Fred Edson

Fred Edson Graduated from James Madison University with a degree in Business Science in 1989.  With seven years of hotel and restaurant work already behind him, he began a sales and marketing management career with the Five-Star Homestead in Hot Springs, Va. Over the next 15 years, Edson served in top sales and marketing positions as manager or director at properties including PGA National Resort & Spa, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, The Breakers, Palm Beach, FL, Kiawah Island Resort, Charleston, SC, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, Amelia Island, FL, Colonial Williamsburg Company, Williamsburg, VA and with Hospitality Consultants, Inc. 

His continuing education included The Ritz-Carlton Leadership Institute and countless training and development courses with his hotel companies and through memberships with professional associations such as the Restaurant Management Advisory Council for James Madison University, 10 years with the American, Greater Washington, and Chicago Societies of Association Executives, Meeting Professionals International, the Professional Convention Management Association and the Virginia, Ohio and Maryland Societies of Association Executives.  He is also a current member of the Realtors Commercial Society of Palm Beach County. 

Edson is married fifteen years with two children.  Edson also serves as a parish Usher at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Church, Palm Beach, FL, and a Volunteers at St. Mary’s hospital pediatric oncology unit providing golf lessons and other entertainment for children.