ABOUT US

CREW Management is a private group of companies formed in 1996. Its main area of focus is Property and Hotel Management, and the ownership of the Absolute Spa Group and its affiliates.

Founded in British Columbia, the principals of the company are born and raised Vancouverites with a long background in the Hospitality Industry.

Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia

President, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, Absolute Spa Group

Lisogar-Cocchia is a hotelier by trade, as the Executive Vice-President of the Century Plaza Hotel & Spa for the past 25 years.  Also as the President of Absolute Spa Group, Canada’s largest and most luxurious spa chain, Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia has been categorized as a bona fide “Spa Maven” as quoted in the Vancouver Sun and Ottawa Citizen’s Newspapers.

 

Lisogar-Cocchia was recently named one of BC’s most Influential Women in Business, by the Vancouver Sun, for her endless philanthropy and community service. Sitting on multiple boards, Lisogar-Cocchia was the first woman elected to the Vancouver Police Board Foundation.  She currently sits as the Senior Vice-Chair on the Vancouver Board of Trade.  As the Incoming Chair for the 2011-2012 year, Lisogar-Cocchia will be the youngest female Chair in the 124 years of the Vancouver Board of Trade history.

 

Through her work and philanthropy, the energetic entrepreneur has received numerous awards and honors; including Canadian Food Services/Hospitality Executives Association Entrepreneur of the Year, Business in Vancouver’s Most Influential Women in Business, YWCA’s Woman of Distinction – Entrepreneur & Innovator, Variety Club’s International Corporate Fundraiser of the Year and the Variety Club Angel Award.  Lisogar-Cocchia recently received the Lifetime Achievement Industry Award from the Leading Spas of Canada, which is the highest in its class.

 

In 1987, Lisogar-Cocchia founded the Century Plaza Hotel & Spa Women’s Media Golf Classic, which has raised over $2.6 million for various children’s charities; with more than $1 million going to Variety the Children’s Charity.  Projects built by this fundraising success include the Vancouver Oral Centre for Hearing Impaired Children, the Children’s Foundation Centre, Down Syndrome Resource Centre, and now the Pacific Autism Family Centre.

Sergio Cocchia

Sergio Cocchia is the President of Crew Management Ltd., Vice President of Absolute Spa Ltd., and General Manager of Century Plaza Hotel Ltd.

 

With over 500 employees in the hotel and spa industry, Mr. Cocchia oversees a varied business venture with his partner and wife Wendy Lisogar.  These ventures include: Soluzione Spa Products, CREW Studios, Vancouver bc.net, etc..  As General Manager of the Century Plaza Hotel and Spa, Mr. Cocchia has overseen all facets of the renovation and repositioning of this well-known downtown Vancouver property and its award winning amenities.

 

Mr. Cocchia is proud to serve as President of the Board of Directors of the Mediated Learning Academy and the Variety Learning Center, a private school that serves special children with a variety of diagnosis and learning problems.  He is in his third fourth in this capacity.

 

Mr. Cocchia also serves as President of the Pacific Autism Center Society, a family led initiative to establish a “Knowledge center” for the Province of British Columbia.  This initiative has recently been supported with a land commitment from the City of Vancouver and a $20 million commitment from the provincial government.