Michael S. Gallegos, Co-Founder, CEO and President of American Property Management Corporation (APMC) will be the featured speaker at the first Anderson School of Management's Distinguished CEO Lecture Series. On Thursday, April 24, Gallegos will discuss the pitfalls of growing your business too quickly in his talk titled, "Entrepreneurship: The Challenges of Growth." The lecture begins at 6 p.m. in the Paul R. Jackson Student Center on the UNM campus.
Photo: Michael S. Gallegos
Gallegos, who co-founded APMC in 1990, has acquired 50 hotels from coast to coast and focuses on purchasing nonperforming and underperforming hotels and transforming them into successful properties through state-of- the-art financial systems, innovative food and beverage concepts, preventative maintenance, human resources support and creative sales and marketing solutions.
In 2004 Gallegos, a New Mexico native and a UNM graduate, earned the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for creating in only 14 years one of the nation's largest and fastest growing independent hotel companies. APMC owns 45 hotels and resorts located coast to coast with 13,550 rooms, 5,500 employees, and generating more than $400 million in annual revenues. Eight of the APMC properties are located here in New Mexico.
The lecture is free and open to the public, however, due to limited seating reservations are required. RSVP via email to rsvp@mgt.unm.edu or call
(505) 277-6413.