Person to Watch: Alan Fuerstman Chief executive, Montage Hotels & Resorts

Now entering the fourth year as head of his own hotel management company, Alan Fuerstman made strides and hit some bumps on the development front in the past year.

Fuerstman, chief executive of Montage Hotels & Resorts, had a good year with his key holding: the Montage Resort & Spa in Laguna Beach.

This year the resort's Spa Montage earned the first-and only-five-star spa rating from Mobil Travel Guide. The resort again earned a four-star rating from Mobil Travel Guide for 2006.

Last November, readers of Cond Nast Traveler ranked the Montage Resort & Spa the No. 2 U.S. resort.

The Montage was featured in Spa Finder magazine, Gentry Magazine and House Beautiful, among others, in 2005.