Michael B. Meyer

Michael B. Meyer, President, World Trade Center Nanjing

Mr. Meyer's career has been marked by deep experience in three areas of critical importance to the WTCA - international trade, hotel asset management and real estate development. Early in his career he was an executive in international trade development at the World Trade Center in New York, and later appointed the owner's representative of the Vista Hotel at the World Trade Center overseeing the operations of Hilton International. After spearheading the rebuilding of the Vista Hotel after the first bombing of the World Trade Center, he moved to Tishman Hotel Corporation and provided hotel development advisory services to the City of Miami Beach on their public private development of two convention center hotels - the largest in their history. Finally, he became involved in real estate development as a principal once he left his global position at Accenture to join his present company in New York as President. The company, founded by Taiwanese American immigrant Michael Lee, has offices in New York, Shanghai and Nanjing where they are building a 4.1 million sq. ft. World Trade Center with a JP Morgan fund.

Mr. Meyer's involvement in developing the World Trade Center in Nanjing has given him a deep working knowledge of China from a western perspective that would allow him to aid the WTCA bridge and build the Chinese market. Since becoming a licensee and member of the WTCA in 2008, he has been outspoken to alert WTCA members and leadership at its gatherings of the significant opportunities and challenges that China presents to the WTCA. To that end, he has been involved in the last few months in helping convert an unlicensed World Trade Center in development in Wenzhou into a licensed member; helping the WTCA strategize and pursue illegal licensing activities in China; and suggesting new approaches to this year's General Assembly in Beijing that would allow greater financial sponsorship and participation by our Nanjing and possibly other Chinese WTC's.