Meet The TouchPoint Hospitality Team

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Manzoor Hasan is Chief Executive Officer of Touchpoint Hospitality Limited, a Houston-based hospitality company. He is also the Managing Partner of Hasan & Associates, CPA, PC, a Houston-based CPA firm. He is the MBA, MST and CPA; with more than 30 years’ practice in accounting and hospitality industry, he possesses a wealth & wide level of experience in hotel development & management, as well as in financial advising, tax planning, & business counselling in both public & private sectors. Mr. Hasan has applied the unique combination of expertise to overcome clients’ business challenges and create strategy as well as opportunities. 

• Hotel/Real Estate Development and Management

Mr. Hasan is President and Managing Partner at North American Properties, LTD. His experience in hotel operations and management, franchising and branding, hotel real estate investment, asset management, and revenue growth initiatives is substantial. He has developed or co-developed a number of hotels in Houston, Beaumont, and San Antonio areas. The hotel projects are listed:

                  o Holiday Inn Express at 1960 FM was co-developed and sold;

                  o Holiday Inn Express in Downtown Houston convention center is currently operating;

                  o Holiday Inn Express at North Main, Downtown Houston (under construction);

                  o Holiday Inn at Beaumont, TX (a full-service hotel) is about to open up;

                  o Holiday Inn at Hobby Airport (a full-service hotel) is currently under PIP;

                  o Holiday Inn in San Antonio, TX (under drawing board);

                  o Triple branded hotel proposed 450 rooms, Downtown Houston (under design stage);

                  o TownPlace Suites by Marriott (under construction) is scheduled to open up by May 2018.

•  International Business Consulting

The major highlights for Mr. Hasan’s accomplishments in international consulting area are as following:

                  o Mr. Hasan has organized and co-developed a manufacturing plant of D.C. Power Equipment in Saudi Arabia then successfully negotiated with USA battery manufacturers including East Penn and Lucent to have a technology transfer project from USA to Saudi Arabia.

                  o  From Saudi Telecom, he has awarded and received a multi-million contract in telecom consulting business.

• Tax Planning, Financial Reporting, and Auditing

                  o Mr. Hasan started his professional career journey as an auditor in a regional chartered accounting firm in Ottawa, Canada. From 1979 to 1983, Mr. Hasan was employed with Oshman Sporting Goods Co. in Houston, Texas as a Tax Manager. He was responsible for 10Q and 10K related to SEC compliances. 

                  o He has worked as a consultant in business and financial management for a wide array of clients. He has planned the overall strategy to launch various protests in connection with property valuations. In the meantime, he has delivered the arguments before numerous taxing authorities in the state of Texas. Annually, he has saved the company $200,000. 

                  o Another aspect of his responsibility was to design and implement a computerized central banking system. The system has enhanced the efficiency of the company and generated a profit increase of $40,000.

                  o Mr. Hasan is familiar with government tax regulations and policies in all levels. As a seasoned tax planner, he has successfully improved many company’s cash flow position after carefully reinvestigated the previous year’s income tax reports. 

• Corporate Planning

In 1978, Mr. Hasan was hired at National Drug and Chemical Co. in Montreal, Canada as a Corporate Planner. In just one year, he has conducted internal audit reports for several divisions and developed a 5-year corporate plan for the company. Later on, his experience in corporate planning has extended to many different levels. He has directed the preparation of a Multi-Billion Dollar Company’s first five years business plan providing upper management and control of future expansion and growth.

• Bank Development

Spring National Bank was organized and started up with a completed formation of initial financial, marketing, and feasibility analyses. With Mr. Hasan’s coordination, the initial installation of operating systems and circulation of initial offering was also prepared. As a result, it generated additional $1,000,000 working capital of direct compilation of a comprehensive stock offering circular and saved $30,000 by compiling in house. He also has negotiated a unique stock financing arrangement with M Bank. Spring National Bank was later sold to Compass Bank.  

Mr. Hasan is truly a practitioner of leading by doing, he is also innovative in implementing business approaches which he has demonstrated his style of leadership in a variety of levels.