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Thrasher Hotels & Resorts International is based in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Our growth philosophy is based upon the conviction that maximum long-term profitability is the result of an optimum balance of financial considerations, product and guest experience, human resource considerations, and professional development. The policies and procedures in place throughout all Thrasher Hotel’s operations reflect this delicate balance.
The Company’s hotel and leisure business emphasizes the global operation of independent and boutique  hotels and resorts primarily in the luxury and upscale segment of the lodging industry. Thrasher Hotels & Resorts Intl. continually seeks to acquire interests in or developmental rights with respect to properties in this segment.
  • Thrasher Hotels & Resorts Intl. concentrates its efforts on the purchase and development of projects in targeted areas having a strong luxury presence and/or areas having strong sought-after destination characteristics.
  • Development and operational systems strengths are maintained through the hiring of key personnel carrying an extraordinarily high achievement level within their given field of expertise. Every management and marketing system is evaluated on a regularly scheduled basis to guarantee and maintain an highly competitive edge within both the local, and global marketplace.
  • Thrasher Hotels carefully plans and coordinates the number of new project openings so they may be effectively supervised and managed. This insures the level of quality and the continuity of service to our customers, a smooth and complete transition of ownership or new opening, and a reduced stress level for the properties employees.
We are extremely unique in the lodging industry in that our primary mission is to create value for guests, investors, and associates in each of our properties. We do this by developing an innovative, customized business plan for each property we develop and manage and then combining it with the sales, marketing, and operating resources of an international advisory committee.
Our luxury and upscale hotel and resort assets are will be very well positioned throughout the world. These assets are primarily located in major cities and resort areas that management believes have historically demonstrated a strong breadth, depth and growing demand for luxury and upscale hotels and resorts, in which the supply of sites suitable for hotel development has been limited and in which development of such sites is relatively expensive.

Meet Our Team

Michael K. Thrasher
Michael K. ThrasherManaging Partner
Michael was first introduced to the hospitality industry at the age of eleven when assisting his family after school operate their partnership properties by running towels and ashtrays and assisting whatever department needed it most. This was followed with hands on development and operations management with such companies as Hilton Worldwide; Wyndham Hotels & Resorts International; Best Western International; Extended Stay of America; Holiday Inn, and Choice Hotels International. He is now a thirty-year seasoned hotel and hospitality professional, and the Founder and Managing Partner of Thrasher Hotels & Resorts International, LLC. Michael has taken his nearly four decades of experience and training with and applied it to create a thriving real estate and luxury hospitality enterprise.
Michael’s management style is one with a very professional but relaxed, confident aura. He believes that to have a title doesn’t make one more important, it just makes them more responsible. He also believes you should always “Praise publicly and criticize privately.” Although his favorite aphorism: “I quit school because they had recess” suites his ambitious and progressive personality, his experiences have taught him that nothing important is achieved alone. It takes determination, communication, team-work, and the on-going efforts of everyone involved to make a business successful.
Now, after the rebound of the travel industry and an continuously upward movement of over thirty years of rewarding, intensive, and hands-on, limited-services and luxury hotel development and operations management experience, Michael now applies all he has learned throughout his unique lifetime experiences, corporate and management training, and formal education to pilot Thrasher Hotels & Resorts International, LLC to a very long and rewarding business venture for all.
Iwona V. Thrasher
Iwona V. ThrasherPartner & Executive Vice President of F&B Operations
A twenty-seven-year veteran of the hospitality industry, Iwona started her career in hospitality by attending a private hotel trade High School in Europe while still in her teens. During her five-year academic studies which focused directly on hotel and F&B operations, she also professionally interned in a number of four and five-star hotels and resorts with included a four-star mountains resort in Rytro, Poland, a five-star seaside Baltic Sea resort in Mielno, and the infamous Jan III Sobieski, a five-star hotel in Warsaw, Poland. She has also earned the highly sought-after designation as Certified Travel Guide and Planner for International Travel through the Poland Commission of Travel Guides and Planners. During her tenure Iwona has been in upper and mid-level managerial positions with Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts Intl. (Ritz Carlton-Chicago), Hilton Hotels International, and Marriott Hotels International.
Iwona has always been loved by her employees and supervisors alike and brings a smart, sweet, but firm empathetic kindness to her management styles. Her work ethic is insurmountable along with her standards of service expectations and unwavering customer service standards due to her extensive trainings in the four and five-star sectors within her European internships and long tenure with the Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts unparalleled training and career enhancement programs.
Continuing her education while working and raising a family, Iwona studied International Business Management at the National-Louis University-Chicago where she maintained a 3.7 GPA and Honor Roll standing. She then moved forward to earn a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree with an Emphasis in Management & Leadership from the American Intercontinental University-Atlanta, Georgia-Online Baccalaureate Program. While at AIU she carried a consistent 4.0 GPA, was a member of the prestigious Honorary Dean’s List and graduated Magna Cum Laude within the top 10% in a graduating class of 387.
Iwona has now brought her extensive skills, trainings, and valuable knowledges to Thrasher Hotels & Resorts, International, LLC where she will utilize them to oversee the successful F&B operations of all properties within the THRI luxury portfolio.