Stephen J. Cloobeck

Stephen J. Cloobeck is the founder and former CEO and chairman of Diamond Resorts International—a business that grew to become the second-largest vacation ownership company. A busboy turned entrepreneur with more than thirty years’ experience across every aspect of hospitality, he is the former chairman of the State of Nevada Athletic Commission. Cloobeck was appointed by former Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to serve as the inaugural chairman of the board of Brand USA Inc., a US government-formed nonprofit corporation with the sole mission of promoting travel to the United States. In 2004, he was appointed by former Governor Kenny C. Guinn to Nevada’s Standing Committee on Judicial Ethics and Election Practices. A native of Encino, California, he currently resides in Southern California.