Martin Gray has 30 years of operations, marketing and brand experience in the lodging and gaming industries. Mr. Gray is currently, President & CEO of CIG Hospitality, LLC, a hotel investment and development company and began his career at The Plaza Hotel in NYC where he rose from a Management Trainee position to become Manager of the Plaza. 

Mr. Gray's has extensive experience in the hospitality, consulting and turn around industries. As President of Forte Hotels, N.A., Ltd, he launched the Plaza Athenee, New York and subsequently lead the brand management of Forte Exclusive Hotels. Under Mr. Gray’s leadership, the America’s Division became the company’s largest profit center.

Mr. Gray has also worked with The Continental Companies in Miami, FL, as Senior Vice President and lead the launch of Carnival Resorts and Casinos which included the Crystal Palace Hotel, Nassau, the Bahamas, the Lucayan Beach Hotel and Casino, Freeport, the Bahamas, The Condado Plaza Hotel and Casino, in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Casino Rama in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. 

Mr. Gray was Vice President, Sales and Marketing, for Holiday Inn Worldwide and lead the Brand Management for Holiday Inn Express Hotels.   During this period, Gray pioneered Analytic Performance Management measurements which, for the first time, linked hotel profit performance to hotel quality and guest satisfaction scores as well as hotel staff feedback indexes.  In 1994, Gray led the team that developed the hotel industry’s first internet booking engine.

Always looking to grow professionally and personally, Mr. Gray founded Leadership Consulting which provided operations analysis consulting, revenue optimization support and analytic performance management to companies in the lodging and airline industries.  During this period Gray worked with the Eastern Airlines Estate, Hawaiian Airlines, Pan Am II, Ginn Hotels and Resorts, Dick Clark All American Hotels and Resorts and the Radisson Lexington Hotel in New York.  Gray also became a principal in Agentware, Inc., and lead the product development of “Rate View” a lodging industry standard revenue management product. The following year, Gray launched SweetFare.com, the leading meta search company in India and China. Sweetfare.com owns the original and exclusive meta search patent.

Contact Mr. Gray and MHC: mgray@morrisseyhospitality.com