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Susan Balerdi
Susan Balerdi has 30 years experience in the hotel and tourism related fields in North America, Europe and Africa. She is a former finance director, company secretary and director of development for Meridien Hotels in North America. Whilst at Meridien, Susan was responsible for development and finance.
She joined CDB Merger Services in the U.K. in 1986 and shares responsibility with Douglas Ronald, CDB’s managing director for the company’s corporate strategy. In Europe in particular, Susan has become a recognised heritage tourism expert, working for the past five years for the National Trust at Ickworth House where a hotel and conference/banqueting centre has been established and at the medieval Mottisfont Abbey reviewing its commercial facilities. She has also provided strategic commercial advice for the National Trust at the World Heritage Site at Giant’s Causeway and for its acquisition of the finest example of an intact Victorian estate at Tyntesfield, near Bristol. She has also worked for five years for English Heritage on over 50 buildings and private owners of historic estates.
Susan is also managing director of CDB Project Services, a property development company specialising in refurbishment of historic buildings for tourism use.
She sat on The British Consultants’ & Construction Bureau’s Leisure and Tourism Development Committee, the Prime Minister’s Sustainable Tourism Initiative Committee and is licensed by the Financial Services Authority to provide investment advice.
A published author, she has written two children’s books for Macmillan Press in the USA, the first entitled, France: The Crossroads of Europe (published in 1982) and Great Britain: The World’s Oldest Democracy. She has just completed her third book, The Sancy Diamond – Power, Greed, and the Cursed History of One of the World’s Most Coveted Gems for John Wiley & Son publishers (USA) (published December 2004). Her next book, The Pirate Queen – Queen Elizabeth I and Her Merchant & Gentlemen Adventurers will be published by HarperCollins in Spring 2007. Susan writes under her married name, Susan Ronald.
Susan Balerdi has 30 years experience in the hotel and tourism related fields in North America, Europe and Africa. She is a former finance director, company secretary and director of development for Meridien Hotels in North America. Whilst at Meridien, Susan was responsible for development and finance.
She joined CDB Merger Services in the U.K. in 1986 and shares responsibility with Douglas Ronald, CDB’s managing director for the company’s corporate strategy. In Europe in particular, Susan has become a recognised heritage tourism expert, working for the past five years for the National Trust at Ickworth House where a hotel and conference/banqueting centre has been established and at the medieval Mottisfont Abbey reviewing its commercial facilities. She has also provided strategic commercial advice for the National Trust at the World Heritage Site at Giant’s Causeway and for its acquisition of the finest example of an intact Victorian estate at Tyntesfield, near Bristol. She has also worked for five years for English Heritage on over 50 buildings and private owners of historic estates.
Susan is also managing director of CDB Project Services, a property development company specialising in refurbishment of historic buildings for tourism use.
She sat on The British Consultants’ & Construction Bureau’s Leisure and Tourism Development Committee, the Prime Minister’s Sustainable Tourism Initiative Committee and is licensed by the Financial Services Authority to provide investment advice.
A published author, she has written two children’s books for Macmillan Press in the USA, the first entitled, France: The Crossroads of Europe (published in 1982) and Great Britain: The World’s Oldest Democracy. She has just completed her third book, The Sancy Diamond – Power, Greed, and the Cursed History of One of the World’s Most Coveted Gems for John Wiley & Son publishers (USA) (published December 2004). Her next book, The Pirate Queen – Queen Elizabeth I and Her Merchant & Gentlemen Adventurers will be published by HarperCollins in Spring 2007. Susan writes under her married name, Susan Ronald.
