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Maddock has 30-year career in hospitality
HOT SPRINGS - Sean Maddock arrived a month ago to become The Homestead's third general manager in four years. He has been with KSL Resorts since 2004, and most recently spent the last three years as vice president and general manager of the Arizona Biltmore, a resort built in 1929, on which Frank Lloyd Wright had been a consulting architect.
He has worked as far south as Thailand and as far north as Anchorage, Alaska, but this is the furthest East he's worked in the U.S.
Maddock, 44, has been in the hospitality business for 30 years, starting as a chef's apprentice in the Seattle, Washington area at the age of 14. He spent 10 years working his way up to executive chef, and says he "cooked his way through school," graduating from Washington State University.
He followed college with a career at Hyatt, which included 10 years in Hawaii.
He has also served as vice president and general manager at KSL's Claremont Resort and Spa, founded in 1914 in Berkeley, Calif., and was there less than a year before moving to the Arizona Biltmore.
KSL also sent him to manage the Shangri La resorts, where he worked out of Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Manila overseeing several hotels.
"This is a great business to work in," he says. "You really meet some nice people. It's all about taking care of people, making sure they have a great experience."
Maddock and his wife, Maria, have three boys and one baby daughter - Ian, 8; Preston, 6; Collin, 4; and Fallon, 4 months. Though the couple has not yet settled on a home, they have visited Valley Elementary School, where their boys will be enrolled this fall, and Mrs. Maddock and the children will make the move to Bath in a couple of weeks.
- Anne Adams
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