David Southworth

David Southworth is the principal, president and CEO of Southworth Development LLC, which specializes in the creation of residential resort and hospitality-branded real estate communities and is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts. He is committed to fostering a working environment that not only requires unrelenting goodwill, but embraces dignity for all. Southworth was a founder of Willowbend Development, a predecessor hospitality development and management firm, where he served as president and CEO. His career in hospitality and development began with Hyatt Hotels in San Francisco and then with the Pompano Beach Club in Bermuda. Southworth has served as a trustee of the Cornell Hotel Society Foundation, Inc., is chairman of the Willowbend Children’s Charity, and serves as the co-host—with business partner Joe Deitch and golfer Jack Nicklaus—of the annual Creighton Farms Invitational, which raises money for children’s causes. He is a graduate of Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration.