ILX Resorts

About ILX - Corporate Governance - Board of Directors

Steven R. Chanen

  • Steven R. Chanen has served as a director of the Company since July 1995 when he was elected as an independent director. Mr. Chanen has served as President of Chanen Construction Company, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona, since 1989.  Chanen Construction, formed in 1955, is a premier builder in the Southwest with such projects as Terminals 2 and 4 at Sky Harbor International Airport, the 535-room Sheraton Hotel at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, California and the Midwestern University Medical School campuses in Glendale, Arizona and Chicago, Illinois.  Prior thereto, Mr. Chanen served as shareholder and director of Wentworth & Lundin law firm from 1980 to 1986, practicing in the areas of corporate finance and securities.  Mr. Chanen received B.S. and J.D. degrees from Arizona State University.

Wayne M. Greenholtz

  • Wayne M. Greenholtz has served as a director of the Company since April 2003 when he was elected as an independent director. Mr. Greenholtz is President of Nedra Capital, an independent specialty finance and consulting company which he founded in January 2000. From 1995 until 2000, Mr. Greenholtz served as Senior Vice President of Litchfield Financial Corporation, overseeing the operations of their Denver, Colorado facility until the company was acquired by Textron Financial Corporation. For twelve years prior to 1995, Mr. Greenholtz was Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Government Employees Financial Corporation, a subsidiary of GEICO Corporation that specialized in banking, finance and resort development, marketing and finance. Overall, Mr. Greenholtz has in excess of 30 years experience in financial services, with emphasis in serving the Resort/Hospitality Business. Mr. Greenholtz attended the University of Maryland.

Joseph P. Martori

  • Joseph P. Martori has served as a director of the Company since its inception and as Chairman of the Board since 1991. Mr. Martori served as President from November 1993 through 1995 and has served as Chief Executive Officer since 1994. Prior thereto, Mr. Martori was engaged in the private practice of law since 1967 with the New York City law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell; the Phoenix law firms of Snell & Wilmer; Martori, Meyer, Hendricks & Victor, P.A. (of which he was a founding member); and Brown & Bain, P.A. (of which he was the Chairman of the Corporate, Real Estate and Banking Department). Mr. Martori was a founder of Firstar Metropolitan Bank & Trust in Phoenix and served on its Board of Directors from 1983 to 2001. Mr. Martori is Chairman of the Board of MEI, an investment company that holds 16.7% of the Company's outstanding Common Stock. Mr. Martori is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law. Mr. Martori received a B.S. degree and an M.B.A. degree in finance from New York University and a J.D. degree from the University of Notre Dame Law School. Mr. Martori is the father of Joseph P. Martori, II.

Joseph P. Martori, II

  • Joseph P. Martori, II has served as Vice Chairman of the Company since March 2007 and as a director since July 1999.  He has been employed by the Company since October 1995, has been a Vice President since June 1996, a Senior Vice President since June 2000 and an Executive Vice President since June 2001 and Chief Sales and Marketing officer since March 2007. Mr. Martori has also served as Executive Vice President of Sales of Varsity Clubs of America Incorporated since July 1997, in which role he oversees the operations of the Company's Varsity Clubs sales offices. Mr. Martori also oversees operations of the Company's Varsity Clubs sales offices.  From September 1993 until August 1995, Mr. Martori attended the University of New Mexico in the Anderson School of Management MBA program. Mr. Martori holds a B.S. degree in Agriculture from the University of Arizona. Joseph P. Martori, II is the son of Joseph P. Martori.

Patrick J. McGroder III

  • Patrick J. McGroder III has served as a director of the Company since June 1997 when he was elected as an independent director. Mr. McGroder has been a trial lawyer engaged in the practice of law since 1970, currently with the law firm of Gallagher & Kennedy, P.A. Prior thereto, Mr. McGroder served as a member of the law firm of Goldstein & McGroder, Ltd. of Phoenix, Arizona (which he co- founded) from 1990 through 2001. Mr. McGroder received a B.A. degree from the University of Notre Dame and a J.D. degree from the University of Arizona School of Law.

Nancy J. Stone

  • Nancy J. Stone has served as Vice Chairman of the Company since March 2007 and as a director of the Company since April 1989, and as President and Chief Operating Officer since January 1996. Ms. Stone served as Chief Financial Officer of the Company from July 1993 to December 1997, as well as from January 1990 to April 1992, and as Executive Vice President from July 1993 to December 1995. Ms. Stone also served as Vice President of Finance and Secretary of the Company from April 1987 to December 1989. Ms. Stone is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Arizona. Ms. Stone received a B.A. degree in accounting and finance from Michigan State University and an M.B.A. degree from Arizona State University.

Steven A. White

  • Steven A. White has served as a director of the Company since September 2001. Mr. White has served as Chief Executive Officer of The Boston Financial Corporation, a financial consulting and real estate finance company, since 1974.

Edward S. Zielinski

  • Edward S. Zielinski has served as a director and Executive Vice President of the Company since January 1996, and as President and Chief Operating Officer of Varsity Clubs of America Incorporated since July 1997. Mr. Zielinski served as Senior Vice President of the Company from January 1994 to December 1995 and as General Manager of Los Abrigados Resort & Spa from December 1992 until January 1994, and in various other executive positions with the Company since November 1988. Mr. Zielinski has over twenty years of resort management and marketing experience in both the domestic and international markets.

James W. Myers

  • James W. Myers has served as director of the Company since June 2004 when he was elected as an independent director from July 1995 through December 2002. Mr. Myers has served as Chief Executive Officer of Myers Management and Capital Group, Inc., a management consulting firm he founded, since December 1995 and was also Chief Executive Officer for CMC Golf, Inc., from 2003 through December 2007.  From 1986 to 1995, Mr. Myers was President and Chief Executive Officer of Myers Craig Vallone Francois, Inc., an investment banking and management advisory firm he also founded. Prior thereto, Mr. Myers held executive positions with a variety of public and private companies from 1956 to 1986. Mr. Myers also serves as a director of China Mist Tea, CMC Golf, Inc., Landiscor, Inc., Science Case, and Involve Technology Inc.  Mr. Myers received a B.S. degree from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. degree from the University of Chicago.