LENNY ZILZ

Vice President

Lenny has operational oversight over some of our properties and takes a leadership role in our consulting agreements 

He has been with Columbia nearly 20 years. Prior to that he was with the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company in various leadership roles including General Manager at Ritz-Carlton hotels in Rancho Mirage, Philadelphia, Mauna Lani and Boston. He was also GM of El Encanto Hotel in Santa Barbara, California.   

Lenny is a UC Santa Barbara graduate with a BA in Mathematics and a Masters in Mathematics. He is a competitive swimmer, having competed in US Masters Swimming in the northwest and in what was the Soviet Union in 1982, participating in meets in Leningrad (currently St. Petersburg), Pyatigorsk and Moscow. Lenny is also a garden designer and an avid cook. The best word to describe Lenny is: life-loving.