Great Gulf Group is bolstering its executive ranks with three appointments, including the hiring of hospitality veteran Jay Wong to fill the newly created position of president of resorts and leisure.
Corporate subsidiaries at Toronto-based Great Gulf include Ashton Woods Homes, the largest private builder and one of the largest overall homebuilders in the U.S., commercial real estate firm First Gulf, Tucker HiRise and H+ME Technology.
Wong has been brought in to lead the expansion of Great Gulf's resorts and leisure portfolio. He joined the firm from Exclusive Resorts in Denver, where he was executive vice president of operations and member experience.
Great Gulf said this year it is developing a master-planned ski village and luxury resort community in Killington, Vermont, that will span over 1,000 acres at completion. Its current portfolio includes Taboo Resort on Lake Muskoka, Ontario and two new developments in Collingwood, Ontario, north of Toronto.
In addition, the company announced that Corinne Pruzanski will be joining as chief legal officer. She has 25 years of legal experience and was a general counsel at Canadian Apartment Properties REIT for a decade.
Pruzanski takes over from Tom Griffiths, who Great Gulf said will leave the company at the end of this year after more than 12 years as chief legal officer.
In a third personnel move, Kristopher Wojtecki has been appointed to the newly created position of chief operating officer to lead Great Gulf's overall growth strategy. His responsibilities will include capital formation and portfolio management across all platforms.
Before joining Great Gulf, Wojtecki was at the Public Sector Pension Investment Board or PSP Investments, where he was managing director of real estate investments and responsible for guiding investment strategy, deal origination, acquisitions, asset management and dispositions for PSP's Americas portfolio.