Donald Bredberg is Managing Director of StoneCreek Partners LLC. He has more than 25 years of "hands-on" experience in the real estate, retail, entertainment, and lodging industries. He has been a senior executive for companies involved with acquisitions, development, and asset management, and as a consultant and owner representative to third-party client organizations involved with such matters. He has worked throughout the U.S., Asia, Europe, and North Africa/Middle East. He brings a unique ability to "get things done," having conceived, constructed, and operated diverse guest products including golf, hotel, marina, and entertainment venues.
Prior to StoneCreek Partners, Mr. Bredberg was Vice President of Location-Based Entertainment for Universal Studios Recreation Group ("USRG"). In this capacity, he led new product development, partner site site selection, and financing efforts for "next-generation" CityWalk projects. In his role at USRG, Mr. Bredberg integrated business units such as music and concerts, film, retail, television, and overall studio production.
Prior to joining Universal Studios, Mr. Bredberg was Vice President and Director of Real Estate & Hotels for the Al-Ibrahim family office (Al Anwae Trading and Al Tameer Trading establishments) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Over a five-year period, he formed and operated an asset management and development group responsibile for a $1 billion+ portfolio of operating and to-be-built properties. Mr. Bredberg managed in-house and third-party property management firms, for a portfolio including commercial and resort hotels, office space, golf course and marina holdings, retail, major landholdings, and residential facilities.
Prior to his involvement with the Al-lbrahim's, Mr. Bredberg was a Principal with Phillips Brandt Reddick ("PBR") in Irvine, California. While with PBR, he consulted to The Walt Disney Co., Santa Margarita Co., The Irvine Company, and the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles. Earlier in his career, Mr. Bredberg also held positions with The Irvine Company, where he directed financial strategic planning, as well as with KPMG Peat Marwick.
Mr. Bredberg was a founding member of the Hotel Asset Managers Association. He received a Bachelor's of Business Administration degree and was a W.S. Kies Scholar at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, with majors in Real Estate-Urban Land Economics and Finance-Investment Banking.
