Pacific based hospitality and tourism executive with more than twenty years of leadership across Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Experience spans portfolio operations, complex destination assets, food and beverage, accommodation, brewing, events, entertainment, retail and community focused venues.
Jason’s background is strongest where commercial performance, stakeholder confidence, team culture and guest experience need to operate together. His work has included operational improvement, market repositioning, workforce renewal, disruption recovery, growth and long term value creation.
Accommodation, food and beverage, events, entertainment, brewing, retail, touring, cultural experiences, remote infrastructure and community connected destination assets.
Filter the timeline by leadership theme. The focus is on operating scale, commercial accountability, guest experience, culture and transferable executive capability.
Leading one of Broome’s flagship waterfront hotel assets through a change mandate focused on operational performance, workforce stability, labour discipline, reporting, commercial process and guest experience. The role operates under peak seasonal pressure, cruise visitation, large event demand and active community and market repositioning.
Led a $35M remote destination operation with 17 revenue streams across accommodation, camping, tours, transport, retail, fuel, food and beverage, cultural experiences, energy infrastructure and aviation assets in a World Heritage setting.
Co-founded a hospitality outsourcing business based in Dili, Timor-Leste, providing reservations, guest support, data entry and back office support for accommodation and tourism operators, with additional activity in hospitality importing and hotel supplies.
Supported portfolio integration and operational alignment across hotel assets during a short term transition assignment.
Strengthened food and beverage operations, supported new outlet activity and developed operating procedures for future scale.
Managed a remote Marlborough Sounds resort through a disruptive operating period, balancing accommodation, hospitality, logistics and track tourism.
Led the refit and repositioning of a historic hotel operation, upgrading guest offering, food and beverage and worker accommodation performance.
Managed a large resort style property in a remote Vietnam location with significant guest volume, food and beverage and experience led operations.
Directed the build, opening and operation of a craft brewery and events venue, including festivals, partnerships and international guest engagement.
Led a major Cook Islands hospitality group across restaurants, bars, kitchen operations, importing, events and tourism connected trading.
Built and operated a recognised fine dining business, developing commercial, people, culinary and brand capability from the ground up.
These sections turn the resume into faster stories, helping recruiters understand the type of scale, complexity and commercial judgement behind each role.
Current Broome leadership mandate across waterfront accommodation, multiple outlets, live entertainment, cruise visitation and large events, with focus on labour discipline, commercial reporting, workforce stability, owner confidence and community repositioning.
$35M remote destination operation with 17 revenue streams, cultural tourism, major infrastructure, regulated operations and deep stakeholder complexity.
Founder venture supporting hospitality operators with outsourced reservations, phone and email support, data entry and hotel supply importing.
New Zealand, Cook Islands, Vietnam and Australia experience across hospitality, ownership, resort operations and venue development.
APAC Tourism adds a current entrepreneurial layer to the profile, showing direct involvement in scalable hospitality support services, offshore operations, client onboarding, systems, training and cost effective service design.
Founded by hospitality operators, APAC Tourism is positioned around reservations, guest support, data management and back office support for hotels and tourism businesses.
The venture reinforces commercial thinking beyond property operations: service design, labour cost strategy, offshore team development, quality assurance, client integration and hospitality supply chain activity.
Hire for capability. Hire for character. Hire for growth. Then teach the context.
A recent LinkedIn post questioning whether leaders make recruitment harder by chasing the safest looking CV, rather than looking properly at judgement, curiosity, resilience and the human being in front of them.
Jason reflects on interviewing a Chief Engineer with a teaching background and draws the link to broader hiring decisions: once technical non-negotiables are understood, the real question is who the person becomes when pressure arrives.
A CV is not a person. It is only a summary of where someone has been.
Based in Broome, Western Australia. Open to senior leadership conversations across hospitality, tourism, destination assets, portfolio operations, transformation mandates, founder ventures and complex stakeholder environments.