Philippe Bourguignon

Vice Chairman, Revolution Places

Philippe Bourguignon is vice chairman of Revolution Places, a company that is creating a new model for travel and tourism that promotes and encourages a healthy lifestyle and establishes a consumer brand that reflects those values. Revolution's resorts approach is to create unique, authentic experiences that can become treasured memories that last a lifetime - and build large businesses in the process.

In addition to Philippe’s leadership of Revolution Places, he also serves as the CEO of two of Revolution companies. Since June of 2011, Philippe has served as the CEO of Exclusive Resorts, the leading Luxury Vacation and Destination Residence Club, based in Denver, Colorado. After selling more than $1 billion in memberships, Exclusive Resorts has 3,300 satisfied members and has delivered more than 125,000 unforgettable vacations. In addition, since January of 2009, Philippe has served as the CEO of the Miraval Resort, the highly acclaimed resort and award-winning spa located near the Santa Catalina Mountains in northern Tucson, Arizona. For 16 years, Miraval has built its programming around the concept of Life in Balance™.

Prior to joining Revolution Places, Philippe was co-CEO of the Davos-based World Economic Forum in 2003, 2004. Previously, as chairman and CEO of Club Mediterranee, Philippe was widely credited with a comprehensive turnaround of the company in 2000. The change included refocusing the brand, revamping operations and restoring competitiveness, implementing an innovative pricing policy and completely overhauling the management culture.

Beginning in 1988, Philippe worked with Disney in several capacities, including executive vice president of Disney Europe, and chairman and CEO of Euro Disney. As the head of Euro Disney, Philippe led a far-reaching corporate restructuring which restored the company on solid financial footing and achieved operating results far ahead of market expectations.

Previously Philippe spent 14 years with the Accor group, one of the largest hotel groups in the world. He initially served as vice president of Development for Asia/Middle East and executive vice president of North America. He was eventually promoted to president of Accor for the Asia/Pacific region. Philippe was educated at the International school, rejoining the French system in 1965. He has a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Aix-en-Provence and holds a post-graduate diploma from the Institut d'Administration des Enterprises (IAE) in Paris.

Philippe has been named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and Officer in the Ordre National du Mérite, and received the Moroccan Wissam Al Alaoui Order.