Meet the team:

Gary S. Derck  -  CEO/Principal

Gary and his Mountainsprings, LLC consulting company oversee community development, second/vacation home product development, entitlement, acquisition/disposition and strategic operating initiatives for both the Purgatory Resort/Durango Mountain Resort community in Durango, CO and the Kirkwood Mountain Resort community in South Lake Tahoe, CA. Gary has also been involved in strategic operational initiatives and development/redevelopment of Caneel Bay, USVI, Arizona Snowbowl, Flagstaff, AZ and Taos Ski Valley, in Taos, NM. He served for 16 years as the CEO of Purgatory Resort/Durango Mountain Resort and for 8 years as the CEO of Kirkwood Mountain Resort, Gary has secured approvals and led the operations and development of over 2500 new resort residences and 400,000 sf of commercial space in one of the largest and most comprehensive resort community portfolios in the ski industry. He has pioneered innovative solutions in resort/second home product, club & master association amenity structures, environmental programs, entitlements & approvals, system-built construction, financing, operational models and organizational structures. Previously, Gary served as CEO/General Manager of Loeb Enterprises, LLC, a master-planned community developer based in Reno, Nevada, which developed Coyote Springs (a 42,000-acre, mixed-use golf community near Las Vegas) and Wingfield Springs (a 1600-acre golf community in Reno). He was also the Director of Development at EDAW (now AECOM), one of the largest and most experienced development consulting firms in the United States based in San Francisco, CA. He began his career as a Vice President with EDSA in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Gary has a BA from Cornell and an MBA from the University of Miami.  Gary’s career is unique in that he evolved from a resort designer, to a resort developer, to a resort operator … and has developed/operated ski, golf and beach-oriented resorts in a wide variety of markets. He has pioneered a unique synergistic business model that allows operations and development to leverage the benefits (and mitigate the risks) of one another.  Gary currently serves as the Council Counselor for the Urban Land Institute’s national Resort Development Council, the Chair of the Durango/La Plata County Airport Commission and numerous local HOA and civic association boards.

JANET DERCK -  VICE PRESIDENT

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