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NEW YORK • NOVEMBER 7th, 2025

Ian Schrager

Ian Schrager

During the ‘70s and ‘80s, Ian Schrager and his late business partner Steve Rubell, created Studio 54 and Palladium nightclubs. They soon opened Morgans Hotel in 1984 followed by the Royalton Hotel and Paramount Hotel. Schrager also received international recognition...
Isadore Sharp

Isadore Sharp

After founding Four Seasons Hotels in 1960 Isadore Sharp built and opened the first Four Seasons, a 125-room motor hotel in Toronto in 1961. In 2009, Sharp summarized his experience and business philosophy in a book Four Seasons: The Story of a Business Philosophy....

Philippe Starck

Philippe Starck jump-started his career by designing two nightclub interiors in Paris in the 1970s. Two years later, Starck designed the interior of the Café Costes, Paris. He created elegant interiors for the Royalton and Paramount hotels in New York, the Delano in...
Stephen Starr

Stephen Starr

Owner of Starr Restaurants, Stephen Starr started in the restaurant industry at age 21 when he opened Grand Mom Minnie’s followed by Stars and Riply Music Hall. Eventually, he began the Concert Company, bringing large-scale stadium acts to Philadelphia. In 1990, after...
Keith Youngquist

Keith Youngquist

After graduating from the University of Illinois, Youngquist co-founded Aumiller Youngquist, P.C. While at AYPC, Youngquist along with his partner Bill Aumiller received the Platinum Circle Award for lifetime achievement in hospitality design. Younquist started Dacre...