Mark is the Editor-in-Chief of the Orange County Business Journal, one of the premier regional business newspapers in the country. He’s the fifth person to hold the editor’s position in the paper’s long history. He oversees a staff of about 15 people. The OCBJ is considered a must-read for area business executives. The print edition of the paper is the primary source of local news for most of the Business Journal’s subscribers, which includes most of OC’s major corporate and community players. Mark’s been with the paper since 2005, and long served as the real estate reporter for the paper, breaking hundreds of commercial and residential real estate stories. He took on the editor’s position in 2018.
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